Evening journal., 1914-08-25
WAR EVEN HURTS
THE OLD Ball CAME
Owners Are Wondering
Where They Are Going
TO Get Off
GIANTS IN DANGER
OF LOSING PENNANT
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
written for the United Press9


NEW YORK, Aug. 25--Baseball
magnates-Fe major and minor
are beginning TO wear a very worried
look these days. They all share
General Shermans opinion Of war
They are wondering where they are
going to get Off if this big European
SCRAP de luxe lasts much longer. Re-
ticent as they are to admit that any
thing at all will hunt the great and
grand American game of baseball,
they will tell you, when closely
pressed. that the war across the pond
isn't doing them a bit OF good That's
some concession from a b. B. owner,
take it from us.
This has been a mighty tough year
on We national pastime anyway. The
great strength shown by the Feds on
their second year out, combined with
a lot of pickering and Quarreling be-
tween players and owners, has given
( baseball a terrific wallOp. The turn
stiles have not been clicking so mer-
/ rily as in years gone by. Old General
Public seems TO be getting wary OF
the once great sport believing that
like everything else, it is getting com
mercialized.
Now with this war thing coming
down on the top of all their other
troubles, the aforementioned mag
mates are passing many sleepless
nights They fear that if the wai
is drawn out very long it will cause a
financial stringency and they know
that when money gets scarce they
will be among the first to suffer. Com
mon sense-sOme baseball powers
still show signs of having that aru
cle-tells them that fans and ever
thirty-third degree bugs viii stay
away from the ball orchards when tho
fifty cents and six bits that they hanC
I'm there will be needed to keep th'
family larder supplied Baseball
isn't "A necessity except to the ath
letes who derive their living there
from. Where baseball will get wal
loped the hardest viii be in th
worlds Serious" (apologies to yo'
know-me-alD. This annual battle Il
the fall between the two pennant win
ners i'm the major leagues. as we al
! know. has been "a veritable golde
1 harvest for the club owners and play
+, ers. The newspapers the counli
over. have obligingly boosted alon
E the cause OF the game by playln
this worlds SERIOUS" stud all owe
the front pages. This year, with Eu
world has ever known, it isn't har
rome involved in the greatest war IN
I 10 imagine what will be done to base
hall Ii is possible there will b
= sporting pages left in some news
papers. by the time the worlds serie
is started. We doubt il. War new
Inv that time. will have engulfed ever
, newspaper in the country, front pag
\ and all. In that event you'll proDi
, bIv have to look at what used TO D
the market page to see little ltei
with a one-line head, reading abot
p as follows:
"Giants Lose Again.
After winning the pennant !
the National League for the fourt
2 rcnsecutive time. the Giants lost Oh
b worlds championship to the Athletic
5 o. Philadelphia
n Ye Gods and little fishes! Cans
imagine the situation when the abON
comes to pass. But come TO pass
- NAV. and probably will unless som'
Cne-Baron Rothchild OF Andy Ca
# negie-calls this European bait
h royal to a halt Here's wny in a nu
If she'll:
/. This bloody mess across the pon
- is putting all newspapers and pres
associations to an enormous eXpens
e. Cablegrams come high especially
Is war times: extra editions are put o'
at a big loss. more men in an depar
y ments are required and business
i, Ca6, cutting down on the adverti
= ing.
r. Naturally a lot of money isn't g
.e ing to be spent covering" some sue
&c mere thing as a worlds series. Al
l. II the newspapers don't give Il
worlds series its usual amount
srace. that will be another blow
the attendance at the rerks.
All in all, it looks as if Gener
War is going to hand General Bas
n ball an awful wallop, right in Il
IN mushl
Even AMt wal A0NNNNAf NstA NJ
r one from warbling the praises of IN
g fellow Stallings, pilot of the BostC
Ia gang i'm the Gov Tener circuit M
manner in which he has those Brav
to humping along. wrecking everythiI
AZ in their path. is one of the seven wo
ay ders They are winning consistent
IN and only a decided setback can ke'
them from giving the Giants an awf
: tough little argument for the rag
be The Giants frankly admit they fe
the Stalling bunch. They don't smi
av any more when they read of Bost'
ne victory To the contrary, their jay
m. sag down a little every time they S
IN the Braves have hung up another "
on the right side of the ledger
d. The Giants themselves arc not &
an ing along any too WELL and they knC
that if they get a real tough arg