Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-16
Newark Fans May Boast big
League" Team Within
Oae Year.
TO NIL FEB. 9
President Edward Barrow Adj
mits Reports to Be Founded
on Facts.

The international League is grow
ing ambitious again and Is ready TO
axpand and advaace II possible. 1t
has been President Edward @. Bar
rows ambition to make the Interna-
tional League a major organization,
nth the same rights and privileges
IS the big fellows. Reports from Bal
4irnore today say that the time has
arrived, In the opinion of many of the
magnates, and the subject will be
Brought up at the meeting OF the In
4ernational League, to be held In New
York on Monday, February 8.
6 With the runnor also came a re-
8tval of the old stories that the Jer-
Bey City franchise is about to be
transferred to Washington, and that
the Montreal Club will represent
Brooklyn next season.
Mr.. Barrow discredited part of the
reports, but declared that the an
announcement was premat ure, but
might come to pass perhaps a year
from now. President Thomas Fogar-
fy, of the Jersey City Club. Said that
tho rumors of transferring the
=Skeeter franchise to Washington were
the purest kind of fabrlcations and
the Shelters would surely represent
the burg across the Hackensack
#meadows.
In discussing the situation Presi-
dent Edward G. Barrow, of the IN
ternational League, declared he could
mot say much just now. He also as
serted that he couldn't deny the re-
port, but he discounted the Brooklyn
and Washington end of It, and wound
up by saying, 'Why this continual
picking on Jersey City,"
Report Comes from baltimore.
! The Baltimore reports had 1t that
the plans were to make the Interna-
tional and American Association team
big leagues at once in order to fight
The Federals. 1t would be very nice
FOR local fans If they could call the
sTigers major leaguers. The team
would not be any stronger through
the process of calling the Tigers big
leaguers. but within a years time the
*effect of being immune from drafts by
majors would have a telling effect on
ell of the international League clubs.
The playing utility of the league
would be improved, and 1t would be
the biggest boom given the league
since it's advance into class AA un.
Per President Edward Barrow's
Regime. e.eel74
Il MI. Barrow is not at all worried
over the Federals. THE contracts
ere pouring In in Volumes declared
the International League executive
s. and | don't expect that any of our
teams will suffer the least, even if
$he nuch> heralded invasion does ma
&eriaiize.'' VII
& Ebbcts jr. IL Not Enthusiastic.
q President Charles H. Ebbets, jr., of
fthe Newark Club, made q most en-
phatic denial that the Montreal fran
chise would be placed in Brooklyn or
shat the subject had even been
Preached. In regard to the major
8keague scheme, he said that he did not
think 1t would be practical, for the
Reason that the expenses of maintain
ing a club here on a major league
scale would be doubled, because of
salaries, ETC., and that the only way
II could be done would be to charge
major league prices, which the fans
would probably object to paying In
addition he argues that in drafting a
piayer the International League would
shave to pay as much as major league
4clubs, and in the long run 1t would
mot pay He declared emphatically
that the Brooklyn Club would have to
be consulted before the Montreal or
any other franchise could be trans
ferred to that place and he also as
serted that no such request had been
made.
There is no doubt that the Interna-
tional magnates will request the Ma
tional Commission to cease drafting