Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28
NEW YORK FANS
D|SAPPO|NT TED
IN FED LEAGUE
Gothamites Expected Gilmore to
Wreck PhiIIes and Cubs and
Give McGraw Another Flag.
Bv Damon Runyon.

YFW YORK. Jan. 2S.--It appears
~ that those Federal Leaguers
have been holding out lot Of
false promises to the baseball fans
of this un- Federalized island. They
are not going TO be the help to the
New York Giants that everybody
hereabout anticipated. In fact. If they
are going to persist in their dlscrin-
inatory methods OF keeping off GER
tain Of our noble athletes, they VIII
soon be regarded as a hindrance.
A committee was being formed by
local fans 20 steam down the bay to
meet the Mauritania along about
March 6, and formally present John
j. McGraw with the National League
remnant for the season OF 1914 per
courtesy OF James Gilmore, ESQ., ana
the Federal League. These plans VIII
now have to be revised, and John
McGraw may have to night for the
pennant as usual.
When the Feds first broke out they
announced that they had signed
Mowrey, Of the Pirates, and divers
and sundry members of the Cubs, 10
saw nothing of Otto Knabe and young
Messrs. Brennan and Killifer or the
pills all OF which was good news 10
the Giant fans. The Giants, Cubs.
Pirates and Phils are regarded as the
pennant possibilities next season, ana
with the men named In the clutches
Of the Federals and MCGraWs clun
intact, the prophets felt called upon
10 open up a line OF prophecy litt'e
ahead Of time.
n GORGE STALLlNGS found him
" self coming IN for bit OF pub
liclty as the only man with chance
10 head off the demon Polo Ground
ers, all OF which was doubtless quite
surprising to George Brooklyn was
out OF the race. because Brooklyn had
lost Tinker True, Brooklyn never
had Tinker for more than a few min
utes. but that was long enough tor
Your Uncle Wilbert Robinson to com
mence thinking about a worlds Sc
rles in Flatbush. Now Tinker was
gone.
Cincinnati was never conceded a
chance. because II Is Cincinnati, ana
ss for the st. Louis Cardinals wei,
had they not lost Cozy DolanR Ihey
had not. Therefore, the Giants would
win in a chief Meyers walk, which
is very slow and leisurely move
ment OF the legs.
Now the dream has been dispelled
Mowrey Is back with the Pirates ana
il Mowrey can win a pennant for the
Pirates the Giants assuredly deserve
10 lose Brennan and klllifer nave
been replevined by the Phils, ana the
Cubs will be just the same, ana Jusi
as noisy as ever. Otto Knabe viii
be the only man Of any Importance
missing from the Phil lineup, and that
statement goes even II the Feds re-
cover Brennan and killifer in the
courts. so II looks like another long,
hard summer for the Giants.
NIsGRAW will start the season OF
wi 1914 with his old infield, ana
with added strength In the outheld'
He viii have the same battery
strength. at least, with perhaps some
additions 10 his pitching staff, and
all these men. with few exceptions,
are men in their baseball prime The
slim backward will undoubtedly come
with some in the very near future, nut
meantime the Giant leader should
have a better club than at any time
during the past three years.
II is estimated that Mr. McGraw
and Mr. Callahan. his accomphce IN
the trip around the world, are re
sponsible for the telegraph compa-
mics losing several thousands OF dol
lars in tolls this season by taking all
those noble athletes with them. III
Larry DOYLE and Hans Lohert and
Micke Doolan and such We're IN this
country the correspondents could
have sent out n lot more Items about
being offered Jobs with the Federal
League.
THE laugh that has gone up over
the squawll emitted by Ban
johnson Is perhaps the loudest laugh
of the year 1914 20 date, January !,
inclusive. and many fans are hop
ing the Feds will now sign Ty Cobb,
or Iris Speaker or some regular ball
PLAYER, lust to hear Ban holler again,
and get another laugh
Ban Is getting old and fattishlike
and no longer yearns for the fray.
otherwise he would probably he out
hacking at all the exposed parts of
the Federal League instead or lust
refusing to speak TO ball players. Ban
used 10 be a fighter, but now he sits
and pounds his desk with his fist and
makes conversation.
g O far the Feds have really in
y nlcted no very damaging blow
on organized baseball in the matter
Of securing players. with the pos
shle exception OF Tinker and Nnahe,
and the Philadelphia MANAGEMENT
claims IL told knahe to 80 ahead and
dicker with the Feds
The outlaws will have 90 produce
that list OF FIVE big leaguers 90 a
club before the fans viii take them
very seriously and 10 depends some
what on the Ave big lC8guerS to a
club. at that II the Feds can really
get that many bascballers away from
the National and American Leagues.
however. ID VIII be quite WALTON
And the noise from Is Is Johnson
a.. IN d.