Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-20

been justly indignant over the pro
posed transfer of the Newark base.
ball team to Brooklyn. It wasn't g
very chubby thing for Charley Ebbets
sr., to suggest, and don't let any.
body tell you that he didn't suggest
it, either. That was one of Mr.. Eb.
bets's pet schemes, but 1t never hat
a chance to go through. In the frs
| place, the citizens of Newark
wouldn't stand for it, and in the sec.
ond place it wasn't practical at all
and never could be brought about. II
wasn't a joke by any means, fol
Edward G. Barrow, president of the
league, was in on the scheme. Al
first he was in favor of it, but later
when he realized what a real chear
proposition it was. he ducked away
from 1t as if it was a serpent. No
| there won't be any change In the In
ternational League circuit this year
| Newark will go on in its own way,
and we will try and forget the brain
less suggestion to transfer the Tigers
to Brooklyn.
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Ebbets senior and Brooklyn, of
course, would be delighted to have
such dandy team as the champion
Tigers playing over in the famous
holiday baseball park. for it has been
long while since the good people of
Brooklyn have heard the pleasing
sound of champions. We are willing
to allow our team to go down South
and train with the hopeless wonders
of the National League, but we are
not willing to give our winning ball
team to the city that has been SO
content with losers for so many
years. We will not go to Brooklyn,
and there was never much of a
chance that we would. The agitation
was never very serious in a. general
way, and I didn't believe we had so
many "Bonehead Barrys" on the In
ternationaI League until this trans
fer proposition was sprung.
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1t is q good thing for the peace of
mind of President Barrow and the
senior Ebbets that l wasn't at my
desk during the heat of the discus
sion. I promise these men that 1
would have said many harsh things.
and some things that were more than
harsh, about them. 1t is not SO bad
that the big leagues have the Inter
national League under absolute con-
troll, but 1t is out of the question for
the big leaguers, no matter what
their predicament, to come into the
International League and break up
it's circuit. The move was a big
league matter, and Mr.. Ebbets was
the father of the proposition, but
what battles me is how the big mo-
guls got to Ed Barrow and brought
him in line so easily. AS to Ebbets,
he was playing for big game-playing
Newark to benefit Brooklyn. But
Barrow! Well, I'm not going to say
anyt hing about Barrow until I see
that gentleman personally.
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Newark citizens, rest assured,
you'll not get the worst of it in any
thing as long as l am able to swing
a sledge. The pen has much weight,
especially where 1t is backed up by
an honest purpose. The battles of
the people are the battles Of the
Evening Star, and when there are
any such "monkeyshines" going on
as the transfer, for instance, of
good ball team like the Newarks to
a bad ball town like Brooklyn, we
will call out all the warriors at our
command and beat the rascals into
submission. Take my word for 1t,
though, there was more talk than
anything else in the proposition. Pre-
vious to my illness I spent much
time at the baseball meetings in New
York, and while 1 had observed that
the regulars were suffering from
bad case of cold feet at the great
showing of the outlaws there was
always sufficient confidence among
the big men of the game to assure
me that nothing radical was in the
air.
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Billy Gibson, manager Of the Car
den A. c., which promotes boxing
bouts in Madison Square Garden, will
soon resign his position, it is said,
and also quit the promoting game
for good. If this is so, boxing will
lose one of it's best friends. Gibson
has proved himself a clever fellow at
managing fights and fighters, but
with all his cleverness he could not
make the Garden paying venture.
There has been much money taken in
at the bouts there, but after the ex-
pensive fighters received their share
very little was left to pay the other
debts, it is said. Gibson gave New
Workers the best there was in the
game, and he was a very popular fell
low with everybody. Besides man.
aging pugilistic affairs at the Gar
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