Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-10
Sport Copies 6 Che -four

E Louisville, of the American Associs
t ton. lost twenty-six straight game
i. in 1889"
Cheer up, fans, things could b
3 worse in our own old town.
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q Talking about our own town and GU
; own ball club, President Junior Eb
. bets. of the Tigers, has consummate
: another deal in which his c-ther an
the Brooklyn club are interested. Fl
Myers will go to the Superbas in ex
change for Tex Erwin, who will pla,
first base for our team This will
mean that jeff Holmquiss, tn,
pitcher, who has been playing frs
base, will be able to take his turn ii
the box. Mr.. Ebbets says the dea
will work to the advantage of boil
clubs and we are going to take Mr.
Ebbets's word for it.
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This last deal is about the last
straw, and the fans are sure to make
big holler. OF course, it is up tc
Mr.. Ebbets to conduct his business
as he sees fit, but he will have to put
up with the consequences. He has a
good abb in that the local fans
haven't supported the club all season
but that is so the country over. II
is all right for the Brooklyn mag
mates to take the Newark players
/, but they will never be able to open
i their mouths in protest, no matter
how poorly the fans support the
team in the future. The way players
are being juggled is more evidence
that local men should control local
baseball teams.
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Our old friend. Smoke Miller, arises
to defend the ball player. 1t is only
natural, for Smoke is one of the dia-
mond brigade. He also makes COM
parisons-suggests newspaper men
wouldn't like to be traded or sold as
are ball players. I don't know about
that, but I do know If the time ever
comes when newspaper men are able
! to draw down as much money for
doing as little work as ball players
the scribes wouldn't look a ball game
in the face. The ball player is not
| abused. In fact, he gets the best of
1t at every turn. The magnate spends
the money and takes the chance and
the player gets his whether school
Keeps or not. In baseball the players
salary goes on rain or shine, or
whether the gate is large or small.
His salary is never reduced. In other
business enterprises it is different.
Just as soon as things become dull
there is a retrenching of expenses.
The number of employees is reduced
and the salaries are cut But the
ball player gets his whether or no.
Smoke, it looks as if you had made
the first error of your career in
taking the "magnates" to task How
ever, we will present your case in the
following letter:
]. P. N:
Hello, Joe-Well. Joe, I've been away
for three weeks, and just got back to
the old town for a day or two. I've
been with Allentown, of the Tri-State
League, for three weeks. They're all
Dutch in this burg, Joe. I guess that's
why they give guy named Miller
chance. | always get the worst of it.
just because I'm Dutch. If my name
was Kelly or O'Rourke I'd have been
playing with Mack or McGraw long
ago, but unless | change my name /
guess I'll have to be satisfied with
Allentown or Cincinnati
Well, this is a hard year on base
ball, anyhow, and I see a lot of the
newspapers are beginning to throw it
into the ball player and blame 1t on
him. Even you, yourself, had few
words last week calling attention to
the way ball players were jumping
about and taking more money when
1t was offered them. Say, Joe, the
Nuggets (maggets is right for thirty
years have been mixing this dose for
themselves. Now let them take it.
They have been throwing it into the
ball player and daring him to jump
when there was no place for him to
| jump to, but now that he has found
place to light he's an migrate if he
does. Besides, the magnets haven't
given the ball player anything yet.
Joe, they're just sort of paying up
! their back dues. Suppose your boss
! had the power to fire In ten days or
| the right to trade you to some hiclI
newspaper on the sod-buster circuit,
and you knew he'd do it sooner or
later, and one of the big New York
| papers offered you a job at double
your present salary for the rest of
your newspaper life, and guaranteed
the amount and the length of your
contract, ! suppose your loyalty to
i the guy who was ready at any min
ute to put the rollers under you
would prevent you from accepting
! Sure.
The magnets or their managers
didn't make any of the great ball
players we have today, Joe. The Lord
made the star ball player, chance
tplaced him on a certain team and
clean living and hard work made a
star of him, and until lately the mag
nets got all the profit that resulted
in his development. If the manage
ment of a team could develop another
Cobb ii would do so, and the fact that
Il cannot is proof that the player
himself is the most necessary thing
in the development of a star. and nc
one will deny that it is the stars such
as Cobb that make the turnstiles
click. So II these are the men thai
bring the dough into the game, why
shouldn't they take most of it out
The magnets don't do anything bu
collect. Joe. Look at me, one of thu
best all-round players the game eve
produced, and they Won't give me {
chance with team better than AL
lentown. But I'll get there yet, Joe
and, believe me. when ] do start tn
| tho nike will max