The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-18
MACK SHOULD WORRY
ABOUT HIS PLAYERS
Athletics Manager Smilingly
Says None Of His Stars
.Ha. Signed.
TALKS OF FEDERALSI
Thinks Millionaires Were
Misled About Profits in
Baseball Business.
TALKS OF FEDERALs

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l7.-"I
haven't signed McInnes. Collins.
Barry. Baker or any of my stars for
next season declared Connie Mack
in answer TO the report that be bad
anticipated the Federal league and oh
taincd tho signatures OF his players al
the close of last season.
r'I can't make il too strong. he
continued, for, while the story sounds
good on paper, there doesn Z happen to
be- word of truth in il. The only
players | have put under contract for
1914 arc new players who are hardly
known to Philadclphis fans
80 But the men who won the world s
championship for me last October have
not been tendered contracts but, in
asmuch as the Players Fraternity has
been granted. the concessions IL
wanted, I wilispitch right in and get
nv men in line for next season.
81 don't anticipate any trouble, be
cause my men are ball players and not
inalcontents. Nearly every demand the
fraternity asked of the maior leaguers
letie club for the last five years or
more.
What do YOU think of the Federal
leaguef' the pilot OF the world Is
champions was asked.
Out for Business.
81 bsdn 4 given the Federals one
thought, he answered, ''until lately.
Tho signing of Tinker, Brown and
hnabe would indicate that they were
out for business.
''Thcy arc making big flourish
about the salaries they are. going TO
pay. but where they are going to get
OF is another thing.
"Heso is the situation. Sehemers
without money have interested mum
Der or millonairss about baseball. /
the profits, and the grccnhorns have |
bittep--hook. line and sinker. But |
they are in for an awful trimming and |
will soon learn what ii Is to back an |
outlaw team.
"These hackers have been led to he
ljeve that there arc millions in the |
game. Instead of coming money they |
will have 20 paw 100000 n year or
more ont OF their pockets 20 have the
privilege of being called baseball mag |
mates.
"These milliouaires haven't been
told by their oily-tonguod friends that |
there arc major league teams that |
haven I paid r dividend in the last |
ten years. They don Z know that only |
anything moro than expenses.
Not Gold Mines.
rThe best proof that major league
baseball franchises are not gold mines /
IL the fact that clubs are so frequent I
ly cold Why are thev sold? Because J
the owners sreD I making money and 4
want TO put the burden on somebody /
else & shoulders.
d. II. -
owners would sell a franchise were they |
taking in money by the peck One of the
hest baseball towns in Amcricn is Bos-
fon. yet both the Red Sox and the
Braves have changed hands on numer-
Gus occasions of late. Believe me, the
old owners didn quit because they (
were tired Of dcpositing profits at the
bank.
.sI think that Ban Johnson hit II on
the head when he said that the club |
owners themselves are TO blame. They |
give an impression of big profits that |
never exist and arc too eNtravagant |
They treat the PLAYERS better than they |
arc financially competent TO treat them
II is forgotten that If club loses /
money salaries must 60 on Just the same.
Nobody is cut nor is the expensive
son had it right when he blamed the
owners for gross extravaganza.
Dissatisfied League"
I've really ought to have third |
league. Il ought TO be called the Dis
satisfied league, and PLAYERS and man
aSers who are never satisfied ought TO
jump to il at once. II would relieve us
OF lot OF worry during the playing
season. and | am strong for IT,
81 sec Ned Hsnlou is getting credit |
for being one of the real hackers of the
lesgue. Well, know Ned like n book |
and be wouldp Z lend so cents on five. |
dollar gold piece. Haulon owned the |
Baltimore Eastern league frsuchse. and |
vas glad OF an opportunity 70 sell it TO
Jack Dunn
1T seems that Hanlon has another /
baseball ground that has been idle for |
a number of years He can Z rent or !,
sell IL. Wen, Hanlon : interest in the I
Federal league is 20 lease this dump
Of his 20 the outlaw owners
Ned Hanlon's Interests.
s'Four o.s five thousand dollars a
vcar rental looks better 10 him that |
nothing. so that g why he II so devoted |
10 the cause OF The outsws But as !
Where Chamnion