Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-23

surely, must be found TO get together
for baseball, especially minor league
baseball. cannot stand the drain OF
battle much longer.
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The minors. ! know, are crying for
compromise. but they cannot say
their soul is their own. They are
under the yoke of the majors, who.
naturally. are looking after their
own interests first. The minors, in
the meanwhile. are taking their
medicine with wry face. but they
haven't the nerve to declare them
selves openly and demand a settle
ment of the whole affair. The big
fellows have not been hurt SO much,
while the little fellows have been
not effected either today or tomor-
row the minors would do we'll to
have a little conference on their own
hook with the Feds. If President
Edward G. Barrow. of the Interna-
tional League. wasn't so close to
Ban johnson he might have done so
long ago. As things are. though,
Mr.. Barrow is following in the
SWIM However,, the club owners
who lost so much money last sea-
son. and whd are in for more
losses next season. ought to have
something to say. Come on, Feds;
let us talk it over. might be an ef-
fective slogan for the men who con-
troll the International League and
the American Association, the two
organizations that have been hit the
hardest during the present unpleas-
antness.
While number of bail players are
taking money under false pretenses
on the stage these days, no such
stigma can be applied to the great and
only Hughey Jennings. manager of
the Detroit Tigers, and partner OF
Ben Smith. the local boy. in the laugh
provoking skit, THE New Mascot.
Jennings can act-not so much, We
He will improve. too, as he goes along,
and he has a very good teacher in
Smith. who is anxious for Hughey TO
attain as much success as a thespian
as he has as a baseball manager.
Jennings and Smith opened their sea
son at the Greenpoint Theatre, in
Brooklyn, yesterday, and 1.-THE New
Mascot went we'll at both perform
ances. Hugh is a big favorite over
across the bridge and Smith has also
performed there. Jennings was given
a big personal reception, and after
he showed his friends what he could
do, they insisted on him making a
speech. He obliged. He talked about
the recent worlds series and gave the
Braves credit for their great victory.
He paid a glowing tribute to his old
teammate. Wilbert Robinson. and said
that Robbie would make good, he
felt sure. next season. Manager
Crowell. of the Greenpoint Theatre,
was delighted with the act. He said
il was the only baseball skit on the
stage that had laugh in it. In fact.
Mr.. croweIl declared The New Mas
cot" to be the best baseball act on the
boards. He ought to know too, for
most of the baseball theatrical atroc-
tiles are tried out at the Greenpoint
Theatre. Jennings and Smith viii
play at b. F. Keith's Million Dollar
Theatre. at Atlantic City, all next
week. after which they viii go on the
road. playing Pittsburgh, Cincinnati.
Louisville and other Western and
southern cities.
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Two important events have been
by Fred Metz chairman Of
the games committee of the dual
athletic meet of the Prudential and
METROPOLITAN Insurance Companies
Athletic Associations and both of
them promise to produce some very
interesting racing. Take the Five
Hundred Special" for instance, which
Mr.. Metz has put on the program.
In the competition viii be Homer
Baker, the record breaker; Ted Mere
dith, the champion. and that old war
horse and big favorite in Newark.
Melvin w. Sheppard "Old Shep." as
the boys call him. never misses an
opportunity to come here and he gem
orally manages to get more than his
share of the applause Meredith has