Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-13

JEROME D. TRAVERS BIZ
good. He is truly wonderful at match
play but at medal play he hasalways
had much trouble, so really his hard
work will come in the qualifying
round. Once down to match play,
Travers asks odds of no man, but
his row to hoe will be much harder
in Europe than it has been in this
country With Travers on the trip
is his old pal, Fred Herreshoff, who
will also do some golfing abroad.
Travers will represent the Upper
Montclair Golf Club during his tour.
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Charley Murphy is still president of
the Chicago Cubs. The sale of the
club has not been made, and until the
stock changes hands. Murphy will
remain at the helm. From all ac-
| counts he is defiant and happy. He
says he will sell, but he wants to see
| the color of the purchasers money.
notwithstanding that Murphy has
been hammered and raped from
daylight to dawn, he never seems to
mind 1t in the least He fights in his
own way, and he looks upon the at
tacks of others as a joke. He kids
lot. and some of the prospective
buyers of the Cubs do not like Muir
phys sarcastic filings at all. Still
Charley says give me the money and
take the old club" but so far no one
has come through with the coin.
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Governor Tener, ii was expected,
would be able to negotiate the deal
! for the Cubs in a jiffy. The buy would
seem to be a good one, but there must
be something in the wind to stall the
sale, Murphy's end is said to have
been valued at something like $500, 1000.
That should not be large sum to
raise in Chicago. where millionaires
and sports abound. At the dinner to
the worlds tourists it was said by
men who were supposed to know
what they were talking about that
the Chicago club would be bought by
q "favorite SON. and a popular fell
low in a>day or two. 1t hasn't come
to pass. Murphy was 'panned" at the
dinner. and it was said that the
Never Again Club" would be dis
banded when he was driven out OF
baseball. But all the beautiful pic
lures painted at the banquet have
come to naught and it would be a
funny thing If Murphy retained con-
troll of the Cubs despite all the blow
and buster. He is game enough to
do anything.
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Baseball will be a continuous prop
osition in Newark the coming season
and the local fans may go up to
Bloomfield and see a game once In a
while If they like. Through the mag
nanimity of the owners of the New
ark Club the Long Branch team OF
the New York and New Jersey
League will play it's games at Widen
mayors Park when the Tigers are on
the road. Bloomfield will also be rep
resented in the same league, so there
will be intense rivalry.
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The sudden liberality of the organ
ization baseball men is amazing.
History has never seen the like. Ball
players are given blank contracts and
told to write In their own price, and
owners of ball parks are showing an
unusual willingness TO lease their
properties to their fellowmen in the
same line of endeavor 1t is a beau
tful spirit and it is to be hoped it
continues.
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| Charles II. Ebbets jr.. in announc-
| ing the fact that Bloomfield would
be allowed to put an organization
team in the field and that the Long
Branch Club would play on the local
grounds when the Tigers We're away,
freely confessed there wasn't any
| sentiment in the arrangements and
that the move was made for strictly
business reasons. And why not?
Baseball is a business and so are all
big sporting enterprises. and the men
| who refuse to take advantage of the
opportunities afforded would be con-
sidered poor business men indeed.
The trouble has been in the past
that the magnates have been too
strict with their grounds. They