Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-01-30
Federal League Has Hit Maps Harder
Than Any Other Aggregation in
Baseball Business.
PITCHING STAFF CLOSE TO
WHITE sox LAST SEASON
HCedoo Seems to Follow Maps, as Each
Winter for several Past Team
seemd to Be -Notchers.


Chicago, Jan. 30.-Tho Cleveland
Maps have been hit harder by the Fed
erals than any other American league
team. Joe Birmingham will be against
q tough proposition in getting pitch.
ing staff for the coming season, because
he has lost three,of his most valuable
mon in Falkenberg, Banding and Kah-
ler. There is no reason why the Maps
should suffer any more than some Of
the other teams in the American league,
but It 50 happened that the three men
were unsigned and open for q PROPOSE.
tion, and when one jumped the other
two followed
Last year the Maps had pitching
staff almost as strong as the White
Sox. Ii was the boast of the Cleve.
land fans that they had the strongest
lot Of pitchers in the big leagues, but
they will not be able to make any such
boast this year. Birmingham win have
four good men left from last years
staff in Mitchell, steen, Gregg and Cul,
lcp. He maye be able to pick up one
or two worthy youngsters in the spring
roundup, but the young pitchers will
not be nearly as valuable as Falken-
berg, Blanding and Kahler, even II
they proved good enough to keep.
Hoodoo Fololws Maps.
If there Is any hoodoo team in the
American league, it is the Maps For
several years the team has looked
strong enough each winter to be one Of
tho top-notChers Of the race for the
coming season, and just as regularly as
the team has worked itself into a com
manding place in the race some misfor-
tune has occurred to spoil the seasons
chance Of winning. Manager after man.
ager has been tried out IN hopes that
the change would break the hoodoo and
land tho team in first place, but each
now manager has gone the way Of his
rreaccossor without winning. More
money has been spent by Charlie Som.
ers, owners Of the Maps, in the last ten
years for new players than any other
owner in the young major organization,
but the money has been thrown away
each year.
To put winning combination in
Cleveland, somors has bought two minor
league clubs and has a working agree.
ment with another minor league team
that gives him all the choice players
each year,
somers Also Loses In Toledo.
The Toledo club Of the American as
sociation has been a continuous loser
for somers ever since he got control of |
it. The Mudhens never have been con
sistent enough to stick up in the race
long enough to get the fans Of Toledo
really enthusiastic over the game. Ey.
cry time real good player has been I
developed on the Toledo team he has
been shifted at the end OF tho season
TO the Cleveland team, and every time
this has happened a lot of Toledo fans
became disgustcd and quit going to the
games
Down in New Orleans the Pclicans
used 70 be the winning team In the
league, but as soon as somcn got hold
Of Il the team began slipping. In 1912
tho New Orleans team finished third
and last year the pelicans we're at the
bottom Of tho list somors does not
own the Portland team Of the Pacific
coast league, although no has close
working agreement with the club. The
team has becn the leading team Of the
league for some years and finished on
top last year, but thore arc several
fans, who watched, somcrs in baseball,
who already arc predicting the Portland
combination will begin to slip II tho
agreement with tho Maps is continued
another season.
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