Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-16


known. and 1t behooves some bright
and far-seeing business men to take
an active interest in what is going on.
To invest money in baseball at this
time a man will have to be shown
but | understand President Barrow,
of the International League, will be
in a position when the time arrives to
give local interests a most alluring
bargain. There can be no mistake
about Newark being a winner, if
affairs are managed properly here
This season is not to be taken into
consideration at all, because of the
Federal League invasion; but with
the consolidation of the warning fac
lions the days of the outlaws" will
be over for years and years to come.
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Baseball in Newark is a dead issue
this season. The fans are sick and
tired of the way things have been
handled and they refuse to turn out
II see the games. On Sunday at the
double-header with the Providence
lit COnlCIu6iS lOI tie CIldln-
pionship, less than a thousand per-
sons were in attendance. At the
game yesterday there were not a
hundred present. 1t is believed that
this crowd" was the smallest that
has ever witnessed the leaguers play
in this city. Under any circumstances
the attendance this season would
have been light, but under the pres
ent regime the fans are thoroughly
disguised
The Giants are making it easier for
the Braves every day, and the Braves
are making it harder for the Giants
every game they play. Take yester-
days contests, for instance. Burns,
of the Giants, muffed an easy fly that
ultimately led up to defeat, while on
the other hand Maranville, of the
Braves, made a sensational throw
from deep short that brought his team
victory. 1t is the old, old story in
tional League pennant. Luck breaks
with the winners. The Braves are
in the lead, are the winners, and they
Will have the best of the luck of the
game They will get out of tight
holes, and they will win after the
darkest kind of an outlook, but the
poor old Giants, their feet slipping,
their hearts broken, will lose game
after game that looks to be sewed up
and won
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John McGraw and his men appear
to be beaten, and the odds are 21a to 1
that they will not win the pennant. |
They are three and one-half games
behind George Stallings and his crew,
with the Braves putting up the best
brand of ball. The series during the
next few days will about tell the tale.
The Western teams are here and the
Giants are glad of it. In the series
with Philadelphia and Brooklyn. New
York Jared poorly. while Boston,
against the same clubs, had high
old time While the Giants are I'M
popular both in Brooklyn and in Phil |
adelphia, the games on all sides were
strictly on the level The spirit to
beat the Braves may not be as keen
as the desire to beat the Giants, but
victory is earned only after an honest |
battle That is what makes baseball
the honesty of the game.
c.
A New York paper has it this morn
ing that there is no certainty that the |
Giants and the Yankees will meet in |
q series of seven games, if the Giants |
should fail to win the pennant. Frank
Farrell, owner of the Yankees, is
quoted as authority for the statement.
That is very strange, for it was gen.
orally understood that an agreement
had been reached whereby the Giants
and the Yankees were to meet when
ever both teams failed to win PEN
nant. Mr.. Farrell is quoted as saying
this is not SO, and / really believe that
in these dubious baseball times a Sc
ries is not desired.
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1t is said that a protest would be
made against series between the
Giants and the Yankees by Connie
Mack, of the Athletics. and James
of the Braves, the argument
being advanced it would detract from
the worlds series. That is some adj
and it may be so. but If the
Giants and the Yanks want to play
Mack and Gaffney would have a fine
old time stopping them. If Philadel-
phia and Boston are not able to sup
port a worlds series, the National
League and the American League |
better see to 1t that one of the New |
York teams is on the winning side |
every year. New York will support |
the big series, and its fans will pay |
any old price to see the games. In the |
games against the Athletics and in |
the games against Boston in the past |
three years New York has drawn ire |
mendous crowds. It is very doubtful |
If a worlds series with the Athletics
and the Braves will do anywhere near
as WE'LL
James II. Boughton, East Orange
The way to beat a game is to
cease talking about 1t. The more
publicity, the greater success. So
will do you a favor by not publish
ing your letter. Anyway, my sympa-
thy would do you little good a hun
dred years from now. You are an
honest man, your opinions are honest