Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-15
WILBERT ROBINSON GEORGE sTALLINcs

bettors not to bet and still the bet
was made. The baseball magnates
are on the warpath after the gam
bers and the cycling magnates
should also be on their toes.
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A story that is going the rounds
has it that the Federal League is a
very lucky bird in being able to have
opened its season in Baltimore last
Monday. 1t is said that five of the
Baltimore players had become dis
satisfied and had agreed to jump
back to organized baseball. The club
i'll question was Rochester, and
Charles T. Chaplin, the owner, was
consulted. Mr.. Chaplin is so sore on
the players, it seems, that he
wouldn't listen to the proposition
That is the way the story is told, and
there is more to ii besides.
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That is the yarn that is going the
rounds and which appeared in New
York newspaper. Maybe it is so. 1t
would be just like Mr. Chaplin to
ignore such negotiations. He evident
ly felt unl1indly disposed toward the
players who had jumped his club and
he was willing to get along without
them. For that we would say he de-
serves praise. His personal feelings,
at least were satisfied. He might
H. +,t~ .Io1 IA a,.l- n un
squared their debts, but he wouldn't
play that kind of politics. He could
have crippled the Baltimore team for
a few minutes, and he might have
thrown cloud over the opening, but
such action would have won SYM
pathy for the Feds. Another thing,
the outlaws are here to stay. The.
REGULARS" might impede them here
and there and now and then, but their
advent is complete.
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The players who were mixed up in
the affair, the story goes, were Jack
litsch. Simmons, Wilhelm and linn,
all of whom had jumped the Roch
ester club, and Frank Smith, who
pitched for the Montreal club las,
year. Smith, once with the White
Sox, stipulated that he would not
leave the Terrapins unless he could
have an engagement with major
league club is the tale that is being
told, and he declared that he would
not return to Montreal under any
circumstances. The Rochester play
ers offered to return to the Rochester
club If the advance money they had
taken from Hanlon and Knabe, the
Baltimore magnates. was refunded.
Chaplin, however, would have no deal
ings with the men. Organized base
ball, realizing that the desertion of
four or five Baltimore Feds at the
eleventh hour would put a crimp in
the opening. kept working hard to
bring the coup to successful con-
clusion. JacIlitsch and Simmons
we're at Ebbets Field, it is said, last
Friday, and had a talk with certain
men. Increased pressure was brought
Nto bear on Chaplin, 1t is said, but he
wouldn't listen.
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What do you know about the
Feds?"
Those seven simple little words are
worth their weight in gold to the
OUTLAWS" Everybody is shouting
it. and thus great interest in their
doings is maintained. The Federal
League will help boom baseball Men,
and women, too, who have never seen
baseball game, are now talking
about baseball-talking about the
Feds. In cities where the invaders
are located the slogan is. Lets go
and see the Feds!" Really, when the
big gathering of the clans comes to
pass the outlaws" will have few
apologies to make. They will come
into the fold with a strong following
and baseball will be bigger than ever.
This year, in baseball, viii be one of