Evening journal., 1915-06-02
'SLOUFED STAR Pines
TO PLAY BASEBALL
MarSanS Is Still Idle Because
of Court Injunc-
ton
WILL NOT DESERT
ST. LOUIS FEDS

ST. LOUIS, June 2.-If your daily
allowance were $42.2O and your office
hours from 10 to IL o'clock in the
morning, no boss and nothing 10 do
but bat a ball around the diamond,
would you be a perturbed soul?
Would you lie awake at night and
stare into inky blackness trying to
see what the future held for you?
Think 1t over again, boys! Ohice
hours from 10 to IL o'clock; no sleep;
daily allowance of S422O; no sleepl
Don't doubt that there is such a
man, for he lives and is no other than
Armando Candido Marsans. now en-
meshed in the legal tangle which
spans the gap between organized ard
Independent baseball. Marsans jump
ed the Cincinnati team last year and
played seven games with the Terriers
before they served an injunction suit
on him. Since then he has been what
Is known as a bench warmer. lie has
polished the bench at the rate of &c.
500 a season, now in his second year.
His duties at this date consist in
reporting at Fed Park while Fielder
Jones is away and working from 10
TO II o'clock, sometimes alone, some-
times with a few grasseaters. He does
this TO keep in shape. He'll have
to do II for 154 days, during which
time he earns the princely salary of
$4,000. But is he happy? Never.
81 no like this business" he said
yesterday at Fed Park. 81 didn't jump
for money. Once that fellow Madison
of Kansas City come TO me in Cincy
and says: 'Marsans ! give you these
seven $1,000 bills to jump I get S4,-
200 then; but | say no, | won't jump.
Hermann" he like me like the
bugs do. too. But Herzog, he keep
after me, always making kick about
my work. One day he say, Marsans,
you laying down ! can't stand that
So quit. l came here and got less
money than Kansas City pay, but be
fair with these people and they treat
me fine. Ball. he's fine fellow. So is
Stfel, too. / hate to take their money
and no play.
"The other day ! go to Ball and say
I'm tired of taking your money. Le
me join Cardinals and come bacl
II judge says so. ! want to play ball
But Ball he say. Pm not kicking abou
your money am ~ SO what am
gonna do? Jess stay here and d,
nothing, | guess. because I can't leav
square fellows like these. like TO e
back now to the Reds and play ball
even after what Herzog said, because
like baseball first. but never will
quit these people. They're too square
no sleep at night Just think an,
think. say TO myself, what If tn
Feds lose and nobody wants me?
worries me when l think / might no
play ball never again. Sometimes
feel seek"
There's a ring Of sincerity in Tia
Cuhan's lament. Truly he's perturb
ed soul, sicker than the artist who's
palsied hands no longer can raise tn
palette and brush. He's first a bal
player. and an artist In his line. Af
ter that he's snatcher Of sordil
salary. But he has played baseball
because he loved the lure OK the dia
mond.
Strange, too, he didn't learn th
game In Cuba. Born in Matanzas, 2
; years ago he came To America wit
many Of his countrymen when tn
SpaEish-American war broke out 4
1898. He moved to New York and
then 10 years old, lived for thre
years in Gotham. Il was there h
learned to play baseball. He carrie
, the game back to the island and faith
cred IL there.
He came back 10 the States at tn
age of 10 and signed with the Ne'
Britain Comm club. He played ther
, three years, then went TO the Red
and stayed there three years unit
, he jumped in his fourth year to IN
! Feds. He was always a 300 hitte
!, fast and a sure fielder. But now he
. nothing-iust sick Cuban at $3.50
! year.