Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-28

Jones. manager of st. Louis. to go
and get Johnson, and Jones, it is be-
lieved, is now on the trail. A three
year contract with $4,000 in salary
is said to be what Johnson wants, and
the Feds, it is asserted, are willing
to meet his demands. The Washing
ton club, it is known, offered Johnson
$4,000 for next season. These terms
the pitcher has turned down.
c.
But Johnson is not the only star
the Feds are hopeful of getting
Schlafy, it is said, makes no bones
of the fact that he is after Walter
Meanwhile, Dick Rudolph and Hank
Gowdy. all three of the champion
Boston Braves. A man in telling the
story of how Schlahy was going to
raid the Boston Club said: ut will be
easy for the Feds to get any man they
want on the Braves. The team is g.
cheap one, Johnny Evers being the
only player who gets anything like
a big salary. Neither Maranville,
Rudolph or Gowdy received $4,000 last
year, and they cannot hope for more
than $1,000, or at most $1,000 raise,
Well, the Feds can afford to give
those stars as high as $4,000 year
for three years. l can see where the
outlaws bust up that great little
Stallings machine"
O.
The logic is good and the argument
is very impressive, but Manager Stall-
ings, who is improving every minute
as an actor over at the Palace
Theatre In New York. doesn't think
| there is a man on his ball club who
will desert him. The Miracle Man"
| by the way, Is a strong believer in
sentiment. and he just imagines that
''all his boys" as he calls them. will
stick to him. As well as Stallings
knows ball players, he will find that
few OF them will pass up such a good
thing as $4,000 salary.
"The Federals are welcome to my
ball players IL they can get Them
Stallings said; but I'll bet that not
even the bat boy would desert. AS
a matter of fact, all of the men who
are of real value to the club are
signed. The majority of them have
long-term contracts, entered into be-
fore the close of the season. The en-
tire infield Is with me to a man, and
the pitchers and catchers are in line
My outfelders have bound them
selves to the club for 1916 or longer
There are few kid pitchers and a
spare outfelder or two foot-free, but
! I'd like to see anybody outside of our
4 office chase those birds anywhere
else. Why, those kids have the 1917
worlds series won already"
! Nevertheless, II ths Feds go after
Il tho stars on the Braves, Stallings will
soon find out, to his sorrow, all about
that much-vaunted sentiment.
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! In my talk with President Gilmore
at the Federal League meeting, ir
the Biltmore Hotel, in New Yorl
last Friday afternoon, the leader Of
the outlaws" made it very clear
that there wouldn't be any halfway
methods about a compromise Will
the organization fold-if compro
mise ever really took place. 1t would
be- big league for the Federals o.
nothing. Mr.. Gilmore was very pos
tive about this statement. AfterwarC
learned that there was some talk o
, moving into New York, but not RICH
away. The plea seemed to be to ge
along for another year with Just on,
change in the circuit-Kansas City
but in the year 1916 the Feds, it wal
said. would come out strong ant
fight the big leagues in every cit.
they were in. They feel that the.
have the minors beaten already
and they have, and in year or 81
they expect to overcome the ma
TORS. That, in bold calculation, wa
the talk dealt out by man who Il
supposed to know a great deal abou
the doings in the secret councils o
the Feds.
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The Feds want whole lot to qui
their monkeyshines. They are will
ing, it is said, to go In with organi
cation men and form two ten-clul
leagues, or they are willing to sigl
q peace pact if the regulars vii
agree to give them permission to pu
teams in big league towns where onl.
i, one team exists at the present time