South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-10
WRITER'S FOOLISH
To HAMMER FEDS
Those Who Knock Outlaw Make
Some Peculiar and Funny
StatementS-League Should
Go UnmoIeSted Says Menke.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

NEW YORK. Sept 10.-Those
who like to read humorous things
ought TO become consistent readers of
the articles written by persons who
are overly friendly to organized base
ball and who bitterly hate the Feds
In their efforts 10 ridicule the Feds,
and their players the aforementioned
scribblers often overreach them
selves and slip over something ex-
tremely laughable.
Just the other day a writer Of this
"A large majority of the men in
organized baseball are in favor Of ig-
noring the Federal league for all
time"
He might have added also that
England. France and Belgium are in
favor of ignoring the kaiser hence
forth.
In another article this chap said
that the fans in Buffalo were souring
on Hal Chase because Chase, by
making brilliant plays, is showing up
some of his minor league teammates"
Taking il from this statement, the
people of Buffalo do not go to the
parks to see any brilliant playing No,
stree. They just want to see dub
playing. 1t makes them angry when
ever Chase. regarded as the greatest
first baseman in baseball. pulls some
play that is almost uncanny in its
speedy execution.
It's all right in the eyes of this
writer-and others of his kind-fOr
Ty Cobb. Eddy Collins and others to
execute some wonderful plays They
are in organized baseball But it
isn't all right for Chase. Tinker and
the others. They belong TO an out
law" organization.
The peculiar part of the present at
titude of this writer is that for years
he was one of Chases ablest cham
pions. He regarded him as the most
wonderful first baseman that ever
played the sack and time and again
he devoted heaps of space in telling
Of the wonderful brain of Chase that
enabled him to think out plays in a
fraction of a second.
But Chase no longer is a hero with
him He jumped to the Feds
1t seems almost time that the soft
pedal was played by those who have
been hammering the Federal league
ever since II became an organization.
Knocking the Feds isn't hurting the
Feds. And ridiculing them is only
bringing ridicule on the writer's If
they don't think the Feds are playing
first class brand of baseball that
doesn't make the opinion unanimous.
There are hundreds of thousands of
fans throughout the country who are
satisfied with the brand of baseball
put up by the Feds. and they are
willing to pay their money to see it.
Those who have seen some of the
Fed games this year and also some of
those played in the American and Ma
tional leagues do not think there is
such a wide difference in the relative
quality of the games. Surely the
Feds cannot be putting up any worse
games of baseball than have the
Maps. Yankees. Dodgers and Pirates
! at certain times this year And in
every game the Feds have tried to do
the very best they could whereas. in
as if the Maps tried to find out just
how poor a game Of baseball they
could put up.
The Feds aren't cluttered up with
stars of the National and American
leagues But they have enough to
form a neUcles. They are developing
some of their own players and in an
other year. when the general preju-
dice against the Feds wears away,
the fans will find that in the ranks OF
the outlaws there are some young
sters who rank alongside of the best
in the old leagues.