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LATOIE TALKS ON PLAYERS
RIGHTS ON SALARY QUESTION
Clevelands Batting Star Says Public Has Been
Guessing to Size of His Check
Compares Players With Actors.
BY NAPOLEON LAJoIE.

The salaries of base ball players al
ways have furnished live topics for
discussion and probably always will.
I should imagine that during my
eighteen years in the major leagues 1
have read almost that many thousand
guesses rega rding the size of my checks.
Some of the guessers have been kind
enough to state that perhaps I was
worth a great deal as a drawing card.
Others were unkind enough to compare
the salary earned by me in base ball
to the salary that ] might earn in 9TH
er lines of endeavor, with none too
respectful view of my earning power
outside of base ball.
Unfortunately there are and have
been some magnates who took the lat
ter view of the salary question, though
l might assert that a good number of
them have been somewhat more lib
eral in their views.
l suppose ball players always will be
forced to contend with such compari-
sons.
that practically every fan has heard
at some time or other:
How much does Ty Cobb get:'
"Oh, about $4,000 per-
Iretty So1t, en-. Easy money Like
stealing 1t. Just to think that big guy
who never earned college degree
draws down $4,000 just for playing
ball couple of hours a day while lots
of college graduates can't make that in
a lifetime. Why. Ty and those other
or singing a sledge."
There's a concrete expression of the
attitude of many people toward base
ball players salaries.
Players Compared With Actors.
But does any one ever spring the same
question about actors or actresses? How
much do you think Caruso could earn if
he was not &c great singer? Probably
not a great deal, but is that an argument
to prove that he is a much-overpaid man
in his chosen profession?
If Nat Goodwin or James *. Hachett
or any one of hundred stars that one
might mention was taken off the stage
does any one think for a minute that he
or they could earn as much money as
they do on the stage? Certainly not.
They are paid for their ability to draw
money into the box office. For exactly
the same reason is base ball player
entitled to a fair salary.
And by fair salary l don't mean
eight. nlne ten or fifteen hundred a
year. mean ldli poitiou VI tAS
money that is taken in at the gate.
It's that gate which should determine
a players salary and not his power for
earning In other lines Of activity.
1t must be remembered that major
league player Is In reality an artist in
his own profession. He represents or is
supposed to represent the highest in his
line of work. He is chosen from among
thousands, yes, from among millions. He
is a rare creature. 1t Is well known
$k~s,H cSYtNy
are the higher the price.
He is the one VINO draws people into
base ball plants, who helps to make our
fine modern plants possible, who has
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Needs Protection for Future.

Don't YOU think man who gives so
much should receive much in return?
Man values those years between twenty
and thirty-five highly. If he chooses. and
If the demand for him Is great enough
to have him give up those precious years,
surely the recompense should be large
enough to protect him for the rather I'M
certain future which follows his with
drawal from base ball.
Every now and then one hears the cry
about the gradual increase in base ball
salaries hears the old refrain about how
Garrison, Radbourne and others worked
for 81 200 or S1,300 year, etc. with the
inference, of course. that the players OF
today are overpaid
In the days of Clarkson and Radbourne
base oall was not conducted on such a
scale as now. The sport has grown and
salaries have naturally grown with the
sport, and should have grown. for the
profits to the clubs have grown.
The ball player of today, too, is an in
dividual Of a higher type than he was
twenty or thirty years ago. The average
has assembled upward. The ambition and
energy which the successful ball players
of today put into their work would bring
them some measure of success In many
other lines Of work.
The fierce competition that exists has
had a tendency to improve the class.
There isn't a ajor league club in the
land now which doesn't possess several
men who have used their brains for profit
in other lines of work.
\ close scrutiny of the diamond stars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
ENTERS RACING GAME.
Eduardo Cautino to Race Horses in
This Country,

NEW YORK. January 1U.-Eduardo
Cautino, secretary of the Porto Rico rae
ing commission. viii try his luck over
the American race courses next summer.
He has written that he will bring two
horses from San Juan. One is a coming
two-year-old by Ornament-dam, star
Dreamer-and the other a filly Of like
age. the breeding of which he has NOT
made known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
AFTER BIG CONTESTS.
Majority of Golf Clubs Anxious tt
Have Championship Tourneys.

NEW YORK. January 1O.-Now that
the golf championship tournaments have
developed into important international
contests. there is a tremendous rivalry
among the clubs for the privilege of
staging the events. There is hardly a
green's committee in the country that is
not generously and eagerly asking for
the honor of having their bunkers. haz-
ards fairways and green's trampled and
cut up by the seekers after solfing fame
and the attendant galleries.
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Whlte champion.
Willard. in knocking out the Buffalo
aspirant. One-round Davis. and more
recently George Rodel. the Boer. has
done his share in bringing the white
hope situation to a point where bat
tie between Smith and himself Will
satisfactorily determine the question of
the best big man in American pugilism.
Willard occupies a peculiar position
in the game. At times he shapes. up
as the best big man who has been I'M
covered in the past three years. and
al others his work is decidedly medi-
ocre. But the same thing can also be
said of his rival. the Gunboat. Smith
shows flashes of real class now and
then. and also pulls an occasional per-
Torrance that makes him look an ELI
-ibIe for the "Bonehead' Club. Against
Carl Morris the Gunboat fought like
the veriest amateur. He must have
known that his rushes against a man
outweighinc him fifty pounds would
hardly help his chances. Still every
round found him taking a head-on
collision with the gigantic Oillahoman.
and gradually growing weaker from
the efforts it cost him Finally, and 1t
vas apparently lucky thing for MIR.
Smith, the ea gle-eyed referee caught
Norris hiitin. below the belt and
stopped further Proceedings. Very
fortunate for The Gunboat. judging
from appearances. If ever boxer
looked ready to Ii. down and curl up
FOR the rest Of the evening Gunboat
Smith was tn" gent.
Strange that while Carl Morris is re-
q; r,lsd a., Il big dub who will never know
c,,uprh Of thr t;n,,r minis of the game to
got him anything. he manages to give the
Ic.t,liH., hopes IN awful time of it when
~ ~ ' S,,;,t -, -" ~ III, ~, .,,,,,a-1
80 VI ,!'e 7,''',n up"u W.. ~ pa
III, ""u - ueM VI. o"nii' -, l'i' ,
SUR 'Not llp''' p"idiS "''eht ne ,iHu az
MINISTER'S" WITH ms hsts' iot tdr'' WINE
possessing Il par o. muscular arms, never
Sc'i'1S 1" know what 10 90 with them, Dut
simply by force of superior weight ana
bulk: by leaning on his smaller opponent
whenever the opportunity oHered-which
was half dozen times or more in each
round
Md when he clashed with Willard a
few weeks later less fought his worst
hath. II Looked 10 me at the time that
U-;I,.,r,i ,oiiid hay. ended the affair al
,,nst my tim. n, cared To- but he re-
e,,,.d IL o.-fa,,, b;r,s.rf Now and then
- " c,,. ho,I,b,. u,1Innr md
" -, ;,, :, ,,,,oI M, ..c,r
"" :. -; o.. U.iii.ra u,o,Id
laihH -, . 49,. o..,
ran ~ 'oho" ~ i'io az
lh1lN content 10 win on poiits. Ltiue.sy
tue newspaper citticisii iese'-u d MN
must have mad us erect however LOT
since then, stopping one-round DAVIS IN
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with getting a pitchers arm in shape.
followed instructions.
Saved Mac for the Bush League.

Saved Mac for the Bush League.
Il joined the club in Detroit and an
nounced myself ready to pitch. 1t SO hap
pened that the team had game to play
In Springfield, Ill. McAleer suggested
that it would be good idea for me to try
myself out against the minor league team
I regarded it as an excellent plan my
self. l told McAleer il I didn't keep the
'bushers' to less than ten hits ] would
resign on the spot. The day for the
game finally arrived. l have always
that contest.
Il warmed up in good shape, my arm
felt fine and for a few minutes I was
foolish enough to think that I was GER
tain to come back. ] managed to es-
cape fairly well in the first inning, mainly
through some nice fielding. In the second
trouble began. and it continued for the
rest of the game. In order to cut ex-
penses as much as possible, SO as to make
the shares of the players all the greater,
was the only pitcher taken. couple
of the infielders wanted to take up the
burden, but I insisted on finishing. The
Springfield team made twenty-seven hits
and almost as many runs. That evening
] handed in my resignation. 1 would
have probably been carried the rest of
the season, but I couldn't take money
under such false pretenses.
Saved Job Of Two Veterans.
There is only one pleasing feature
in connection with my farewell appear
ance as a pitcher, which was made in
the bushes. Through my poor pitching
lad saved the jobs Of a couple of vet
IN for olooS
Both Of these players made five hits
each in this game. On the strength of
such work the manager decided not to
release them. Ability to hit me gave the
players confidence. and l am told they
stuck few years longer on the strength
of the showing they had made in the last
game l ever pitched. In losing my own
job l had saved two others.
II don't know how other pitchers feel
when they are slipping, but it was an
awful blow to me to see fellows vino
were once easy for me hitting my offer
ings on the nose. l can always recall
a home-run drive made off me in 1909
by fellow who formerly considered HIM
self lucky if he made foul. That swat
was one of the first limitations that as
pitcher l was destined to be a better
umpire. Every now and then I see some
pitcher laboring in the majors who should
have done as 1 did-quit when l was all
in. All 1 regret is that 1 was foolish
enough to have pitched that last game
against the 'bushers.'
1t surely is hard lesson to learn, the
proper time to retire. Jim Jeffr1es would
passed up Jack johnson. Bat Nelson
would have been wise II he had forsak-
en- the ring a couple Of years ago. The
word retire Is a hard one for the athlete
to grasp.
Copyright. 1914, by ". G. Evans,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
RACING IN COLORADO.
Sport to Be Given a Big Boom This
Season.

NEW YORK. January lo.-RacinS in
Colorado is due for one of the most in
terestins seasons on record IN 1914 The
new state racing commission appointed
by Gov. L. NJ Ammons will meet at the
statehouse Friday, January 16. for or
sanization. The selection of a secretary
and discussion of any business which
may be brought formally before The body
is the program.
The chief business Will be the discus
sion OF arrangements for a spring meet
ing in Denver Gov. Ammous is heartily
in favor OF race meeting III the spring,
as is every member of The commission.
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helped to make base ball our greatest
national entertainment.
Bank Clerk in Base Ball.

He possibly would not be worth a nickel
as bank clerk, but bank clerk would
De worth less than nickel i'll major
league uniform. A bail player in the
clerks cage might create the impression
that he is there for a purpose, but a
bank clerk i'll players uniform never
would convince any one that he was
ball player.
l have dwet at length on that phase
of the question because it is the one
which is most often brought out for
the public to look at
|. Ty Cobb'S remarka BILE skill, which has
helped to make the Detroit club wealthy.
should also help to bring back Ty some
share of that wealth.
II the New York club can realize
twenty-five or fifty thousand dollars
which it does-because of the extra draw
ing powers of Christy Mathewson. sure
percentage of that amount.
y There's another side of that salary
question worthy of comment.
The ball players base ball life is of ne
cessity a short one. The ball player gives
the best years of his 1ife-the years be-
tween eighteen, nineteen or twenty and
say about thirty-five or forty-to the
sport.
He gives the game those years during
which the ordinary man makes the
foundation and builds for the future
Men outside Of base ball expect to reach
the crest of prosperity in their special
age of forty the ball player must or
should be prepared to start a new life,
to start life in comparatively foreign
field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

First Baseman Harry Swacina OF the
Newark club of the International League
has written a letter to friend saying
that one of the men behind the Federal
League has approached him with an Of
fer Of $4,000 to sign a three-year con-
tract to play first base for the Pitts
burgh Federal League team. -
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White Hope Title Has Narrow
ed to These Two Fighters.
GUNBOAT AND JESS
GOING WELL OF LATE
Defeat of Pelkey Can Be Classed as
Lucky Performance
by the Victor.
BY JAMES ]. coRBETT.

Former Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. January 10.-By beating
Tommy Burns highly touted fighter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11

Arthur Pelkey,
Gunboat S m j t h
has strengthened
his position as
one of the lead
ers of the heavy
weight division.
But until he dis
poses of big Jess
Willard the press
and public will
h a r d l Y concede
him the title of
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Sporting Editor Star:
kindly give games Bob Groom pitched
against New York during the season
Of 1872 SUBSCRIBER.
April 16, Washington 10, New York );
April 81. Washington 5. New York o;
May %, New York 8, Washington 5:
July 4, Washington IL, New York /;
August 80, Washington Z, New York >;
october f. Washington 4. New York =.
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Inquisiitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
Will you please publish in next Sun
days Star (answer and qutsion) Of the
sporting sheet to satisfy two parties
In dispute. Please answer the following
question: Did Clark Griffith serve the
Cincinnati club as manager more than
one season, or how long did he serve
it? VIII appreciate your answer.
S. p.
1910, 1911.
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il is said that Catcher Magic of the
New Haven club is being sought by the
r..ieIal I.casuers.
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BLACK Cwinsattl.
WHITE fTusiassy).

IL .-..-. nhQbf :s'o'
5SeHBs k-R
Il Boz Resigns, mate in
IA II IL QxktP K-Q2 with a hne attack.
tb) Here Q-R5 very tempting for Blsch.
e for as n.E IL OBJ oxR u ktlkE
BxI'. 19QxPch B-Q3ch! and mate in few
moves. But White could reply with IS P-Kkti,
and to Blacks ktxkt. u Qxkt! with the better
game
&c, There Is nothing fear from Ii o-Q3, as
Black answers. P-kkt3. 1G B-R6 R-k, Ia
Q-Qi BIB.
tdj Now with B-kte Black would have ecu
ready to begin operations on the side His
careless blunder leaves him utterly without
source. and the game could have well been
signed at this point.
Capablanca continues to trim the Euro
pean masters as fast as they can be in
duced to meet him. his latest victims
being Alechine and Snosco-Borowsky, the
st. Petersburg stars. Evidently alarmed
lest these conquests dim the importance
OF his coming match with Rubinstein for
the worlds championship, DIR. Lasker is
out with a statement in which he gives
his reasons for thinking that Rubinstein
is stronger than Capablanca. His main
argument seems to be that as Capablanca
comes from warm country, where ma
turity is reached early in life. he should
be pretty well played out by now. This
should be cheering news to those contem-
plating matches with the great Cuban.
PROBLEM BY W. MEREDITH.
BLACK.
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Sporting Editor Star:
To decide bet. Philadelphia at WASH
ington, score 8 to Z at the end of the
first half Of the 9th inning. in Philadel-
phia's favor. Washington scores one
run it its half; none out when game is
called on account of rain. Is game won
or tie game? Publish in pink sheet.
NJ. " o. c.
iv ito popne
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How About Those Dull
Safety Razor Blades?

Are yol eoln- 10 throw them away.
Don do - i'iiHS them in 10 US. We sharpen
then "ltb an electric machine. Cjyiu. them scea.
lasting edges. Charges vPCy low.
- DoiPE 4 WEST co, 1a3. y. y. ave.
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Sporting Editor Star:
Please publish in your Sunday pink
sheet the three leading pitchers in the
East Washington Sunday School League
last year: games won and lost. Also
three leading hitting pitchers. Thanking
you in advance, I am.
CLIFFORD WILLIAMS.
These records are not obtainable.
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Ernest Knapp Proves Clever ir
Stars Correspondence
Tournament.
SCORE DISPLAYS WINNERS
TRICKY OPENING AND PLAY
Tusinsky Scores Victory Over Vim.
satt Through Common Mistake.
Chess Problems and Games.

To Mr.. Ernest NJ. Knapp. the youngest
player in The Stars correspondence tour.
ney. goes the honor of winning the first
game finished in the final round. This
game, the score of which follows is
very clever example of correct and bril-
liant play in tricky opening and needs
no comment beyond the excellent notes
furnished by Mr.. Knapp
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STORY "MR. Barnes.
OF new YORK.

MIR. BARNES OF NEW
YORK, a wealthy American, ttav
ENG ia Europr, meets Count
Musso Dauella, who invites The
American 10 visit his estate III
Corsica " lille tn -, Barnes
meets Marina Paon, the Counts
ward, who is auAl5usly awaiting
the return of her bio,bur, ADto.
mo. an officer in the service of
France A few days later, Barnes
fails in an attempt 10 prevent "A
d g between Antonio aud an
L gliSh officer, who Kills Ant mic
a q leaves behind a revolver Dor
rived from brother officer.
4 Marina and the Count arrive after
the English officer had boarded
his sup, Marina sweating ven
grnnce against her brothers IN
known slayer.
In her search for the English
officer, Marina, the Count and To
masso, her foster father, go TO
/ Fcypt They arrive after the
4 humbaidment of Alexandria, IN
July, 1857, and thelt search takes
ihem even INTO the hospitals filed
with the wounded. There Marina
meets Lieut.. Gerald Anstruther,
who has been baby lLjured, and
whom she nurses back TO health.
Later they fall III love.
IN the meantime Barnes meets
an falls in love with Lieut.. An.
at uthers sister, Enid In Monte
Carlo, Barnes and End meet Ma
rina, Enid learning that Marina
and her brother are engaged.
Business takes Barnes to London.
While he is gone, the Count, from
Glbraliat, advises Marina that he
has found her btotber's slayer.
Ills suspicious are founded on the
fact that the revolver with which
Antonio was Killed is the property
of Lieut. Anstruther The Count
does not know that Marina is en-
gagged 10 the English officer.
The Count succeeds in bringing
the Lieutenant 10 Nome Carlo.
Marina, through heI love, has
abandoned her vende Ia, and the
Count, through jealousy, deter :
mi ic To permit Marina to marry
tav Lieutenant befole he tells her
tl4t il ~ the Lieutenant whom
SIC seeks to destroy. Barnes, IN
London, learns Of the conditions,
aud Knowing Lieut.. Anstiuther 10
lie guil4l"sS, hastily returns 10
Corsica lie arrives few hours
after the wedding.
The Count tells Marina that she
has married her bro hers slayer
aud eude ivors TO have her kill her
husband. She refuses, Wherein
on Tom 1850, the foster father,
proceeds 10 carry out the vendei-
IA. Through mistake, Tomasso
kills the Count instead, and
Barnes arrives just in time to ex.
plain everything, recall Marina to
her husbands love, thus prevent
! ing further bloodshed. He also
succeeds in his own love affair
with Enid. Eks' Theatre, Tues
day, Aug. 4th
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SHERIFF SALE
State or Louisiana,
Parish of iberia.
10th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
Iberia Building Association
vs. No $3.50
Robert Erltsche.
SHERIFF SALE

Notice il hereby given that hy vir.
tue OF md in obedtcuCe TO writ OF
Fieri Facias, issued out of the above
enilled and numbered cause and to
me directed. !, George Henderson.
Sher II, through Frank ] Mestayer,
Deputy Sheriff have seized and will
offer for sale and Will sell at public
auction, For Cash, to the last and
CHEST bidder at the Court House, in
the City of New Iberia, Louisiana, be
tw cen legal sale hours
On Saturday, August 22nd, 1914,
the following described proterty, to
wit:
contain lot Of ground together
with all the buildings and improve
ments thereon and thereunto belong
ing and all appurtenances thereof sit
uated within the corporate limits OF
the City of New iberia, Iberia Parish,
| State OF LOUISIANA, measuring fifty
feet front on the East side OF st. Pc
ter street, by depth between paral-
! lei lines of one hundred and forty
! four feet, bounded in front or on the
! West by the said st. Peter street, III
the rear or on the East by property OF
! Robertson or assigns, above or on the
North by property of Mrs, Guiltoux
and on the South by property of Jos
| ComeauS or assigns.
To pay and satisfy the sum of Six
hundred and fifty dollars with inter
est thereon at the rate OF per cent
per annum from Nov. 18th, 1911, until
paid, subject however to credit 81
Thirty five 2I.l0u dollars and also foi
an amount equal to ten per cent OF
said sum in principal and interest as
attorneys fees, further Tor Five % lot
dollars premium. paid for the insur-
ance, further the sum of twenty three
% 100 dollars taxes pSid and still q
further amount of eight dollars due at
fines and all costs of these proceed
ings.
Given officially this 18th day o.
July, A. d. 1914.
GEO. HENDERSON,, Sheriff
per II. J. Mestayer, Dty Sheriff
Weeks & Weeks, Attorneys