Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-11

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Brooklyn mans pocket but it WASH
the first touch this season at that.
is all well enough to stand out fire.
and clear and holler gutter at tn
other fellow. but when the old bank
roll begins to show signs of diminish
ing, it requires some deep thinking t,
figure out way to make both end
meet. Under the circumstances tn
Brooklyn magnates are playing wei
within their. rights. The war hai
created havoc and the bad times ar,
were as they should be, Mr. Ebbets
and his associates would not think,
am sure. of taking players away from
Newark
Take the case of Jack Dunn in Bal
timore. The fans, when it came to
the pinch, deserted him and went over
to the Feds. although Dunn worked
like a beaver and spent his money
literally to secure high class team.
Now his labors have gone for naught,
and he will be lucky, indeed, if he
gets out of the town with red cent
Dunn is one of the best managers in
the country, and there is sympathy all
over the circuit for him. He is the
only club owner in the International
League who will be really hurt. All
the others can stand their losses
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The National Commission is not
playing fair in this baseball war. In
the first place the commission tricked
the minors by a wild promise of
creating a new third big league. This
was not done. of course, and the
members of the commission must
have known that 1t would not be
done Still they led Jack Dunn and
others to believe that they would
stand by them and see that they were
protected. They haven't done any
thing of the kind. They have some
thing more than 81 100000, it is said,
as an emergency fund and still they
wouldn't come to the aid of the Balti-
more club. Instead, they have
forced Dunn to sell his best players
to the big clubs and thereby not only
wreck his own team, but, perhaps,
in the same way the whole league
will become disrupt.
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The major leagues and the Ma
tional Commission have shown their
hand in this fight. They have proved
to everybody that they are for them
selves first, last and all the time.
They have held the whip hand on
the minors for years and they have
never given them an even break. They
take their good players for GER
tain sum and they turn their poor
players back at a big advance in
salary. They rule them when things
are all right and they allow them
to go to ruin when things are all
wrong. In the present war it is the
little fellows who are suffering the
most. The big fellows can stand a
slump for a while at least. TIE Ma
tional Commission might have put
a few hundred thousand dollars into
the International League and the
American Association, and it would
not have been doing anything more
than it should have done. If the
time ever comes, maybe the minors
VIII find a way to manage them
selves.
Freddie Welsh has the worlds
lightweight championship, and he will
likely keep it for some time to come.
Before he fought Willie Richie 1t was
understood that there was to be an
other battle between them in this
country in November That was the
understanding, but it doesn't look as
IL 1t Is going to become a reality.
Welsh, according to report, didn't
make a cent out of his victory. He
gambled with his end of the purse.
Richie took a guarantee of $4,000
with an option of so per cent of
the gross receipts, which were $40,-
600 This gave Willie $4,000 for
his end and left $4,000 for Welsh and
the promoters. After everything was
Strengthened out, it is said that Fred
die really owed himself money. So
/ it isn't very probable that smart
fellow like Welsh and a much
shrewder man like Harry Pollok will
run any risk of losing the worlds
title in hurry. Welsh's big
chance to get the money is in the
concert halls and he is sure to play
the vaudeville shows to the limit.
When he fights Richie again he will
demand the big end of the purse for
his share. But he will not fight
Richie for awhile-not for a long
while-is the prevailing opinion
among the sports who are we'll ac-
quainted with Harry Pollok, the
fighters manager.
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| If Gunboat Smith is able to defeat
Georges Carpenter he will be the big
gest man. pugillstically, in the world
He will be bigger than Jack johnson,
and Johnson will have to fight him if
the colored champion desires to retain
any respect at all 1t is said of John
son that he is the most accommo-
dating fellow in the world, especially
when he feels that he has an ace in
the hole. In the case of Smith it is
said that johnson considers him the
easiest fellow in the white hope"
class to whip, and that he would meet