New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
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\ New York baseball writer quotes an
unnamed big league official 80 saying '"a'
Dave Fultz ought to order the players ~
return 10 the fold and not sign with the
Fcderals First they said Dave Wouiu
wreck the organizations and now they arr
pleading with HIM To save IT.
FuItr should worry about what II gong
to happen to Hermann, Murphy, 'on"so"
and the rest OF them. player II u p'"!''
TO him, and II the Fedcra!s don't give inc
boys n sauarc deal he will get aher the"
In a manner that brought Organized baseoaI'
to it, knees.
There will always he baseball ou'
whether ii will continue under ITS present
ownership Is something quite different
with the Poughkeepse regatta only h'e
months away. Jim Rice il plunged III g'oo"
ai the showing ~ the Columbia squad ~
This rate McGraw ought to he spen"'"s
man, an,jou. moments anent the CONDITION
, of Matt,. and whether he will he In up'op
1
on the advice OF Billy Sunday. Fred
Walker the former Brooklyn recruit
nitcher. has turned down an offer to pla!
with the Federals. Organized pasepa"
seems to have the evangelists on It's side
At any rate. II must be that Billy mas
never heard of the famous wine-SoaNeu
Gatherings i'm the cafe of the Waldorf.
or course the reserve clause is binding
{ hut Ban johnson Is urging with frantic has'e
! the signing Of contracts for next season. me
players. however. are at libert! 10 take '"."
time. holding out until the opening OF the
season IL they 80 desire. Their hrs' pay Jay
does not come until Nay.
The Philadelphia Athletics. who re-
fused to join tn, movement for the pet
terment of the players. will get the moui-
fed form of contracts and profit by the
changes right away. says Connie Mack
They will reap well where they have not
sown.
Mack says that Ned Hanlon, the outlaw
J promoter. wouldn't lend 30 cents on %
gold piece Connie himself isn't scattering
his money around with IA wanton hand'
Rumnr has il that lot Of men on the Ne"
York Yankees are getting larger salaries
than some of his stars.
Mike Donlin twisted his ankle Siding
into second base in game between the
Giants and White SoX the other DAY 1t
is TO be hoped that the injury VIII not
prove permanent Vaudeville is in danger
of losing one of its brightest lights.
What "A calamity terpschorean art
would suffer should one Of RUDE Mar
guards long legs get caught in the maze
Of a dance and he was disabled for any
extended period.
u, the way. where /. the RUDE IN the
midst of all this outlaw turmoil lie must
he playing 10 capacity houses or MS press
,pen, would plunge him right into the thick
of IT,
since the baseball players took To writ
iril. there has been a revolution in sports
MANY of the leading opponents are golns
ir for culture and all that sort OF thlnS.
Freddie Welsh. the English boxer. has
inst announced that he is deep student
Of Tolstoy. Maxim Gorky and Maeter-
linck. and was perfectly amazed when
he read Shaws "Quintessence Of lbsen-
ism" II is to be hoped that Jack john
son does not fan under the spell of Berg
son while he is i'm Paris and return TO
qiv. Lectures on Creative Evolution
Harry Hampstead says the major
leagues do not f-f-f-fear the F-f-f-f
Fcderals \ decade or 80 ago they
thought Ban Johnson was more or less OF
| a piker.
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