New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-08
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Baseball Owners Not PiIing Up
Tons ON Tons of Gold.
so ASSERTS CONNIE MACK
Profits Go to improvements,
Adds Part Owner of the
Philadelphia Athletics.

Connie Mack. manager and part owner
Of the Philadelphia Athletics. laughs at
the assertion that baseball owners are
pilne up riches. and sounds a warning
that the major League clubs are spending
/ TOO much money and must retrench. AS
an example. he points 10 the fact that his
club has not paid cash dividend in years
despite the fact that it has twice won the
worlds championship. lie was led to
make this statement on hearing remark
that many baseball men mad retired with
fortunes. He said
The only man ! can think of who re-
tired from baseball with money is Ned
IIanlon. former MANAGER Of the Balti-
more ana Brooklyn teams. Hanlon was
PLAYER. manager and club owner, and yet
when We look carefully into his case We
will fnd that Hsnlon retired on the prof
It's which ne made out Of real estate
rather than the profits from baseball
THE immense growth Of baseball has
reached the point where it has forced the
| club owners To sit up and think. The
cost 81 building new plants. the large in
| crease Ia the salaries of players and the
I
poI tons that Il has become serious
question with the owners as TO what is
to he done IL they are going to get even
"A fair interest on their investments.
1T has been several years since the
Athletics paid a dividend. Here We have
been working for years for one purpose.
That was TO build a park that would take
| care OF our patrons and then pay for IT.
We planned the venture AT Shibe Park
three years before We left Columbia Park.
and We have been at Shibe Park four sea-
sons. during two Of which We were worlds
champions.
at the end Of all these years We ind
ourselves confronted with the problem OF
how We are going TO live IL the expenses
Of running major league club are 10 be
maintained. To meet the situation we
/ have been compelled to invest another
500. 000 at Shibe Park for the erection
Of new bleacher in the outneld and for
changes in the old bleachcrs in right and
/ left fields. Instead Of paying dividend
We have been working night and day 10
pay for our new park.
The situation Is giving minor league.
as well as major league. club owners a
/ lot OF thought The problem will have TO
he met by each club according to It's
/ ideas Of what Is best for itself and its
patrons.
"One Of the reasons for the largely in
I creased outlay to run "a ball club is the
rule which has caused clubs To add more
men 10 their roster. There was "A time
when sixteen men was the maximum limit
Then II went up TO eighteen. and now We
are allowed 10 carry twenty-five men all
the. time and thirty-hve men part of the
time IL some OF the club owners had
their way We would be allowed TO carry
forty-lve men. How they can stand II
is more than can see
Connie Mack may he right in what he
SAYS hut the Niger In the woodplle lies
IN IN, word retired" Baseball men who
make money don't retire. They stick TO
the game TO make more money.
Word came from Washington last night
tina, John Henry, the mainstay OF the
Senators behind the bat, was resting
easily after an operation on his knee Tor
the removal OF bit OF loose cartilage.
The surgeons are hopeful that the op-
Grafton will he successful and say that
unless blood poisoning develops the clever
! catcher will he in condition To report for
/ spring training
Macmillan Carnarus. known 10 base
! hall fans" as Max Carey. left fielder or
| the Pittsburgh Pirates. will be married
/ on January 80 To Miss Aurela Behrens,
Of 81. Louis They met four years ago,
| when Carnarius was studying theology at
! Concordia Seminary, in 81. Louis
! Dolly stark. the inhelder, who vas trad
/ ed by Brooklyn to the Buffalo club OF the
! International League last summer. has
/ NOW been sold 10 the Sacramento club or
/ the Pacific Coast League. Sacramento
also holds an option on Louis Drucke the
! pitcher OF the Giants, who held out such
high promise in 1910
! Charles c'Duke') Farrell. the veteran
AUTOMOBILES.