Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-29

pitcher, evidently, is being touted on
the outside to stick out for more
money and in the end he is sure to
lose and be out the salary he might
have drawn in the meantime. Such,
however, is one of the crossroads OF
life.
Besides presenting the law, Mr.. Eb-
bets presents the situation very thor
oughly.
| Yes / have suspended Aitohisen,
your Newark pitcher. because there
is no other course left for me to pur-
sue in the matter. had a talk with
him, and told him what I intended to
| give him-the full increase of Is per
cent. over his Newark pay He said
| he wouldn't take it, but he didn' t
name the sum he wanted. The young
man Is acting foolish in the matter.
He says he is a good pitcher and
wants good money for his work. I
said to him. that's just what I want
a good pitcher and I'll give him good
money for his services; but what can
| I do now when the law won't let me.
Aitchison will get all tho money he is
| worth if he works for me. Let him
go out on the field, as told him, and
show me what he can do. If, after
the expiration of forty-five days, he
, has shown me. why Aitchison or any
other ball player. will always find the
Brooklyn Club not only ready, but
willing, to pay good money to a good
man. Yet il he was twice as valuable
I couldn't do a thing for him at pres
ent. He will probably come to his
senses in few days and see where
| the Brooklyn Club Is not at fault. I
| hope he does and I want to see him
make good and he will get every cent
| he is worth If he does turn out a
| winner"
The impression seems to prevail
that someone has been tampering
with Aitchison. Another report is
current that some of the international
League players have been coaching
him how he could hold out and there
by get a more aliuring contract.
Then, too, the fact that Charley MUIR
ply, of the Chicago Cubs. offered the
Brooklyn Club $4,000 for Aitchison
may have put enlarged ideas into the
pitchers head. During the conference
between Mr.. Ebbets and Aitchson
ofn Mt
well, if you don't want to give me
what ask, why don't you trade me?"
Such a suggestion, it appears. had
a tendency TO get Mr. Ebbets's goat"
and the magnate is said to have re-
piled:
There isn't enough money to buy
you. Aitchison. IL you never pitch a
game for Brooklyn. You'll work for
me or you won't work at ALL I'm
willing to treat you like a white man,
and go the limit with you as to SAL
| airy, and you stand there and ask me
to trade you. Not on your life. No
other club could give you more than
l am willing to give you. and no other
club would pay you more than I am
willing to pay you, If you make good
for me"
G.
Aitchison. it is said. is around New
ark and some of his real friends are
advising him to sign the contract
with Brooklyn. If he makes good in.
they say, about forty days now to go.
he can talk turkey" to Mr.. Ebbets,
and he will come pretty near getting
a good square deal. AS Mr.. Ebbets
said TO me yesterday:
why, 1t pleases me to pay good
money to good men. Aitchison, if he
would go in and pitch and make good.
could come to me in October and put
1t right up to me. After October 1
there won't be any restraining law
and he would find that I would treat
him fairly. The boy is acting foolish,
though, and 1 expect to see him come
around before long. In the meantime,
he stands suspended"
O.
his mind positively not to sign. He
is to leave Newark some time today
for Columbus, Ark, where he is to
remain for a week. From there he
will go to Fisher, Arkansas, which is
his home.
Lew McCarty, the Newark catcher,
who was a holdout for a day or so.
has signed his contract, and he was
in uniform over in Brooklyn yester-
day. McCarty was also given the full
% per cent. increase. but he, too, felt
that he was worth more. After the
matter was explained to him he
affixed his name to a contract calling
for sum in the neighborhood of s4oO
He will be given good, fair trial.
Mr.. Ebbets said, and then, when the
time comes for signing a contract for
next year, he can talk more salary, IL
| he feels that he Is worth more. That's
the way it goes-always looking out
for the future. but sometimes. and too
often, really neglecting the present.
| c.
| A friend of George L. Solomon,
president of the Newark Club, rises
| to defend him. The letter reads as If
1t had been written by an undertaken
However. it has some very live
thrusts in IT. Read and see what a
great man the Newark Club presi-
dent is;
Aug. 2s. 1913.
u. p. N:
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1 I ran across the letter referring tc