Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-10

w kicking up quite cloud of
dust just now, the young
rfayers in organized baseball do not
wan. to be blinded by it.
Certain older players, who have
.ut. a few years of baseball life left,
have and will scurry to cover under
tine furry and help themselves to all
tho visionary good things" that are
being handed out so literally by the
promoters of the new league. who
have been behind the stormclouds
and aroused the preliminary dust just
for the purpose of befogging the un-
initiated.
The old timers are the ones who
Will be first to take advantage of the
boom. and they will be found in the
and-or when the clouds clear-to be
thc only ones benefited They will
have feathered their nests with the
preliminary coin at hand, which is
always too literally distributed, and
the youngsters who follow in the
wake of the wise old has beens" Will
only have the leavings-and the pick
ings of what is left will be very. very
measer
BECAUSE Joe Tinker Otto Knabe,
- Mordecai Brown and other play
ers, who have not more than three
years al the most to look forward to
in baseball, have jumped at the chance
to make this soft money and they
can not be blamed either for their de-
sire to make themselves well fixed
in their declining athletic years, still
the youngsters with a future ahead of
them should not follow like sheep
and make The plunge. They, if they
do that are leaving a certainty for
an experiment, and an experiment.
too that at the best outlook that can
be given it has nothing stable to
recommend 1t.
! have been through three wars in
baseball against organized baseball,
and know whereof | speak.
The Federal League has a perfect
right to launch out and try. The
new organization can not be called an
outlaw either, until it does some
thing 10 warrant the stigma title
When the Federal League attempts to
steal players from organized base
ball by inducing the latter to jump
the reserve rule, the bulwark of or
gained baseball, then the name out
law might be given them, but not
until then
T HE Federal League has just as
much right to start a baseball
league as the National or American
Leagues. to grasp new territory legal
III The only question for the play
efs 10 decide is the buttering of their
bread, and surely the side that has
always shown real butter and plenty
OF IL is preferable to the ones who
can lnly make promises and they
very doubtful of fult1llment.
Ii was a young player of promise,
] would take advantage of the pres
emit situation by signing long term
contract with club in organized
baseball. The player doing this will
be absolutely sure of his salary for
the term of years he signs for, and
al q salary that will be bigger than
Il me Federal League had not en-
erred into the field
Iae big leagues may pooh-po the
1t# league; decry its financial stand
pig and predict dire failure for it,
ha nevertheless the same old leagues
arr worried more than they care to
acknowledge, and nothing shows that
more than their Willingness in fact
desire TO sign their players for a term
q Years And this is Just the time
aal is offered the youngster and
YES .he oldster, to climb on to the
tn1wagon Of organized baseball. !
| an3 by the oldster / mean players /
'a3 nave been in the game as long
5s 5h.ef Meyers and others, who are
| apparently watching the drift OF
events with more financial sentiment
'an loyalty to the league and club |
1al made them