Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-22

earlier dreams of avarice which may
have entered into his calculations. We
have already commented upon some OF
these. but the height was reached when
Speaker was signed for two years at
$4,000, and 1t has been said that there
was a bonus in addition to this. Com
PARSONS are. of course. inevitable. Al
ready there have been comments con-
trasting the price paid for work in an
athletic line with work in an education
al line, and these promise to multiply.
One should understand, however, and
make the proper discount in any COM
parsons of this kind, for it Is doubt
full if these exaggerated salaries con-
tinue. In fact. picture the situation If
the contest for players in professional
league ranks goes on forcing up prices
TO pay him not only s17.50O for a year,
but has to make a contract covering a
longer period of time than that! What
also will be it's effect upon other play
make as much as they can, but such
policy in any business Is likely in the
long run to kill the goose that lays
the golden egg"
W: W. ,Naughton. that veteran knight
OF the sporting pen. has written his last
line and passed beyond the call of time
1t seems only yesterday that he was a
new man on the staff of San Francisco
5ournal-straight from the shores of New
Zealand. He was always especially keen
about boxing, but that didn't mean that
he was not a fine critic Of every branch
as well, from Rugby up. It's over twenty
five years since he began painting his
word pictures to all readers of sport on
the coast and he had become the dean
OF the coast writer's. There are thou
sands ready to join silent toast to the
colonel.
Gov. Tener made an excellent speech at
the dinner given the worlds base ball
tourists as welcome home to these
shores. He stated that he believed this
crusade would have a far more wide
reaching effect in implanting the prin-
ciples of our national game in foreign
lands than had that earlier visit some
twenty-five years ago with a similar pur-
pose. He complimented most highly the
sporty spirit displayed by managers and
players and laid particular stress upon
the work in this respect of Comiskey,
McGraw and Callahan. McGraw himself
made an excellent and fitting address,
short and very much to the point. while
Callahan was generous enough to give all
the credit OF successful management to
Comiskey and McGraw. Comiskey him
self was too Ill to speak, but was at
the table. and must have been much
touched by the enthusiasm Of the audi
| ence at the f1attering remarks made
about him. The souvenir of the dinner
was a mannikin. some three feet or
more in height. dressed in a complete
base ball uniform. and many OF the
guests when departing with these dolls
looked to be carrying very large boxes
of Sunday flowers.
| There is story comes from the other
side that the old question of the merits
in golf of the solid gutta percha ball as
| against the present rubber-cored ball is
to be tested out by four professionals OF
Great Britain. no less personages thar
]. H. Taylor, Harry Vardon, james Braid
z, and George Duncan. Some of those who
! saw Alex Herd In the year when the open
! was played at Hoylake cover that course
| 1915 yards. on a windy day in seventy.
| one strokes. wish that he were included
| in the number. especially in view Of the
| fact that Alex played in the exhibition
| matches at Cannes and Nice, OF the
| Riviera. and defeated Duncan .-s'
| II it is true that the contest lie to be q
best-ball match in the morning, all play.
| ing with guilty" balls. and match il
| the afternoon in which two of the, pro.
| will use rubber-cored balls and the Other
| two gutta percha, it is putting it mildly
to say that such test would surely dem.
onstrate nothing except by inference al
to the value of the balls. In the first place
no man who has been playing for the last
| few years with rubber-cored bal
| would be willing to go into match with
g ~ thrr he had not had very cor-