The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-26
of Ball Players Soon To
Go South to infest Spring Camps;
But Five Great CenterS of Game

appreciate the value of clean 'liv-
ing: for they know condition
makes good players n that the bet
ter player will receive the most money
TOR his work aud last longer. During
the off months you will find the major
league players on long hunting trips
playing. ice hockey. taking long walks
and doing many other sensible things
that will help TO make them. fore ply
Scally perfect for a strenuous season
on the ball field. In the old days when
tie season was over it was a case of a
good time, taking things easy all vim
ter. and starting the regular season
with little or no training and ply
sically unfit for even a short baseball
season.
h prices now offered to a good
ball player are worth trying for. Sew
eral star players receive for six
months work from $4,000. to $15,-
600. while there are playing managers
that receive as high as $4,000. There
Is a fascination about baseball. es-
pecially the business end of it. There
are many uncertain features Of the
game: Often some man absolutely
unualif1ed for the place strikes a pay
ing vein and makes big money for a
time. thus alluring others into taking
4 gamblers chance. But the chances
tor success in baseball specializing is
poorer than money invested in the
dreamed-of mines Of Mexico. For one
winner in baseball there are eleven
blanks, hardly a fair gambling game
for a good sportsman.
Boston, New York, PHILADELPHIA.
Chicago and st. Louis are the great
baseball cities of this country. other
cities may do we'll at times. but these
cities are absolutely necessary in the
formation of any major league which
hopes to pay the high salaries now
demanded by the big league ball play
and st. Louis have really been the
backbone of baseball from the first
days of the profession Inc New York
has been the keystone city of the Ma.
tional league. Cities like Washington,
Baltimore, Cincinnati and Cleveland
must depend on the big money they
get at the five cities originally named
Boston. Philadelphia, New York.
Chicago and st. Louis can support
two clubs in fine style. We know Of
there is considerable talk about put
ting second teams in Washington,
Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Cleveland.
There is such a thing as OVERRIDING
business. thereby forcing the fans to
olVloe tnelr friendship into SO many
parts that the whole game will suffer.
The W Boston teams feel pretty
sure of signing up all of their regular
players long before showing up at
the spring camps. with perhaps the
exception Of iris Speaker. who is now
with the Comiskey-McGraw combina.
ton touring the world. Before leav-
Ing Boston last fall Jimmie McAleer
signed up Bill Carrigan, Heinie Wag-
ner and Joe Wood. and came to terms
with the Texas cotton grower. Speaker
said he was satisfied with the terms
would sign up later. but Tristram
mas a peculiar way of his owl, Of fiirt-
llns with the management until the
last day left open for signing con-
tracts. The chances are about ii to
l that the Texas sunset will be on
hand at Hot Springs, a little tired.
perhaps. after his series of entertain,
ments with the varicolored poten-
tates met on the world tour.