El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-25
Murphy Holds Trumps InBaseball Game
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Can Compel Magnates To Meet Own cam
BY JOHN E. wRAY.

ut. LOUIS, No, Nov. 25.-Lead I
pipes, =revolvers, masks and red
- handkerchief are no longer used
by our best little holdup men. This
sort of scenery may do for the common
or garden shakedown; but when pull
ing the de luxe stand and denver
stuff, persuasion, not force, is the pre-
ferred weapon.
For lessons in the are we refer the
interested stickuP neophyte to tne
baseball world. While not exactly IN (
the business, Lee Magee, c. Webb Muir
ply and other notables have some very
handy ideas on the subject. Magee,
for example, has just finished giving
an illustration OF how to extract
bunch of coin from a magnate without
employing the revolver
Better still is the case Of 9. Webb
Murphy, formerly of the Cubs and now
still more so. Webb has discovered a
neat scheme for estimating the price
of baseball peace and forcing the big
leagues to pay it, with no other con-
sequences than a few expressions OF
Aha! R-r-revenge Is Sweet!
Webb also includes in his bill a
little bonus to be paid him as salVe
for an expensive little fling organized
baseball had at his expense. Here's
webb Murphy, one of the smartest
and shiftiest guys that ever boosted
himself from a press agency INTO
million, bought the Chicago CUPS,
worth 100000, for himself and Mr..
c. P. Taft, price 100000. He earned
the undying hatred of every magnate
who overlooked this bet by running
the clubs value into about SI2OO,OOO,
and making it pay dividends in pro
portion, he still further cinched his
aHe Turned Around Etc.
Webb then proceeded to prove him.
self an Objectionable character IN the
baseball world by outwitting every
other magnate who had dealings with
him, and by getting into the papers
more press matter than the complneu
publicity bureaus of all the major
league world combined;
''This must not be-" the associate
and outwitted magnates declared So
they planned his destruction ana
bounced him out of the baseball world
That is to say, they dismissed him
from office, led him to the front door
and bade him goodby-
But Webb, with his customary ina
bilfty to take a hint, proceeded TO
walk around to the back door, by
which route he entered the war zone
Murphy Holds the Trumps.
IT also develops that when they es-
corted him out the front door they FOR
Got to take away his stock in the cubs!
Pending the sale of the Cubs, when
the money was to be turned over to /
him, Murphy retained his holdings
These holdings in hand, Murphy
stepped into the baseball war arena /
and declared in substance; II you /
want peace see mel!
And that's the situation today |
baseball must see Webb Murphy ana /
nav his price before peace can be ar I
ranged And the price of peace VIII /
steadily go up, in memory OF the at /
front that baseball offered the smart /
est man in it, Ban Johnson excepted.
Considering that no money can be !
made without peace, that the Feueral /
leagues fate depends on the same, and /
that the allegiance and future exist /
ence Of the entire minor league world /
hinges on peace and that the reten- |
ton of popular interest in the game is /
involved in the settlement of the war, /
the trumps held by c. W. NJ. indicate /
that, whatever his demands, they will /
Now. then, you stickup guys, how,s
that for cutting out the rough stuff /
and getting results?
Out to "Get'' johnson.
It looks like they are out to get (
Jack Johnson. The colored scrapper |
might expect to beat Jess Willard /
alone; but as matters are shaping up, |
it appears that Jack will have to
whip the whole gang, Willard, John |
Barieycorn and father Time combined.
Another Little Guess.
Don De ulScOuIa6eu py =. w 1huI-
although the price may be heavy.
When it does. the telescoping of the
circuits sure to happen will interest
only two leagues-the international
and the Federal
But this is not the logical guess:
Montreal, Toronto Jersey City and
possibly Baltimore, international
league clubs, to be dropped; Kansas
City ST. Louis, Chicago, Brooklyn and !
nOgGihlW VnGign9nOl1C teams nf fha
Feds to be transferred to big cities Of
the United States, where only one big
club now exists; the remains of the
two circuits amalgamated into one
league.
The beginnings Of this move are
noted in the fact that the Montreal /
franchise is for sale. Toronto will also
be on the market, for, with the con-
ditions Of war prevailing abroad, the .
colonies cannot be greatly interested I