The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-08
EBBETS BARS HIRED
MEN FROM FEDERALS
Ticket Vendors and Door Men
May Not Serve Him and
Outlaws Also.
PRAISE FOR CHANCEMEN
Stallings Considers New Works
as Dark HOrses-FOnd of
Frank Truesdale.
PRAISE FOR CHANCEMEN

Charles II. Ebbets. president OF the
Brooklyn National League club. will not
take the trouble to send his regrets to
his business contemporaries. the Ward
brothers. relative to Mondays big OPEN
ing of the Federal League cause across
the bridge. The Daddy of the Dodgers
Intends to round up the ticket booths,
the guardians of the portals and all other
menials who present themselves to the
line of vision from without the gates.
These Ebbets will bar from Ebbets Field
for all time.
We have tho story straight from a
muleteer. who picks up some easy money
driving wagon for Brooklyn morn.
ing newspaper and doubles by daylight
as "A ticket vendcr at Ebbets Field.
us guys who has T. live OIL our wits
thought II 'ud be pretty soft pickin' when
the Feds came 10 town. We went around
to see tn Wards to get Us jobs when
Brooklyn wuz away. They said Z 'ud
be all right for us to come to work for
them and didn't expect us TO toss de
hooks into dc old gang when both teams
wuz home
We'll that looked pretty good to us
But Ebbets he gets wind Of it, He can't
for a minute see us making friends with
dis bakery gang. SO he calls "A meetin
at his park a uddcr afternoon before
he goes to Philadelphia and lays down de
law to us
Eny youse rascals." seq he, Il ketch
going TO work for dem outlaw guys why
yu needn't ever come back to Ebbets
Field That's what he seq. And he means
IL. can We beat that? I calls 1t goin
too far to stick do reserve rule on a poor
cink what ant no better dan Il ticket
chopper AT "A buck an Il half day"
Charles Hercules Ebbets has launched
his first shaft against his 'iowanus enc
mics. AZ mtimated above. The hired men
who gain temporary employment when the
Dodgers ar" at home will vouch for the
truth Of the lucid muleteor Business
Manager John NJ. Ward of the Federals
substantiatcs the charge. He claims that
the Ebbets help has deserted in a body
to the outlaws.
Big Chief Stallings. the leader OF the
Braves. figures Frank Chances New
Yorks as the real dark horse OF the Amer
lean League
"Chance IL one Of the greatest leaders
in the game" said Stalings yesterday
morning. 1T has taken a whole lot Of
nerve and a whole lot of executive ability
TO do what he has done. He simply
cleaned house with all the dead wood
built up what strikes me as one of the
best balanced clubs In the Johnson circuit.
Where Chance really made his team
was in the acquisition Of Truesdale. I
may be projudiced hut 7 think he il a
better ball player than Maisel He Is
as good a fielder as Maisel and will outhit
him too In a seasons stretch Though
no faster than Truesdale Maisel is the
better base runner. Fritz IL one of the
hest base runners in the country. But
Fritz will not get any more bases on
balls.
II am not trying to take anything from
/ Maiscl when compare Truesdal" so IA
| vorably to him. Fritz is just about a
/ fine a piece of work AS they come But
| later In the season when the pitchers
begin tn manipulate their midsummer
| hooks II Truesdale don't ouihit Masel
/ then Just take II for granted that there
| is nobody home under my skypiece."