Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-13

he doesn't have to report to the Big
Show" unit the minor league season
Is over. This is a big point in the
minors favor.
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As to maintaining the privilege of
drafting one player from each club,
that might not be such a one-sided
il a certain rather low
price were not named in the law.
When the majors secure a player by
draft they pay Just $500 for him, yet
he may be priceless to the club from
which he is taken and he would
bring, perhaps, five times the draft
price If he was for sale in open market.
The minors might get away with
such a proposition if they presented
il TO the majors forcibly. The little
fellows could express a willingness to
accept the draft providing,
say, the big fellows would permit all
the major league clubs that desired
the player to make an offer for him.
In that way the club would get its
price and the player would be per-
mitted to improve in his profession.
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The majors offer very good reason
for insisting on the drafting rule be-
ing continued They say it would be
criminal to rescind 1t, for the simple
reason that it would work an injus-
tice to the players. For instance, we
have in Newark our own Billy Tim
norman. Say, for arguments sake,
that he was the making of the New
ark Club. In that case, the owners,
of course would not want to lose him.
That would be natural and fair way
to look at things from club owners
standpoint Now we will take up the
players side of the argument. There
is no good reasn why he shouldn' t
advance in his position, both as to
salary and as to the class of baseball.
Yet if the draft rule is not in vogue
and the player is such tremendous
asset to his club, it isn't likely that
he will be able to put his services to
the best advantages. In one way, 1t
looks like hardship on the minors
to have the draft rule observed and in
another way it surely would be unfair
to restrain the player from advancing
in his profession. The best way out
of q ticlSlish situation, it would seem,
would be to maintain the draft, as is
sure to result, but to allow the ma
jors to bid on the player.
In this case the draft rule would
simply resolve itself into "compul-
sorry selling" which would not be
giving either side the worst of it in
any way.
The Jersey City ball club will stay
right where it is, thanks, we say, to
Tom Fogarty, the president of the
Shelters. The idea, in the first place,
to move the Jersey City team to
nently among the "Bonehead Barry
and Erred Merkle" plays on the dia-
mond. Who was the original sugges-
ter of the scheme no one will say with
any positiveness, but many of those
who have been discussing the subject
seem to think that Jack Dunn, of the
Baltimore Club, was the culprit
Whether or no, we all make mistakes,
and the wise part of the whole affair
is that the scheme didn't materialize
Although only kid in age and but a
year or so in the game, President
Fogarty fought off all overtures for
the transfer of the Skeeters to Ebbets
Field. He made a bold stand and he
made a big hit with the Jersey City
fans when he came out and declared
II control the Jersey City Club ano
if the Jersey City Club plays In the
international League next season il
will play in Jersey City We will moi
play in Brooklyn.
1.-THE fans were loyal to me last veal
and the club didn't lose any money
although we finished a hopeless tail
ender. Next season l hope things
will be different. We expect to have
a tip-top team and I am going to give
the Jersey City people the best | car
get in baseball. This talk of trans.
ferring the club over to Brooklyn may
cost us some friends in Jersey City
but | know we will win them bach
when the fans realize that we were
not responsible in any way for tn,
proposed transfer of the club. All W,
want is a chance to show our calibre
The Jersey City fans certainly
showed their class last season by theil
stanch support of our last-place club. ;
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Joe Tinker enjoying "a touch o
high life, held the centre of the stag,
at the Waldorf Astoria in New Yorl
last night. Josephus, the Fedora
general, walked right into the enc
my's camp and began to make
popular fellow of himself by buyin,
drinks for all hands around. 1t wa
observed that none was too prou,
to tip glasses with Tinker, and TO
the time being the outlaws" witt
Joe noisily holding the floor, wer
the whole show. Occasionally an op
position magnate would show him
self, but one glance at Tinker an,
prosperity would make the other fel
low sick and he would vacate in
hurry. Tinker praised the Federal