Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-02

The Feds are beginning to talk
peace, I see by a dispatch from
| Chicago. Out in the West President
Gilmore, of the Outlaws is quoted
as saying that the Feds are willing
to come to an issue on any fair and
honorable terms" The trouble is,
from what / can hear, Gilmore is not
wanted in the picture at all. The
regulars" it is said, are willing to
bury the hatchet, but they say Gill
more must go. Now. it is Gilmore
who is suing for peace. Maybe he
got a tip and is playing the game
from another angle. Anyway, every
men who have lost so much money in
baseball this year are not going out
next year in the same way with the
prospects of losing twice as much.
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II anything big comes off in base
ball way. Newark is certain to be in
on IT, This is the most logical big
league city in the minor leagues, and
we are sure to have high grade of
baseball some day. Conditions now.
as everybody knows, are in terrible
state. Charley Ebbets is impossible
any longer and no one would give
him a postage stamp for his holdings
here the way the outlook is. The In
ternatlonal League is dead-dead as
the world-and the only thing to do
Is to get in tow with the Federals. A
league, as / have mapped out be-
fore. with Newark, Rochester, Buff
falo, Toronto, Baltimore, Providence,
Pittsburgh and Brooklyn in the cir
cult, would get along all right. 1t
would have to be an organization of
major class, of course, and not be a
provider of material for the National
League and the American League, as
Is the international League now.
O.
The big leagues may not like any
such plan and they might do their
utmost to prevent it. In which event
it might be well to figure on doing 1t
anyway. 1t Is time that cities of the
class of Newark threw off their base
ball yoke and this is the time to do |
It, The Feds want to do business |
and the International League moguls
must do business to save themselves. |
They would be direct fools to let
the big leagues stand in their way.
And they should insist on the con-
solidation The Feds are beaten and
the big moguls may want to punish
them severely, but the minors are
even worse off than the Feds and
the majors should protect them.
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The sports are trying to create
some sort OF fair betting odds on the
worlds series. The Athletics hackers
are offering only even money, which
is unfair, and the Boston hackers
are asking 2 to 1. which is out
rageous. In a way, the series is
about the most even thing I have
ever seen, but because of the fact
that the Mackmen have been so sue
cessful in these big games and are
the worlds champions, 1t is not too
much to ask their hackers to bet |
8 to 5. Those are fair odds; yet 1t
is the toughest thing in the world to
figure out the winner. Philadelphia
has the ball team, maybe, but Bos-
ton has the pitchers. Philadelphia
has been there for some time; Boston
is just coming Public opinion is for
Boston and public sympathy is for
Boston. Yet Philadelphia is a legiti-
mate 6-to-5 favorite.
O.
In his day. Floyd MacFarland was
looked upon as the wisest fellow in
the game. He knew everything, it
was said, and he worked from more
angles than has even Jimmy Moran
In a. six-day race. MAC" was
teamster of the royal order, and he
was a trickster of no mean repute,
but like all others who have forsaken
their profession, the General has lost
his cunning. That wouldn't be so
bad, either. If he would only listen
to reason and not argue against fate
against certain defeat. These few
lines are apropos of Kramer's defeat
of Goullet last Sunday in the French
point race. AS was known to mighty
few, Kramer rode a 80 gear on his
bicycle instead of 96 gear which is