Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22


to do to kill off the Feds. but the men
who have put so much money in the
game in the big show feel that
there isn't room for another major
organization. Discussion as to the
advisable of third big league has
been going on ever since the Federal
League broke loose, and 1t seems more
like coming to a head now than ever.
The matter was discussed in New
York Saturday among magnates of
the ma ors and the minors, and after
the session il was announced that
Ban johnson, president of the Ameri-
can League. would be in a position in
ten days to announce some definite
plan for carrying out the scheme. The
news has stirred up baseball to such
an extent that it has frightened sew
eral of the magnates, who declare that
there isn't enough talent in baseball
to man the present two major leagues.
While all that is true. when the third
major league comes along il will have
its stars and its punks Just the same
las the National League and the Amer
lean League. Another claim is made
that the cities suggested for the new
third big league aren't big league
cities This is also true. but if the
right cities are selected the proposed
third big league will be a go just the
same. With the draft eliminated and
the prices increased the club owners
will be in position and have heart
to spend money to secure good play
ers and the new league will eventually
vie with the big fellows.
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The plan now. it seems, is to select
four cities from the international
League and four cities from the
American Association, making an
Eastern and Western circuit, the
same as exists in the two big leagues.
of the International League clubs
mentioned for places in the new
league. Newark is one of the first
choices. The other possibilities seem
to be Toronto, Buffalo and Baltimore.
In the West, the circuit-tixers have
named Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kan
sas City and Louisville. After sign
ing up this combination of cities it is
difficult to see how the proposed third
league could be called a big league
If the powers that-be in organized
baseball really meant to create a new
third big league they would go to the
International League and the Ameri-
can Association for all their cities.
If they really meant busness-meant
to form a third big league. which
isn't likely-they would have gone over
the two major circuits and selected
some of those cities. OF course, Il
might come into the International
League Tor one or two cities. and the
same would be true of the American
Association. but to make big league
possible big league cities would have
to be in the circuit. For instance
Brooklyn, Washington and Pitts
burgh could be selected although
Toronto instead of Brooklyn would
not be a bad choice. In the West,
Cincinnati, Detroit. Cleveland and In
diahopolis would look very good, al
though Louisville might prove a bet
ter city than indianapolis. But what
ever baseball magnates are capable
of, they will never be able to make a
big league organization out of minor
league cities.
There may be good, sounu sense in
a new big third league, but the prop
ositlon given publicity on Saturday is
a joke of the highest order. Perhaps
it was done to give the Feds a scare
and maybe it was done to appease the
minds of some minor leaguers who
were doing a lot of worrying. What
ever the reason, it doesn't sound like
an intelligent proposition, and as far
as selecting four cities from the In
ternational League and four cities
from the American Association is con-
cerned, no one who has studied the
matter at all will give it much cred
ence. If third big league is formed
it will contain, mostly, big league
cities.
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That the Feds have given organized
baseball a lot Of trouble there isn't
a doubt in the world. but as far as the
Feds vieing With the regulars for
patronage, why, that isn't so at all.
The Feds are going along because
there is a LOT of money behind them.
and those who have invested it hate
to give up the ship. In any event
baseball this year would not have been
| much of a money maker, but the
| Feds have made it worse and worse
| The big leagues haven't suffered halt
as much as the minor leagues as a
result of the outlaws" and the fail
ure Of the Feds to make good
is attributed more to the fact that
they are crying that they are big
league when in reality they have
clubs mostly in minor league cities
But Feds or no Feds, the third bis
league as proposed Saturday doesn'
seem possible at all
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Champion Frank Kramer has woI
three more bike races. but if you lis
ten to the chirpings of the "Killjoys'
he should have been beaten in al
three. On Friday night. at New
Haven, Kramer won two out of thre
heats in match race from jack
Clark. Reports from the scene of tn
battle said that Clark didn't try T.
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