Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

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w kicking up quite a cloud OF
w dust just now, the young
nlayers in organized baseball do not
want to be blinded by 1t.
Certain older players, who have
onIv few years of baseball life left,
hive and will scurry to cover under
the furry and help themselves to all
tho visionary good things" that are
be,ng handed out so literally by the
nronoters Of the new league, who
have heen behind the stormclouds
and aroused the preliminary dust just
,or the purpose of befogging the I'M
initiated.
Thu oId-timers are the ones WHO
viii be first to take advantage of the
hoom, and they will be found in the
.rd-or when the clouds clear-to be
,he only ones benefited. They will
have feathered their nests with the
preliminary coin at hand, which is
always too literally distributed, and
the Youngsters who follow in the
wake of the wise old "has-beens' win
only have the leavings-and the pick
,Ss Of what is left will be very, very
msager.
BECAUSE Joe Tinker, Otto Knabe,
ID Mordecai Brown and other play
ers who have not more than three
years at the most to look forward to
IN baseball, have jumped at the chance
10 make this soft money" and they
can not be blamed either for their de-
sire to make themselves well fixed
/ In their declining athletic years, still
| The Youngsters with a future ahead of
them should not follow like sheep
and make the plunge. They, if they
do that, are leaving a certainty for
/ an experiment., and an experiment,
. TOO that at the best outlook that can
! be given it has nothing stable to
/ recommend it.
have been through three wars In
baseball against organized baseball,
and know whereof l speak.
The Federal League has a perfect
right to launch out and try. The
new organization can not be called an
outlaw" either, until it does some
thing to warrant the stigma title.
When the Federal League attempts to
steal players from organized base
ball by inducing the latter to jump
the reserve rule, the bulwark of or
gained baseball, then the name out
law might be given them, but not
until then.
THE Federal League has just as
much right to start a baseball
league as the National or American
Leagues, to grasp new territory legal
~ The only question for the play
ers to decide is the buttering of their
bread, and surely the side that has
always shown real butter and plenty
Of it is preferable to the ones who
an only make promises and they
very doubtful of fulfillment.
II was a young player of promise,
would take advantage of the pres
ent situation by signing a long term
contract with a club in organized
baseball. The player doing this will
De absolutely sure of his salary for
Inc term of years he signs for, and
At salary that will be bigger than
the Federal League had not en-
tered into the field.
The big leagues may poohp pooh the
new league; decry It's financial stand
ing and predict dire failure for it,
out nevertheless the same old leagues
are worried more than they care to
acknowledge, and nothing shows that
more than their willingness, in fact
desire, to sign their players for a term
III. -
mat Is offered the youngster and
YES the oldster, to climb on to the
andwagon Of organized baseball.
ana by the oldster I mean players
VINO have been in the game as long
ss Chief Meyers and others, who are
apparently watching the drift of
vents with more financial sentiment
man loyalty to the league and club
mai made them.