Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

team Will come around betOre many
days and almost pray to get in.
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AS regards salaries of ball players
and salaries Of say, department store
clerks, there seems to be big differ
ence In the eyes of some Of the great
writer's ON baseball topics. II a player
demands the magnate's residence for
a skating rink the scrlbes and the
fans will back him up to the limit.
But II some twelve-hour-ad day,
twelve-d ollar-a-week clerk asks for q
quarter raise and ten minutes extra
for lunch hour. the argument will be
used that labor is crowding capital to
/ the wall and bold stand must be
taken at once to stop 1t. A ball play
err in d way, works on the same
lines as clerk. He Is worth all he
can get, but he isn't entitled to the
backing of the. newspapers and the
rawlings of the fans to help him out.
any more than is the department
store clerk.
The salaries of ball players should
/ be as sacred as the salaries of men
In other professions, 1t Is not for the
public to say how much any par
tioular player should receive, and IL
1t was left to the public there
wouldn't be enough money In any one
of the mlnts to meet the semi menth-
ly payroll. The fan who works for
So q week will shout his head off in
order TO boost players salary up
to $500 month. It makes no differ
ence, either, whether the owner of
the club Is making money or not.
The player Is the thing with the fans
and 1t Is i'down with owner nine
times out of ten. Why this Is so
is mystery. OF course, in sports
there should be more or less lib
erallty, but there seems to be ne
justif1able reason why baseball
magnate should be forced to boost
salaries and lose money just because
! his patrons would have him do 1t,
and you will find, too, that those who
shout the loudest for others to boost
are the biggest tightwads In the
universe.
O.
To Cincinnati, Tinker, who was well
paid. wasn't worth thirty CENTS as
/ the saying goes. To Brooklyn, he
may be worth his weight In gold.
That Is the way OF the ball player.
But even that does not necessarily
mean that Tinker should receive more
than those who are going to pay him
feel like giving him. Tinker isn't
taking any chance of losing anything,
He will get his salary, surely, whether
the Brooklyn Club finishes first OF
last, or whether the owners make
money or lose money. The whole risk
Is taken by the magnates, and there
is every reason to believe that they
should be the best Judge of what they
ought to pay. 1t Is not for me to set
the wage Of the ball player, nor to
argue against his price, but the fact
Is very clear that In the controversies
between the owner and the player the
public and the press are entirely too
one-sided and generally very unfair.
O.
The luck of the game has been
Tinker's greatest asset AS far as
Cincinnati is concerned. he was in
the way. He couldn't get along with
his employers, and they didn't want
him any more. He might have
brought only u few thousand in a
sale, and he might have been traded
for some young and untried player
that would eventually prove fall
ure. His fortune was otherwise.
Brooklyn wanted him and other clubs
wanted him, and he was finally
bought for $4,000. $4,000 of which is
to go to him as bonus, Then up
comes the salary question. The
Brooklyn magnates, after giving $685.
600 for Tinker, naturally would feel
as if they should have something to
say as to how much the player should
receive. They offer him $1,000 year.
He gives them the merry laugh. He
demands $500 a year and a three
year contract. The fans say he ought
to got 1t. and the scribes declare he
is cheap at twice that sum. The
Brooklyn Club magnates haven't
made up their mind yet Just what
they will do.
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The Cycle Racing Association,
understand, is looking for a man who
knows cycling we'll enough to be able
to manage a track in the summer
time and to conduct short-hour six
day races in the winter months. The
right man would be welcome and he
would have a pretty nice thing of II
In every way. The kind of a mar
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