Evening journal., 1914-12-10
ny HAL SHFRIDAN.

written for the United prcss).
NEW YORK. Dec. l0.-The Federal
League announces that Il hopes 10
save more than q quarter OF mill
lion OF dollars next year. The state
ment Is hard to reconcile with the
oit-repeated assertion that the Feds
would sign up more big league stars
next season than they did in 1914.
II the Fed magnates continue the
pace they capered last spring and
summer I'm the matter OF bidding and
paying high to snatch the stars thov
did from Organized BAH, they would
not be able 10 save a cent. n they
don't continue the same pace they
won't get any more stars II they
don't get the stars, Organized Base
ball will be pretty able to canter
along. ErgO-The Feds are going Ia
reach the crisis Of their career nexi
year
Nobody shed very many tears. nor
was there any audible gnashng of
teeth over the fact that Frank Moran
and Bombardier Wells were unable
10 meet In London recently as
scheduled. OF all the contests we
can think OF that might prove most
uninteresting AMI not worth a far
thing would be a Wells-Moran fight
Here's something to make the base
ball magnates grit their molars In
envy. Harvard's football team played
10 100000 spectators during the sea-
son just closed. The gross gate re-
ceipts for the nine games reached a
total of 100000, of which Harvard's
share was 100000
This means that every time Har-
ward went on the field there was ap-
proximately $4,000 in the box office
belonging 10 the Crimson Athletic
Association. If football team
could stand the 154-game season as
a baseball team does. and they could
keep up this record Of attendance it
would be only small matter of So
$4,000 for a season
II Manager McGraw, OF the New
York Giants. fails to cop a pennant
i'm 1915. there's one real alibi he can't
uso-dearth of materials. The pug
naciOus New Yorker will take fifty
one huskles To Texas with him when
he mobiiizes for spring practice. Me
/ Graw says he intends TO cut the
squad down to twenty players by the
end of the first week of the season.
Sporting writer's Of New York are
/ still cropping about for the answer
to why the Giants we're beaten out of
/ the pennant last summer. Judging
from the following typical headline
which appeared recently. "Omcial
Batting Averages DO Not Tell The
! Story OF Giants Failure To Win.
The Braves. themselves. told on every
I National League diamond In the coun-
try, and then again on the Philadel-
phia American Leagle grounds.
On still another sporting page we
find the following "solemnly stated. %
/ The Braves eXcelled at nothing in
particular All of which the figures
bear out But they raised hob with
/ everything i'm general and especially
( in the matter of producing the win
ming amount of speed and pep.
Sporting experts sometimes do
agree. We didn't lsmp an all-Ameri-
can team selected in 1913 that didn Z
have Charley Brickleys name in the
/ line up. We haven't seen one this
year that names Charley. All agreed.
however. that excepting for that
missing appendix. Brickley would
have landed regular job as tho
best player who ever drew on pair
of molcskin trousers.
The two mon who have been al
most unanimously picked as having
places on an all-American eleven. and