Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-24
GENERAL BASEBALL
HIT BY GENERAL WAR
Giants Lose Worlds Championship to
Athletics After Winning Pennant
Fourth Time Consecutively.
By Hal Sheridan.

)l NeW lOTh, aug. Ef.-BhseDall mag
nates-Fed, major ana minor-are be-
/ ginning to wear very worried look
these days. They are share General
Sherman s opinion of war. They are
wondering where they are going to get
off If this big European scrap de luxe
lasts much longer. Reticent as they
are to admit that anything at all will
hurt the great and grand American
game of baseball, they will tell you,
when closely pressed, that the war
across the pond ism t doing them a bit
of good. That S some concession from
a b. b. owner, take it from MS.
This has been mighty tough year
on ye national pastime, anyway. The
great strength shown by the Feds ON
their second year out, combined with
a lot of pickering and quarreling ~
tween players and owners, has given
baseball a terrific wallop. The turn
stiles have not been clicking so merrily
rs in years gone by. Old General Pub
lie seems to be getting wary of the once
great sport, believing that like every
thing else it is getting commercialzed.
Now with this war thing coming
down on top of all tneir other troubles,
the aforementioned magnates are pass
ing many sleepless nights. They fear
that if the war draws out very long it
will cause finapciaLsstringency, and
they know that when money gets scarce
they will be among the first to suffer.
Common sense--some baseball powers
still show signs of having that article
tells them that fans and even thirty
third degree "bugs' will stay away
from the ball orchards when the fifty
cents and six-bits that they hand in
there will be needed to keep the family
larder supplied. Baseball ism I neces.
sity-except to the athletes who derive
their living therefrOm. Where basebaA
will get walloped the hardest will be
in the worlds 'serious" apologies to
y0u-know-me-al). This annual battle in
the fall between the two penant win
ners in tGe major leagues as we all
know has been veritable golden har-
vest for the club owners and PLAYERS.
The newspapers the country over have
Obligingly boosted along the cause of
the game by playing this world s :" ser
lous" stuff all over the front pages.
This year, with Europe involved in the
greatest war the world has ever known,
1t isn I hard to imagine what will be
done to baseball. 1t is possible there
will be sporting pages left in some
newspapers, by the time the world s |
series is started. We doubt it. War
news by that time will have engulfed
every newspaper in the country, front
page and all. In that event You n |
probably have to look at what used to |
be the market page to see little item,
with a one-hne head, reading about as
follows.
"GIANTS LOSE AGAIN"
After winning the pennant in the
National league for the fourth eonseeu.
i've time, the Giants lost the world 3
championship to the Athletics of Phila.
delphia."
Ne Gods and little fishesl Caust
imagine the situation when the above
comes 10 pass. But come to pass it may
and probably win unless someone-Bar-
on Rothchild or Andy Carnegie-calls
the European battle royal to a halt. |
Here s why in a nutshell:
This bloody mess across the pond is
putting all newspapers and press asso-
cations to an enormous expense. Ca.
Diagrams come especially in war
timesi extra editions are put out at a
big loss, more men in all departments
are required and business is bad, cutting
down on the advertising.
Naturally lot of money isn't going
70 DC spent covering some such mere
tning as a worlds series. And if the
newspapers don I give the world 5 ser
les its usual amount of space, that will
Dc another blow at the attendance at
the parks.
All in all, it looks as If General War
Is going to hand General Baseball an
awful wallop, right in the mushl
Even the war, however, can't keen
one from warbling the praises of this
fellow Stallings, pilot OF the Boston
gang in the Gov. Tener circuit. The
manner in which he has those Braves
humping along, wrecking everything in
their path, is one OF the seven wonders.
They are winning consistently and only
decided setback can keep them from
giving the Giants an awful tough little
argument for the rag. ~ g~7WNQ
The Giants frankly admit they fear
the Stalhngs bunch. They don Z smile
any more when they read Of Boston
victory. To the contrary, their Jaws
sag down a little every time they see
the Braves have hung up another win
on the right side Of the ledger.
IA e.. a.. Al.