The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-07-28
ECONOMY PROGRAM
PUTS NAP N|hEIDOWN
Kalkenberg Jumps to Feds
When Refused Reward for
Unusual Work.

NEW YORK. July 2S-Thts Is
story ofNhow the 1914 ,pennanti chances
OF the A.leveland American league
team werA practically wrecked by Gu
pidlty> thaA resulted. in saving about
$1,000.
II Il a story, Ntoo. Of how Charles W:
i6omers, the Cleveland magnate stands
to suffer a\loss ,of 100000 this season
Instead of making a profit of from
500. OeO to Ns3ao. O00.N all because he
wanted to ddle out a. small lreward to
IA pitcher wh6se brilliant work during
THE 1919 seas1n Kept the Maps In the
isht all the way and enabled the club
to clear something Ike $l50. 600:
"Cy" Falkenbasrg was the hurler
who kent the Naps Ia the ,10l3 pennant
hgnt. He won the first, ten games
lpitched and\ finished the season with
an average near the top. Such WORK:
in Falkenbsrg\s minds and in that OF
every fair ni1aed fam wast deserving
OF siseable bdost intpay.
Did Falkenbeeg getN i@ Nay, nay.
Somers instead Aef giving Falkenberg
10 boost Of about ,$1600pa year, offered
him an increase thats>amounted to
about $1.53 q day. taco0rdins to Fal-
fA9nU0A b ANU "AANAAS oSsASoA>AS~AS 49,
lers does not deny.
Jumps to Feds.
Falkenberg, disgusted, jumped to
the Feds. They made himaan offer far
In excess of that of Somers.: They rec
ognized worth and we're, willing to pay
the full price, Falkenber&'s heart had
been in his work in Cleveland. He
would have preferred to remain there.
and undoubtedly would have remained
on the Maps roster If SoHasers had Of
uered about $1,000, more. But Somers
didn't. He ,overloeked the fact that
the Federal leagueNwas a haven for
the underpaid, stars.
With Falke1berg on the firing line
in anywhere near his 1913 form, the
Maps now would be in aspeAnant 1ght
instead Of hopelessly in the rut. The
ldeplorable weakness of its pitching
letaff has kept the Clevelanders in the
cellar practically from the outset OF
the season. Outside of Gregg they
haven't a dependable pitcher and the
demoralized> condition Of the| pitching
stan has disheartened the entire
team 1t has<taken the 1ght and spir
1t out Of thenA They have come to fee
that no matter how brilliantly they
field. no matter how terriflcgtheir hit
ting, the mOunHm0n cannot snOIo Tie
opposition in check.
@| Would Chance Case.
II Falkenberx had been with the
Maps, no would hsve been good for al
least ten victories that have resulted
lin defeat for the Maps. Manager Biz
mingham. with FaNkenberg on his stat
would not have called on his kid twir
'lers SO often. He wouldn't have to ex
pertinent so much. The result woulC
have been at least ten of the games
that have been lost would have beer
won by Falkenberg.
Furthermore, II the Maps had wor
those ten games instead of LOSING
them, It would have enthused instead
Of disheartened them. They would
have played better baseball and tough
harder, and, no doubt, would have wor
at least six of the other games tina
they have thrown away by Indifferent
work.
Think Of what a difference thi.
would have made to the Maps! July
is regarded as the half way mark IL
the .baseballi season. This year it fount
the maps with standing of rs game
won and As lost for a percentage O
1852.
II Falkenberg has been with then
and those 16 games had been won in
stead of being thrown away by mise1
able pitching and inconsistent, feature
less playing, the standing of the Nap
on July 9Th would have been Al CINE
won and 81 lost, for percentage o
.569. This would have put them jus
a jump behind thel league-leading Ath
letics-and with a fine chance TO
worlds series honors.