The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-02
IN MAJOR LEAGUES


 Connie Mack with his $1,o0O,00O in- field, the Yankees with their expen- sive third sacker, MaiseI, the White Sox with ChappeIl, Pittsburgh with O'TooIe Giants with Marquard De- trott with Comstock, give the fans a fair idea Of just ho w~Vell the game is being supported
 If the baseball bugs did not attend the games the major league clubs could not spend much money for a famous star. Pittsburgh paid more money for O'Toole than the average magnate would get for whole team in the minor league.
 The American association has been prosperfng as a result of the big deals in baseball. Most of the prize pack ages come from that league.
 Most ball players outlive their bone head p1ays-all save poor Merkle, who is mentioned as the horrible example in every new case
 The bushers have started to go up, but there will be many of them back on their old jobs by the time spring rolls around again.
 Now that baseball results are re- ported 2,000 Or 5000 miles out at sea by wireless, why delay longer that trip to Europe?
 Rome had a dictator. Every ball club has several thousand of them in the grandstand and bleachers.
 The Philadelphia Public Ledger shows plainly that a. winning ball club and one in good standing is the best advertisement that @ city can have. It shows that when Baltimore was in the big leagues, that the population in crease was TYP per cent In the last decade Baltimore had only an increase of 9-2 per cent. On the other hand. Cleveland has 46 per cent, Detroit 3 per cent. and Boston 20 per cent. There is a close relation between good baseball and the growth of population.
 They didn't get a chance to fire Larry Sch1af1y as manager of the Jersey City club in the International league. Schlaay was with the Skee4- CTS in Toronto and there came an or der for him to make a, certain change in the team. He refused by wire to the owners in Jersey City. In return he was wired that he would have to do as he was told or quit. Larry wir- ed back, I'm through" and that set tied it SchIafy complained for sev- eral weeks past that he could not ex- erctse his authority over the players and that one of the owners was nnak- ing a mess of the club through his in terference. Sch1af1y is spending a few days in Buffalo and intends to re- turn to Jersey City the latter part of the week to collect I1ds salary due him ship his personal effects to Beach City, O.
 St. Louis has rebelled. The Mis- souri city is good and plenty tired of continuous losers. This annual dope about building up fine young teams doesn't go any more. Year after year the bugs have been asked to fall for that gulf, and have patiently waited, while each season has been a replica of the one before. In 1911 the Car dinals made gallant flash, for a lit tie while, and have been falling stead fly ever since. The teams haven't shown any real signs of life since 1903 and the fans are amply fatigued with the certainty of one taiI-ender, very likely with two. Small and scanty are the gate receipts these days, and the losses of the two clubs on the present season must have been pret- ty heavy. Great rewards await the Moses who can lead either St. Louis team out of the wilderness of defeat, but nobody of the Moses class seems to be in sight upon the skyline.