Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
Many Tigers Receive Offers for
Next Season from Promoters
of Scheme.
MARK STOLL MAKING GOOD
Manager Smith Expected to
Give Local Boys More Chance
Next Season.
(From STAFF Correspondent of the New.
ark Evening Starr

Uncle Sam built the Panama canal
he did something besides creating an
artery for the commerce of the en-
tire world. He established new
means of popularizing baseball that
the world over and at the same time
s opened the way for some of the finest
training camps in the world. Al
ready there is a scheme on foot to
' organize a winter league of large pro-
portions known in the Panama dis
: trHct and offers have been made to
Newark players to perform there next
winter from Thanksgiving Day until
Washington's Birthday. Wyatt Lee
received an offer of 5000 month and
a government job for the winter call
ing for SIS per month.
Players Like Project.
a. The ball players are head over heels
in love with the Panama league
scheme because they realize that
while an athlete profits by his winter
of rest they also believe that the most
ideal training camps in the world
could be found in Panama around
February and March.
The fact that Americans throng to
the place makes baseball big draw
Ing card in the canal zone and the
national game is much in demand.
Some of the big league clubs are al
ready considering inducements to
tgain in the vicinity of the Culebra
cut next year. Men of the most con-
servative judgment say that baseball
clubs could more than clear expenses
training down in some of the small
towns in Panama.
Malaria Dangers Eliminated.
The dangers of malaria have prac-
tically been eliminated through the
!. genius of Americans, who fought and
solved the problem while the canal
was in course of construction. With
the Feneral League offering princely
salaries and the proposed Panama or
ganization ready to give ball players
winter employment there are indeed
fowery days in store for bali play
ers
Bad Weather for Tigers.
The weather the Tigers have met
with this spring is the worst any
Newark club has ever had in Dixie
and the ball players are naturally
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wrapped up in the Panama PROPOSE
tien and the hope that it develops
INTO a real paying proposition of
spring training camps.
Good Reports About stoll.
The reports coming from Americas,
Ca, where the Toledo club, with Mark
Stoll, Newark boy, is in training,
+, have interested Harry Smith and he
may follow Jack Dunn's example of
signing local boys for next spring.
Stoll is being touted as a sure enough
phenorn. In recent practise game
the Toledo players were all swinging
their heads off to wallop the ball over
the fence, but Stoll was the only man
who could do it. He sent the sphere
clear over the centre field bulwark.
Jack Dunn's system has always been
to give the local talent chance. If
he develops one man a season he is
well paid, as has been proven in the
rases of Clarence Russell and Fritz
Maizel.
Many Local Boys Signed.
There were more Newark boys
signed during the past winter months
than any other time. A number of
them are going to Glass A leagues.
Their records will be closely watched,
and IL they make good look for activ-
ity on the part of the Tiger manage
ment next year in picking a local
boy from the lots and developing him
though outsiders are frequently given
a chance, and many of them are med
iocre in comparison with Newark
semi professionals. Bill Zimmerman
had to go elsewhere to get repu-
tation before Joe McGinnity wisely
laid his plans to capture William.
Home talent is appreciated by New
ark fans more than in other towns,
because there are more amateur
: and semi-pro Sunday games in New
ark than in any other towns of its
size in the country. All of these
teams have large followings, and if
the Newark Club managed to get out
a voungster q year out of the vast
producing grounds around the
metropolis of New Jersey, it would
prove a paying proposition. Many of
Atthe semi-pro fans would follow their
idols. and the gate receipts would
surely be swelled.
Lew McCarty May Return.
with the chances of getting John
Hummell deadlocked for the time
being at least, because Frank Chance
viii not waive, the Newark Club is
still in a hole. Harry Smith will
have n confab with the Brooklyn
management when the Tigers get to
Augusta. and little will be done be-
foret that time. From latest reports
Mike Heckinger, the Brooklyn re-
cruit. is going great guns, and 1t
NAV be that Lew McCarty will re-
turn to the Tigers instead of Heekin-
y ger.
George smith Improving.
cseoree Smith is shaping up better