Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-17
BY Percy II. Whiting.
HTHE Southern league vii

Il"HE Southern league viii
some day come to the
scheme of limiting the mum
Der of ex-big leaguers who will be
allowed to play with each team,
says President Frank Galloway, of
the Atlanta Baseball association,
THE situation of a business enter
prise in which most of the partners
are losing money is absurd. A lot
of things must be done to keep ex-
penses within reason. and that
seems to be one of the good ways"
Watch and see IL it doesn't come
off within the next couple of years.
IF you'll stop and think youll
realize that this baseball thing, as
a business. is a joke. The Atlanta
club last year kissed good bye to
some ten thousand bones. II was
little enough for the Georgia Rail-
way and Power Company, and they
swallowed the dose like heroes. But
suppose some private individual
owned the club-how long do you
suppose he would stand It?
If the Southern league club own
ers should get together once a year,
write down their profits, if they had
any, in one column, their losses in
another, and total it up. If would
show a comfortable loss. Pause and
consider the financial idiocy of a
business that is regularly a losing
thing.
OF course, some clubs make mon
ey each year. Probably it win av-
erage three a year. The other five
will generally lose.
Backing a Southern league club
is sure thing gambling, with the
other fellow dealing off the bot
tom Of the deck. It's betting against
a 200 per cent book-for every two
hundred dollars the bookies take In
they pay out a hundred The play
ers soon get cleaned at that game.
A S a matter of getting some real
= expert opinion on the subject.
wrote some men down in the Sally
league who know about the inner
workings OF the league there. Here
are some expressions of opinion as
to the working Of the ex-big league
rule in the Sally league:
BY NJ p. coRisH,
president Of South Atlantic League0
I'M Of hE
important rules adopted by our as
ISOLATION prior TO the opening Of
our 1912 championship season are
as follows, viz;
mo player, except the player
manager, is eligible to play in this
league whose contract in 1911 was
for salary in excess Of $3.50 per
month
mo player shall receive more
than Sl5O per month, with the eN-
ception OF the player mana ger"
mo club shall employ at any
one time, more than four play
ers, including the manager, who
have previously participated in
regular scheduled games in
leagues Of higher classification, as
follows. Pitchers, exceeding ten
games, all other players exceeding
twenty games in any one season"
In reply to your request for an
expression as to how the expert
ment has worked and whether il
will be continued this year, will
say the innovation has proven all
that its advocates claimed for IL,
and am sure l voice the sentiment
OF every club member in saving
there is no desire to return to old
practices
BY JIM FOX
manager Of the Columbus TeamD
Limit OF four men who have
played in higher leagues a good
one. ] am opposed to a twelve
player limit because a couple 81
injured men can soon put a good
club out Of the running Thirteen
men is as small a limit as a club
can get along with unless they are
lucky. But the other rule is a
corking good one and has helped
baseball in the South Atlantic
league
BY HARRY DOpD
(sportlng Editor Savannah News0
Viewed from a financial stand
point the South Atlantic league
season Of 1912 old not escape the