Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-01

The Newark Baseball Club will not
be purchased by the Newark business
men who have been negotiating for
some time with the present owners
for the control of the international
League franchise in this city. This
conclusion was arrived at yesterday
afternoon at a meeting in the office
of Phil KrimlSe. The matter has been
dropped and the answer sent to
Charles II. Ebbets and his associates
Is nothing doing" as far as the
Newark men are concerned. Really,
although il was claimed in another
newspaper that the sale would posi-
lively occur, there never was much
TO the proposed purchase of the club.
The whole thing came up when Mr..
Ebbets said to Moe Reichman:
mir. Relchman, we want to sell the
Newark club to Newark men. We
will sell It cheap. Why don't you and
your friends buy it?"
That struck Reichman as a very
plausible thing to : do and he said
he would see some of his friends. He
did, with the result that a meeting
was called for the purpose of discuss
ing the matter. At that meeting
there was present one of those wind
bags" your hear about, and as re-
suit stories were published that
would have queered the deal even IL
the price was satisfactory. Some of
the men who were really honest in
their desire TO put money into the
club became Disguised at the pub
licity given the whole affair and deS
clared point blank that they wouldn't
put a cent in the deal. They won't
have to now, and no one can blame
them for their attitude. Some of the
stories published were malicious and
the whole intent and purpose of them
seemed to be to boost the price and
force the Newark men to pay an ex-
orbitant figure for the franchise.
Maybe it was done to pay q debt Of
gratitude to President Solomon, who
doesn't get tumble any more.
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l was almost positive from the very
beginning that the sale OF the club
would never go through. The story
that Moe Reichman, Phil I<rlmlse
and Tom Blaney were willing to buy
the club at q fair figure was told me
first, and was published in the Eve
ming star first. 1t was a hard blow
to Solomon and to his friends, and
George has been ignored ever since.
What made me feel confident that the
deal would not come to pass was tho
fact that knew the asking price,
about $124 900, was considerably mora
than the price the Newark men
were willing to pay, which was
$50, 900. As between these figures
there didn't seem to be a chance
for compromise. Another paper an
nounced ono day that the club would
be sold by nightfall, and the same
paper stated that the local men who
were negotiating for the club didn't
seem to think that the price asked
was too high. Then, too, some of the
pIOSptStlNo Du9 tio WStV aoOrCN iia ~
most ridiculous manner. Later de-
velopments proved that most every
thing printed in another newspaper
about the sale of the club WAS pack
of lies, and not single thing pre-
dicted has come to pass. 1t was the
biggest bloomer in newspaperdom
that has ever happened in Newark,
and it is the laughing stock topic of
the town.
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One Of the men who was interested
in the deal to buy the team said to
me today:
1--WE never said that we would offer
$4,000 for the club and then go as
high as 100000. Such statement Is
ridiculous and made us look like very
poor business men. don't know why
| so much attention was given to the
matter in certain quarters and why
| the effort was made to have it appear
/ that we We're willing to pay the price
! that the owners were asking. We