Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-02

give some star player more money
than he can stand to pay out;
cycling promoter is roasted to Jeri-
cho and back again if some favorite
pedal pusher isn't satisfied to his
hearts desire. But why such liber-
atty with other peoples money, es-
pecially when the ones who are al
ways talking about and writing about
and advocating big salaries generally
receive only sufficient pittance for
their own existence? A man is worth
| anything he can get, but he is being
overpaid when it requires the efforts
of his friends to have his wages
boosted
G
AS one wanders over the field of
sport, three men stick out as par
ticularly interesting. One is the great
Mathewson l have just been talk
ing about, another is Frank l.. Kra-
mer, the king of cyclists, and the
other is William Hoppe, the knight of
the billiard cue. These three men
have been at the head of their pro-
fession for years, yet no one can
point finger at any of them. All
three have been champions, Matty
by the trend of popular opinion, and
Kramer and Hoppe by undisputed
efforts whenever their skill has been
| challenged. Matty, perhaps, is not
as good today as he ever was. but it
| is believed that both Kramer and
Hoppe are really at the top of their
game. Kramer is riding in Europe,
where he has become an idol be-
cause of his marvellous speed on a
wheel. and Hoppe only last week es-
tablished a now worlds record in an
important billiard match for the
championship of the world Mathew
son! Kramer! Hoppe! Those who
would condemn sports might first
match their own character against
such men as these.
G
baseball tourists have made. $500
over and above expenses. That isn't
so much when it comes to splitting it
UP so many ways. If it is true that
the globe trotters made money the
present trip will not be the last
one by any means. 1t was generally
|
on the tour it would not be doing
badly at all. The affair was not ar
ranged to make money, butsit was
not expected to lose money, either
dence that our national game is even
greater than we knew. To prove this
we would like to see some foreign
representatives travel around the
world and wake up with as much
money at the end of their travels.
C
The trip in every way was ire
mendous success and the final game
in London, at which King George was
present, just capped the climax ia
a wonderful tour. The boys are now
on their way home and they will be
given royal welcome when they
arrive. A banquet, the like of which
or the magnitude of which has never
before been given in the country. will
be held in honor of the tourists next
Saturday night at the Biltmore Hotel
in New York.
G
During the entire tour. both in this
country and abroad, the teams played
fifty games, and the White SoX, all
told, carried off the lions share of the
honors. In the team against-team
games, the White Sox won "a and the
Giants 20, and two Of the contests
ended in a tie. There were other
games in which the Giants won two
games and the White Sox won one
game against native teams, and q
combination of the Giants and the
White Sox won another game. The
players are coming back happy that
they made the trip, knowing ne less