Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12

good after as before his leadership
Then, too. Evers has been in the
game long while and he hasn't got
have Purdue and Sweeney. Oh
course, Evers is a better player than
Sweeney, but when you come to
throw in a pitcher like Purdue for
good measure 1t is difficult to see
! where Murphy is getting any the
worst of 1t. In fact, the deal looks
so good from Chicago Club stand
point that 1t is enough to make
Evers feel sore. Others, too, are
peeved because Murphy has been
treated so well in the matter. Most
of them say that Evers should have
been taken away from him and a
broken bat given him in return. Still
others say that Murphy is all right
and that he did the proper thing in
deposing Evers and appointing O'Day.
The club belongs to him. they declare.
and he has perfect right to run it
as he sees fit. Changing managers
is no new thing, they maintain, and
as long as Murphy is satisfied, what
need the others care. The more mis-
takes the Chicago man makes. 1t Is
pointed out, the better off are the
other clubs, so why all this booing.
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That's the way it goes, and, as
many seem to think, Murphy comes
out on top with all the best of the
bargain. 1t is said, though. that he
was given a very severe lecture by
President Tener. He was told that
the Evers matter would be taken out
of his hands, and, it is said, he raised
no objection. He didn't want Evers,
he said, and didn't care what became
of him. He said he would be will
ing to accept any fair trade for
Johnny, but he would not consider
money offer. In this he showed good
judgment, for it is bad enough In
Chicago the way things are without
having it said that Murphy got rid
of Evers just for the money. When
it came to offering Evers at auction,
as it were, only two clubs In the
whole National League wanted the
player. Boston really did, and Brook
Ign said it did. Boston got the player,
and Brooklyn says it lost the player
because Charley Ebbets, srsy- owner
of the Brooklyn club, was in the
chair when negotiations were going
on. After the, deal had been made
Brooklyn seemed to be sorry she lost
Evers. What Ebbets had to offer
for Johnny is not known, but Muir
ply would probably have asked for
Nap Rucker, and the Brooklyn own
ers might as we'll move out of town
if they allowed their star pitcher to
get away.
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But whatever tn regulars" say,
the outlaws" are getting all the
best of the discussion. The fact that
Murphy turned down Evers, even
though he had flve-year contract,
is giving the other players with con-
tracts much to think about. What
good is a contract, the players are
likely to figure out, If the magnates
can cast 1t aside whenever they want
to. Not even the fact that Evers
has been guaranteed his five-year
contract by the National League has
given the ball players confidence.
They say that If it wasn't for the
Federal League being in the field
that Evers could go hunt for his
rights. Murphy would have sacked
Johnny. they declare, and he would
now be looking forty ways for Job
but for the Outlaw" movement. Even
the big baseball men realize the
strength of this argument, yet most
of them are trying to square Muir
ply by saying he has half a million
dollars interested in the Chicago club.
and that he must necessarily be act
Ing for its good.
O.
Among some of the National League
magnates, many of whom are sore
through and through, the cry is for
Murphys scalp. Charley, it is ad-
mitted, has pulled more bones than
the biggest Barry" that ever PLAYED
baseball and he has always been
able to get away with it. But there
always was a time, they say. and
this is the fatal hour Murphy has
failed to touch second" and they
are going to call him out. Charley
himself just laughs at the "boobs,"
al he calls them, and says he will go
back to Chicago and make every-
body take notice by winning the
pennant with Hank O'Day as man
ager Of the Cubs
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The opinion is, however, that Muir
ply will have to be subdued, but how
to subdue him is the question. 1t is
declared that he owns SO per cent. of
the stock of the club and that the
league could not afford to Dust him
against his will. II the American
League business is conducted on
different basis. Ban Johnson, the mo-
ment anybody pulls Barry" is al
ways on the job, and the offender is
told to get out or he will be thrown
out The trouble is generally settled
satisfactorily to all concerned and the
change is made as IL 1t was the nat
ural outcome of a business deal Gov
ernor Tener is big man and he seems
able to handle the affairs Of his
league. He took hold of the Evers
matter himself and it is likely to turn
out all right. 1t was the very best