New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
Indications Are Manhattan
Will Not Be Invaded
This Season.
NEWARK OWNERS
VISIT HARRISON
Jersey City Fans Downcast, for
Nobody Seems TO Want Their
Orphan Ball Team,
By HAYWOOD BRoUN.

Jim Gilmore quit town YESTERDAY
without leaving q baseball club behind
him. so 10 ~ safe 10 assume that the
Feds will not be represented IN Man
haitian or The Bronx this season. A.
though definite announcement rs sun
lacking. there rs no longer any doNoN
that Pa. Powers and Harry smear
have decided on Newark as the scene
Of their activities. They are expected
20 make their plans public to-day. :.
Sooner or later, Of course, me feos
V.ll come 10 New York, and when tney
come IL is more than probable that inc
1ndisranolis .eam will be shifted. Bill
ph,iiius's club is far too COCA 70 DE
wasted ir the tiny Hoos.er town.
Before taking a train foy Pihehurst
M Gilmore reiterated E:s statement
that tho Indianapolis team would not
DO shifted here now. II IS true that
NJ Glmorc's denials have not nlw.Js
bee0 supported IN the light o. suose-
,picrt events, but other evidence Is
available as well as the woro OF the
Fcdoral League leader, and u seems as
though the folk who 1--we in Manhattan
must cross river, be it North or EAST
90 sec the Feds.
Men m organized baseball were won'
some
would not start tho season. As mat
tor az fact Mr.. Gilmore and his asso-
GATES will not only start, but they plan
% Get into action before either or
heir rivals. The president Of the Feds
ssid Yesterday that the schedule or ms
league would probably call 1or an
opening on April 10 or II.
Gilmore and the new owners OF the
Newark club inspected Harrison, y. -
Yesterday. and paid particular atten-
lion 10 Harrison oval, which seems 10
be in favor as o site.
The fans % Jersey City arc down
cast Nobody wants their team or AZ
least nobody wants II enough TO pay
s. substantial purchase price. Jesse
Yurkett. Of Worcester. Mass, conferred
with Edward G. Barrow yesterday, ana
sand that Worcester would be wiling
70 cake i'm the orphan ball club. Then
Mr. Barrow informed HIM that the
nrico would be $4,000. and BurEett
vent away on a fast train.
1.-THE more one reads YOUR column !
the more he is inclined TO believe you
missed YOUR vocation IN lie, reads
letter which We received yesterday from
j. a. Couklyn, who lives IN The Bronx.
you should have been truck driver
or some other such person continues
Mr. Conklyn, "but surely not sport
ing writer. Your stuff is simply awful
and awfuly simple as well. You GER
family get away with murder"
Inst for that we hope the Jersey
civ team is sent 20 The Bronx
Nr. Corkyn. we judge from the tone
of the letter, brings against us
charge OF general all-around worthless
ness. This we must deny, but "hen n
roIuts out specifically that we referred
20 Al Ilueuke, q recruit pitcher OF the
Giants. as first baeeman, we can only
plead guilty and throw ourselves on
The mercy Of the court.
Did YOU ever hear OF Holke| says
the ironical Mr. Conkyn, and his shaft
goes home for il was Holke We had IN
mind when We wrote Of Huenke. Our
humiliation is complete
The worst OF II is, we feel sure thai
We will do II again. John NcGrsw has
nfty-thrce players right now Come to
think Of II. we'd better qualify that
about ffty-thrce players; that gives Us
more lccway. Some Of these men are
Iifchcrs. some catchors. others inteld
crs or ou'helders Matty, Merkle and
few of inst crowd we can classify, but
"a for a lot Of the others, we don't
know what they are. and We don't pc
leyc McGraw does either
A booklet en- "Hcw to Tell the Re
cru.ts from the Ball Players would
help US lot.
Billy Sullivan, who has played on.
his string with the White SoN. caught
an 300 games during his sixteen years
IN the major leagues. Some Of these
were not full games. but IL would be
conservative 20 estimate that in each
game Sullivan handled an average OF
l20 pitched balls.
One hundred and ffty-siX thousand
times Billy Sullivan bent ms knee and
gave the signal and 10000 times he
set himself 10 receive the ball. lie
takes his marks o! service with him
wherever he goes. for OF all his ten
fingers not ono but has lie own pc
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