Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-31

IlGm. just i1llabAhO a AeAA hh6At a.
a big crowd if rider should single
him out for attack He would nc
doubt be willing to give ten times the
amount he paid to get in to get oui
OF the inelosure in a hurry.
o.
Fans have their favorites in all
sports and 1t is all right that they
show their likes. But they should
remember that there are others. To
the winner belongs the spoils, but the
loser is not always disgraced, and luck
will break the bank of Monte Carlo.
Be modest in the hour OF victory and
you'll not be so heavy-hearted in the
time of defeat.
O.
The Wards, who own the Brooklyn
Federal League Club, are indignant
today over the story printed in New
York paper yesterday that the Feds
were on the run and that the out
law" league was on the brink of sus-
pension. Indignant is. perhaps. al
most too mild a word to describe their
feelings. The Wards really are mad
mad as hornets-and they brand the
story as not only false, but malicious.
The Federal League. young Mr.. Ward
says, is stronger than ever, and there
isn't a chance in the world of the or
ganization going on the rocks. The
outlaws according TO the Wards,
are here to stay, but just the same,
from all the talk going round, there
is something in the air.
O.
From a man who is very close to
the big magnates in the Federal
League / heard last night that the
outlaws are going to put strong
minor league in the field. If they are
here to stay. as the Wards claim,
like that must be done. If
the Feds are to secure more star
players from the regulars" they will
have to have a place to put their sur
plus men.
@
tour has been made through the
League-I understand.
and an effort will be made, it is said.
TO put Federal League teams in some
of the cities on the circuit. Just
what the cities will be is not even
known by the Feds themselves, and
will not be known for some time yet
Much, 1t is said, will depend on what
IS done about the proposed new third
eague, as suggested by President Bar
-ow, of the International League, and
President johnson, of the American
League. If only four cities in the
present circuit secure franchises in
the new big league, it is likely that
the Feds will take the remaining
four cities. This plan will also be
carried out in the American Associa-
ton, where the four clubs that are
to be passed up by the third big
league promoters will be matched up
with the four clubs in the Interna-
tional League that are not consid-
cred strong enough for big league
company.
When President Barrow first talked
If the new third big league, with four
League and four Amer
can Association clubs in the organi-
sation, there was some tail guessing
As to the clubs that would be selected.
Naturally it was felt that the four
pest and biggest cities would be
named, but this, / understand, is not
10 be so. As far as can be learned,
Toronto, Buffalo a~7 Baltimore have
already been ass, berths in the
new third league, and there
s said to be considerable skirmishing
going on as between Newark, Roches-
,er and Providence for the fourth club
n the organization. This information
comes from a source that is very close
10 those who are building the new
.hird big league.
o
Taking this dope as the state of
affairs in the International League,
Newark has only one chance in three
IF getting in the charmed circle, yet
t is surely one of the three best
cities in the league. Toronto may
draw more people and make more
but as between Newark and
Buffalo Newark would seem to have
the call. With ball park in a de-
sirable location the patronage at the
Newark games would increase at
least 20 per cent, and Newark would
soon become the leading city in the
circuit. That Buffalo and Baltimore.
because Of the Federal League inva-
sion, should have first call for places
in the new third big league is per-
haps not entirely out of order, but if
the other two cities are to be chosen
because of their size and their
strength as baseball communities,
then Newark and Toronto should cer-
tainly be in the swim.
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Just as soon as the Feds learn
for sure what cities are going to be
corralled for the proposed big third
league, then they will get busy and
form a minor league, with all the
cities, except Montreal. that are not
taken in by the regulars" How
ever, these plans are long way off,
and whole lot Of things may happen