Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-21

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The Federal League will be a great
thing for the soreheads-for the mer
who have become peeved at the pow
ers-that-be, and would do anything
to get back at them. Throughout the
various cities where the Feds are
showing their hand soreheads by the
score are popping up and doing their
mightiest to help the Outlaws" to
make good. The organization mag
mates haven't any enthusiastic sup
porters to Offset the outbursts of the
invaders, and it makes the Feds APP
pear stronger than they really are.
4 The fans who seek good baseball are
strong supporters of the regulars"
but they haven't any reason to go out
and shout their heads off, the same
as the followers of the OUTLAWS" are
doing. Thus appearances are not all
signs of the times, yet it must be adj
mitted that there is more than hot
air to the proposed invasion of or
ganized baseball on big lines.
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1t is claimed that the present agi-
tation came about more because of
the unpopularity of Charley Murphy,
of the Chicago Cubs, than for any
other reason. Murphy, it is well
known, has made himself ridiculous
and the game ridiculous by his num-
erous outbreaks. He has been a
limelighter and freak, in a way
and the sport has suffered by his
actions. He has made bad breaks
and he has pulled some tricks, and of
late he has not been wanted at all by
the big men in the fold. He has been
able to stick around, however, and
lately, evidently realizing his posi-
ton, he has become very quiet. It
was Murphy who rekindled the Joe
Tinker controversy. He butted in
had purchased the player for Gin
cinnati. This aroused lots of talk,
and the Federals, with an eye to
business, jumped at the chance to
secure Tinker, who was receiving
much advertising. That's what real=
ly gave the outlaws their first
prominent mention. Since then, how
ever, with the Tinker publicity still
in hind, the Feds have been doing
things and they have been getting
their share of attention.
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Frank Chance, manager of the New
York Yankees, is one of the big men
in baseball who blame Murphy for
Splitting the BEANS" Chance, in an
interview out in Los Angeles, Cal,
puts 1t up to Murphy.
Murphy is responsible for the or
ganization of the Federal League"
Chance declared. HE is to blame for
the large number of major league
baseball players who are jumping to
the outlaw organization. He has done
more to hurt baseball than any other
man who has been in the game in all
the years that the sport has -four
ished. You can mark my words WELL
because he is going to continue to be
an Objectionable figure in the ma
tional pastime just so long as he is
allowed to have any connection with
any club under the jurisdiction of the
National Commission.
"a lot of my friends said | was
crazy two years ago when l sold my
stock in the Chicago National League
Club" Chance went on to say, "but
| wasn't. l sold my interest for $40,-
900, and fifty persons who knew me
well came to me and demonstrated
at what they termed rash and fool
ish act.
Another thing" Chance said,
Charles Weeghman, one of the
hackers of the Chicago Federal
League team, was for years an ardent
Cub rooter. He soured on Murphy,
and so did thousands of other patrons
of the West Side Ball Park"
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! Chance seems to have the proper
dope. Murphy has been making mis-
takes all his life, and others have
suffered mostly through his bulls.
With the Cubs behind him, Murphy
always felt that he was a big frog
in the baseball pond, and he played
high cards and unlimited stakes. He
talked much and created all kinds of
discussion, and 1t is about time that
be was given the halter and the gate
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The evidence is becoming stronger
every day that the Federals are not
to be passed off with a laugh. Men
with money are being sought every
day to invest in the outlaws" and
the fact that some of them are fall
ing" for the proposition is a sure sign
that the Feds must be showing the
capitalists something. 1t is not SO
difficult to get a man to invest his
money in baseball If you can only
show him where he Is to eventually
come out a winner. Run on a big
scale, the profits are tremendous when
the breaks are with the club, and no
business venture is a better venture
than is baseball OF course, there
have been not a few fy-by-night,
wildcat baseball schemes, and some
mighty shrew men have been stung,
but from what we can learn from
the inside, the rock upon which the
Federal League is being built is on
line of a Gibralter.
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