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Big League Managers Predict Great
Future for National Amateur ORGANIZATION
DY HUGH 3. FULLERTON.

DY HUGH 9. FULLERTON.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. March 3d.
Major league managers are enthusiasts.
tic In their support OF the amateur
baseball league which this summer
will contest for the sectional and ma.
tional championships.
Mordecai Brown. leader of the st.
Louis Feds, said:
Practically all our great ball play.
ers come from small towns and from
obscure teams. There must be hun.
dreds OF men In the United States
who could be Cobbs or Johnsons with
proper training. The plan of a. fall
series between the winning teams will
keep them at IL all summer, and they
will turn out q lot Of good players.
The fact that there are three major
leagues In the field and not half
enough really good ball players to fili
them. shows how much the profess
sional game needs the development of
amateurs"
1T is great idea" said Hugh Jen-
nings, OF the Tigers, enthusiastically.
1T gives the amateurs some reward
for the seasons work and insures
good games In every section. The anna
teurs need q strong central govern
ment as much as the professionals
do"
Every boy ought to play ball un-
less he has lost leg or an arm" re-
marked Charlie Herzog, the new man.
ager OF the Reds. 1T Is great school
Ing In self-c0ntrol, In obedience to or
ders. and In learning to work with
others for the success OF the whole.
Every kid plays ball. of course. but
this amateur organization means more
and better amateur teams. Id 20 far
to see the final games between two
amateur teams that represent rival
cities In different sections of the coun-
try. Id break leg to be In such a
series. and medal won that way il
worth az much as years salary"
THE idea OF national organization
OF amateurs IL q grand one," said
George Stallings, of Boston's Braves.
THE trouble with amateur baseball
has been that there was nothing for
the teams to look forward to. 1t would
astound you to see how quickly the
boys learn. have seen q team pull
on play on the Boston grounds, ana,
while going home. l have seen the
boys on the lot near by practicing the
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real championship will keep them play.
ing all summer"
II have seen 1t work out In Cleve-
land suggested Manager Joe Birm-
ingham. Of the Maps. Cleveland 10
the best organized amateur city In the
country, and amateur baseball has q
great hold on the people. This has
been accomplished In Q few years, be.
cause the teams had the city cham
pionship to fight for, and then some
games with the champions Of other
cities.
Our amateur organization has de-
veloped more real ball players each
year. Cleveland Ia sending more good
men into the minor and major leagues
per capita than any town In America,
and that n just one Of the results or
the amateur league.
There Is another goo5 accomplish
Cd by the amateur organization which
makes me hope for, the big success OF
the National Amateur league. That
Is the fairer treatment OF players and
umpires by spectators. Spectators
who have played and who understand
baseball do not roast players or um-
pires. believe Cleveland has be-
come one of the fairest towns In the
country to players and umpires. main
ly because Of that fact"