Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-14

ne Is SOuS 10 bly the Newark bdst-
ball Club. lie hasn't the time, he
declared, to bother with baseball,
though he likes the game very much.
The story that Mr.. Feigenspan con-
templated purchasing the local club
was told at the meeting of the In
ternational League in New York last
week, and pretty reliable fellow was
sponsor for it. However, Mr..
Feignespan denies the allegation, so
We will have to bury another base
ball rumor with the usual obsequies.
Thomas Fogarty. president of the
Jersey City Club, is very sweet on
Newark as a baseball proposition, and
! he says he is going to make an eff
! fort to form a stock company and
! buy the franchise. In the meantime
| Mr.. Fogarty expects to sell his hold
| ings in the Jersey City Club. Though
New Yorker, Mr.. Fogarty spends
much of his time in Newark. and
says we have the best minor league
city in the country.
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The decision of the international
League 10 have each and every club
owner post $4,000 as a guarantee
that he will go through the season, no
matter how tough it becomes, is
more of show of weakness than it
is a guarantee of strength. If base
ball were in a healthy condition it
would not be necessary to post money
as a guarantee of its existence. But
baseball is as sick as a sick old hen,
and there isn't any medicine that will
make her we'll for a year or two to
come.
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Newark is not the only club that
is on the market. Anyone who has
the inclination and more money than
they know what to do with can pur-
chase the Buffalo club. 1t has been
known for some time that the Bisons
were for sale. and that Jake Stein.
the principal owner. was anxious to
get out. Things were so bad in Buff
falo last season that the National
Commission was compelled to put
money into the club or else there
would have been a doubt about the
Bisons finishing the season. Now it
is planned to sell the club to Charley
Herzog, the manager of Cincinnati,
and Miller Higgins, the manager of
st. Louis, with the National Com
mission as their hacker.
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1t may be some time before it is
decided just what cities will be in |
the International League next sea-
son. Baltimore is a dead one and |
Jersey City is not much better, |
especially after the efforts that have |
been made to pass it up 1t is said |
that Syracuse is desirable, but that |
there is some doubt about Richmond |
Brooklyn, as a member of the league, |
which was a pet scheme of Charley
Ebbets. has been given the cold
shoulder. The men in the game
should know their own business best
but 1t seems as if Scranton along
with Syracuse, as successors of Jer-
sey City and Baltimore, would not
be a bad suggestion. Richmond IS
too Tar off the line. a complaint that |
has always been made against Mon ,
treal. Syracuse is sporty little |
city and so is Scranton. In big COM
pany they would no doubt give
liberal support to their ball clubs.
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With clubs limited to sixteen play
ers. bench managers are out of the
question in the Interna tional League
and some pretty good material will be
available when the various leaders
are given their walking papers" The
only player-manager in the league
who is in his prime is Dan Hawley,
of Montreal, although Harry Smith.
Of Newark; Rudy Hulswitt, of Jersey
City, and Bill Donovan, of Providence,
PLAYED on and off last season. OF the
others, John Camel, Jack Dunn and
Billy Clymer have all been suggested
for major league managerial berths,
and all three have been named as
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