New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-23
So Saws Charley Ebbets, in
Telling Why the Outlaws
Should Collapse.
GIVES FOUR REASONS
TO SUPPORT VIEWS
Gossett Signs with the Yankees,
While Eddie Grant Sticks
10 the Giants.

Ear.CS TO- l-hOtt'' '''Ni'''.'
Brcokl,r S.porbas. returned home YES
torday. after a i.,e-mi,c u1p. still conn
dent .r ,rs belief that Joe tinker the
~ecal-.trart sno.tstop. would be seen in
Brooklyn uniform next summer
MI Elbcts spent the greater part OF tn'
dav resting. and expects 20 have little t'
occapv his time until tomorrow when
Ntbe.t Robinson Will come ND from bal
tirorc % talk over plans for the sprihS
tra.u.nc trip
According to tho BROOKLYN president
Tinker Jid not scek all interview but one
wa, Suggested Dog mutual friend While
rha-.s ra. BE- kansas city. he los'
1tr. lime ia COINS 90 CHICAGO and hunt
ing -r Tho c~stvhue manager OF the Reds'
whose actions in the last month nave
been watched with greater interest than
} me career ~ Halevs comet a couple OF
years aso NJ. Ebbets said
tinker has really signed with the REQ
erals offered him exactly the salary
had offered him before he hoped. and o.
( course. he would set the $1,000 bonus we
tnrorised him when We bought him from
: Cincinnati Our Interview was pleasant
hut Tinker did not agree to jump and We
parted eood friends.
II repeat that 7 believe Tinker VIII nc
with Brooklyn. because 7 think the feo-
.~sr League cannot last, and therefore
there will he no Federal club with "hich
Tinker can play. The Federal League
looks doomed 10 me FOR four principal res-
sons. although there are many others me
four are -.
"Tne circuit includes Toronto BaIu-
more indianapolis and Kansas CITY foui
minor league cities Second. wnile II
pretends 10 r a major league the Fed
erals cannot charge more than minor
league prices n they are to compete IN
those four cities with the international
League and American Association clubs
Third the Federal League has nausnt
but minor league plants and IN TINS "a!
unless your playing superiority - over
whelning YOU cannot expect patronage al
minor league park IN competition with
the half million or million dollar parks IN
the majors And II would be physical
,rono.-ibil.tv for the Federal League
cities 10 build major plants, no matter
how much money they had, before next
season. Fourth. am confident the capi-
,slists behind the Federal League will get
cold feet when they begin 20 understand
the enormou. sums they must advance on
an extremely doubtful proposition.
The president Of the superbas said that
he had signed sixteen players despite
the fact that the Federal League mana
gers had approached nearly every man
on the Brooklyn list He said that ne
thought the players Of this day and gen
GRAFTON we're TOO wise TO be lured away
by stories Of buried gold and treasure
trove Al the end 81 ralnbows.
M Fbbets said q vas not AZ all i'm
rrobahIe that the International League
might transfer franchise 70 Brooklyn
In order % provide continuous baseball
for Brooklyn fans and added
"T should approve 81 the move as a
war measure, but hardly think the time
Is ripe FOR such an innovation as a per
manent thing. There are innumerablt
angles 10 the proposition that only
baseball man would know.
IL the Federals do not blow up, as
believe they will. we shall take every
measure TO protect ourselves and will no
let pride stand in our way.
According TO Mr.. Ebbets Robinson plan!
70 have Nap. Rucker. Ed. Reuibach. Pa
Ragon. Tex Erwin and Otto Miller repor
al Hot Springs on February 10.
Four DAYS later Robinson will oper
camp al Augusta for the recruit pitchers
and on March the entire team will re
port at Augusta. The all important ques
ton If uniforms will be settled to-mor
row