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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
TEAM SHAPES Up
LIKE CHAMPIONS
Speed, Brains, Fire and Youth
Are Most Valuable
Assets.
CLUB IS WELL BALANCED

L would not take Judge Landis
long to give his decision II he were
asked TO make up his mind on one
certain point regarding the baby
major and the organized majors, viz,
whether or not the Fed champions
shape up 10 the major league stand
ard as champions come.
The Pops have speed. youth, nerve,
fire and, best Of all, are a perfectly
behaved baseball team, in to win
games at all times. but full OF the
right sort Of fighting spirit The in
field is well-balanced combination.
Just now Germany sehaefer, come
dian and utility man. Is being used
at first base. On the defense schaefer
may not be what he used to be. but
his hitting is still good.
At second. Frank LaPorte is fully
up to the major league standard on
the defense. and he can hit harder
than ever. It would seem. LaPorte
spent the winter on his farm and re-
ported in great condition. As cap
tain Of the Peps he sets swift pace.
He is a steady. reliable fielder and a
wonderful pivot man on a double
play.
AT shortstop we have Jimmy Es-
mond. James is long on gray matter
and his experience and skill makes
him valuable cog in the infield. he
finished just outside the select 300
IfsiE in l.
never played better ball than he did
for Bill Phillips.
MeKechnIe at third is bound to be :
popular favorite. He is OF the fight
ling sort-full of the ginger that goes
to make the most valuable ingredient
/ of the punch"
Mac scored 107 runs last year, rank
| ing second to Eddie Collins as a rum
getting infelder in the major leagues.
The outfeld, which on most teams l.
| depended on to do most of the punch
ing when runs are needed, Is far above
/ the ordinary, but it Is not entirely
the cause of the Pops success.
Behind the plate there is Bill Bari
den, a skillful veteran, and Emil
HUM, who is a born slugger ana q
youngster who can I'll In at first base.
The pitching staff Is well balanced,
and Manager Phillips's greatest task
during the early part of the race viii
be in picking the four pitchers to
work regularly.
Falkenberg. Kaiserling, Muliin,
INoseley and Reulbach are all in shape
to start, and Charley WhitehensA
young southpaw, who was with he
team last year, showed his class last
year.
Besides the above, there is good ma
lterial in Trautman, Billiard and
Moran. And then there is Chick
Brandon, one of the best emergency
ifiingers in the game.
The Peps look as good as any team
lin the league, and the team that beats
lout the Pops will win the pennant.
Manager Phillips fears only one con-
ttender and that Is st. Louis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
How Those Ten Runs Came.

One would wonder how champion
ship team could allow its opponent to
gather ten runs in one round. That
is what happened yesterday, but 1t
was all because Manager Phillips
wanted to allow one of his cub pitch
ers to know what 1t was to be In
there on the mound with base hits
ringing in ell directions. Charles
Whitehouse was the boy started and
who found the going far from smooth.
Whitehouse, who halls from Indian
apolis, is only nineteen years of age
He was on the Indianapolis CLUBS
bench during the most part of the
1914 season. He has learned plenty
and yesterday he picked up some
more pointers. However, it Is doubt
full even if Rube Marquard, who
pitched a no-hit, no-run game yester-
day. could have stood off those Brook
lyn batters. They just simply were in
q. batting mood and while they ham
rnered Whitehouse they also got after
Billiard and Brandon, who followed
the youngster.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
PEP OUTFIELDERS
RANK WITH BEST
ROush, Campbell and Scheer
Are 800 Hitters and Speedy
Baserunners.
STARS ON THE DEFENSIVE

An outfeld second to none in the
country Is the wonderful machine
which Manager Bill Phillips brings
TO Newark IN Roush. Campbell and
seheer. Every member Of the trio Is
a 800 stieker. speedy on the bases and
a finished fielder.
Edd Roush is ball player who
should be sharing the Iimenght with
the best gardeners in the game to-
day. He IS only twenty-five years
old, but his daring base running has
Won more than one game for the
champions. Roush hit for a percent
age Of 1913 last year and topped the
outdelders Of the Pops at bat.
Last year the speedy centre fielder
was kept on the bench and used prin-
cipally for pinch hitting purposes IN
til late in the season. He made good
almost invariably IN that trying posi-
tion. finally winning his spurs as a
regular. It is this fact and only this
fact that kept Edd from making a
much better base running record. He
stole fifteen bases ii seventy-four
games. but this year. with the breaks
in the luck, he should nab three times
that amount.
He is most valuable because of his
daring and his speed, which makes il
possible for him to get away with
Ty Cobb stuff on the bases. Edd has
a perfect arm, and is without a flaw
as a fielder His speciality Is coming
in on over-thrnws from the catcher,
grabbing the ball and mailing unwary
base runners who try to move along
to third base or over-run the bag
- % HEanEad
YIN Campbelrs name has been be-
fore the big league public for sew
eraI seasons.
Campbell is a Mercury on the bases
when in condition. He makes an ideal
lead-off man. While he is not as
reliable against lefthanders as against
righthanders, he is far from being a
wealkling against southpaws, as some
lefthanded batters are. His speed en-
ables him to chop a southpaw's curve
ball to the left portion of the inf1eld
and beat the throw to first base on
some plays on which other batters
might be doubled up. This is a broad
statement, but after watching Camp
bell for a time the fans will realize
its truth.
The other member of the trio, Allen
Scheer, stole fifty bases and banged
the ball for a mark OF BOB. Like his
mates, Scheer is a lefthander. In
stead Of choking his bat with men on
bases he loosens up and takes a more
hefty swing for two or three bases.
His work in the opening day gams
in Baltimore was a sample when he
pasted out = double 10 left and an
other to right, and then singled and
walked.
Vim Campbell, of course is the mos
experienced, but within a year, IL the
combination is not broken up, tht
Fother two fellows will come through
and the Newark outheld trio viii bs
| recognized at its true value.
The fact that Scheer and Rousl
were kept on the bench all last sea
/ son was due only to the great gam'
| that Bennie Kauff played for tn
| champions.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

point of all is the fact that We have
not done anything to merit it. The
team has not even played here, while
we had won the world 81 series flag
in Chicago at those celebrations.
Germany Schaefer said he had seen
more men at baseball banquets on
only two occasions when travelling
with the worlds tourists around the
globe. One was in New York and
the other in Chicago.
Germany was ready to stage a,
three-round go with Bob Fitzsim-
mons, but later he decided that Bob
might want to claim the champion
comedian title of baseball if he won
the fight, and Germany decided not
to risk the crown. Schaefer was in
troduced on the stage to "Strawber-
ries," who gripped Germany's mitt
and told him he would root for the
team all year. In his speech Schaefer
said that the boys were ''cool and ex-
cited yesterday afternoon, but that
would not happen at home.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
SOME POINTS NEWARK FANS
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEPS

Charley Whitehouse is a southpaw
pitcher who was with the Indianapolis
team last year. Gilbert Whitehouse
halls from the New England League
and was signed during the winter.
The boys are not related.
Allen Scheer Is Just another sensa-
tional youngster that Clark Grifiith
could not see. Add him to the list
that includes Joe Connolly, of the
Braves. and Clarence Walker, of the
Browns-and Griff is looking for good
outfielders!
Schaefer says the finest play he ever
saw was a double-play in which
neither inf1elder, outfielder, pitcher
or catcher handled the ball. Here 1t
is-hgure 1t out for yourself: Man on
first and second. Batter hits infield
fly. Ball strikes runner going from
second to third. Batter is out because
of infield fly rule, and base runner
was hit by batted ball. That's the
way Germany says 1t, but technically
the runner who was hit could not be
called out, because two men cannot
be. retired on an infield fly, according
to the rules.
Federal League ball players have
discovered something new In the line
of material for baseball bats. The
new sticks are made of, Cuban wood
and cost 81 apiece. Just who import
ed these biff-sticks into the league is
not known, but several of them are
In use. They are of unusual value, 1t
Is said. In driving the ball hard, al
though they are OF the regulation
and weight
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
BILL PHILLIPS HATES TO
J YANK TWIRLERS, But he
HAD TO BREAK HIS RULE
Brooklyn Club WallopS Ball Hard and
Three Pep Pitchers Are Called on
in Vain.
TEN RUNS MADE IN FIFTH ROUND

Manager "Whoa-Bilr Phillips, of
the Newark Pops, had to do some
thing yesterday at Brooklyn that he
probably won't do many times dur
ing the season. 1t is one of Man.
ager Phillips's pet ideas to leave
pitcher on the mound no matter what
Is going on, but yesterday was a diff
ferent occasion. Lee Magee's Brook
Iyn Tip Tops were in fine fettle. They
spoiled what had all the appearances
of a hot battle, sensational stops and
clever pitching and the like. Oh yes,
the Newark Pops slipped a cog or
something and allowed Brooklyn on
It's own ball yard to pile up seventeen
runs. while the best our little ball
club could get was six. Just think,
during last season the Brooklyn club
only won two games from the New
ark team, which represented Indian
apolis.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

The Peps have the youngest ball
club In the league.
The tallest man on the team Is Cy
Falkenberg. Cy is six feet six incnes
in height.
Bill Phillips has won eight PEN
nants in eleven years. NOW 10 make
it nine in twelve!
Germany Schaefer never told a lie
in his life; If you don't believe 1t call
him over and ask him.
Edd Roush, the sensational out
fielder of the Peps. is one OF the
youngest men in major league base
ball. He was born May 8, 1893.
Five of the Pops have been through
worlds series-Ruelbach was with the
Cubs; Schaefer and Mullin with Do
troit; Brandon and McKetchpie with
Pittsburgh.
Germany Schaefer has a reputation
wherever baseball is played or talked
of all over the world. He made the
trip with the world tourists two years
ago-that's the reason.
Cy Falkenberg and Frank LaPorte
are poultry fanciers. Any time In q
tight place when you see the two hold
ing their heads close together that's
what they are talking about.
Edd Roush wrote to Joe Tinker a
year ago asking for a job. Tinker
never answered his letter. Today
Tinker says Roush Is the best young
ball player in the league. Joe is game
anyhow. .-...-....
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Am Not Worrying About
That Verdict-Gilmore

I'VE are not worrying about
Judge Landis's decision, said
President James A. Gilmore on
his arrival here yesterday. "of
course, we had hoped that
things would be settled before
the teams went South, but now
we are playing baseball, and the
time is here for US to enjoy our
selves. We had a fine reception
where the Fed teams opened last
week, especially in Chicago,
where the weather was bad up
to 2 o'clock. I look for a most
prosperous season."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Two Great Catches.

If Brooklyn had not collected that
big cluster of counts, the fans might
have seen some exciting baseball.
There were two catches in the early
innings that were decidedly big
league. The greatest catch was made
by Kauff in centre field. He ran far
out to the fence and plucked Camp
BELLS efforts off the pickets. 1t was
one of the greatest catches of the sea-
son. Evans, in left field, also con-
trlputed his share to the work border
ing on the sensational. After partly
misJudging fly he turned around and
picked the ball off the grass blades on
Campbell.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
whitehouse Lacked Control.

Just before the game Manager
Phillips said that Whitehouse had all
the ear marks of conner. He handles
himself well, but yesterday he lacked
the control, and Manager Phillips was
forced to pull him. This was the first
time this season that the Peps' man
ager has been forced to lower the
derrick on a twirler. At that, White
house was not so bad. He went along
good for three innings. In the fourth
BROOKLYN garnered two runs and then
followed the eventful fifth, when ten
Tip Top players found their way over
the home plate. 1t was an awful sight
for the Newark fans, who were out in
numbers, and when McKetchnie
threw out Meyers, sigh of relief
went up.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16

least that is the way one fan put 1t
at the ball park in Brooklyn. Billiard
was real kind. When he did not give
a base on balls, he allowed a hit.
But, as stated before, there seemed to
be no way of stopping the fusilade of
bingles, and Manager Phillips just al
lowed Billiard to go the limit There
We're just two out when the cannon
aiding started, Seaton having famed
the breezes and Anderson being a
victim of 'McKechnie and Sehaefer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Gilmore Saw the Carnars.

James A.. Gilmore, president of the
Federal League. with George S. aud
Robert B. Ward, watched the game
from in back of the Tip Tops bench.
After the contest, President Gilmore
visited the press box and saw the
seribes comparing notes with the off,
cial scorer The score:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
Rilliari Just nfiscued.

Only one run was scored from the
delivery, of Whitehouse, in the fifth
inning. The other counts were clicked
from young man answering to the
name of Billiard, who went to the
mound with the bases filed. Billiard
maybe forgot to chalk his cue. At
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
BROOKLYN.
'Batted for Billiard in the seventh.
fBatted for Brandon in the ninth.

fBatted for Brandon in the ninth.
Newark -. 0 0 0 3 0 0 l. @
Brooklyn -. 0 l 0 2 10 0 0 x--17
Two-base hits-Myers, westerzil, Sea-
flies-scheer, Myers. Sacrifice hit
Roush. Stolen bases-Rariden, Warren,
Magee, Westerzil, Reed. Double plays
Rariden to Laporte; Reed to Magee to
Myers; Magee to Myers. Bases on balls
Brandon 1, of Seaton g. Struck out-By
C. Whitehouse 2, by Brandon 2, by
Seaton 2. Hit by pitcher-By Seaton /.
Wild pitches-Billiard, Seaton. Hits-Off
c. Whitehouse. 8 in four and two thirds
innings; of Billiard, in one and one
third innings; off Brandon, 4 In two
innings. Umpires-Johnstone and Fyfe.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-16
NEWARK IN HOLIDAY
MOODFOR OPENING
Every Fan and Fanness Happy
When Old Sol Beams
Down.

A dozen circus days with all their
gay frills and trappings could not
compare with the big celebration and
welcome the Federal League and the
Newark Federal League team ,is re-
ceiving today. The stage is set, the
scenes. which have been in course
of preparations for weeks, are in
place and the actors, who have been
rehearsing and have already been
tried out in five games, are ready to
trod the boards.
Nothing half so spectacular has
been staged in a baseball way-not
even when Newark took of its hat
and cheered for the pennant-winner
of two years ago in the international
League. That was minor league
event. Today's affair is major
league event and the fans cele-
brated in u major league way.
There was many happy heart to-
day in breast, both young and old,
when the curtains were drawn and
hasty survey of the weather condi-
tions resulted favorably. Old Sol
crept out of the East in an un-
clouded sky with all of his fiery
radiance and smiles to bestow upon
the occasion.
Better Than Worlds Series.
If worlds series game were to be
played here Newark could scarcely
show more interest--this is really a
more important event that in a
worlds series baseball game could
even pretend to be. Worlds series
are only momentary affairs that last
but day, while the Feds are here
permanently.
The early rush for tickets when
the offices of the Newark Federal
League club were thrown open in the
Kinney building caused all doubt
about the success of opening day to
vanish away as mist before the sun.
The Pops, governed by Bill Phil
lips, owned by P. T. Powers and
Harry F. Sinclair and boasted of the
Feds as worthy champions, are tho
team that will represent Newark.
Every manager. magnate and player
in the league admits that the Pops
deserved the title last year. The
team is one to be proud of.
The Baltimore team reached New
York at o'clock this morning and
is staying at the Endicott Hotel.
Manager Otto Knabe stated that he
had Bill Bailey ready for the fray.
Bill had the Indian sign on the Peps
last year. when they represented In
dianapolis.
Knabe says that his team : is not
yet in, the best of shape. When the
players hit the pitchers fall down.
and vice versa. He Is not at all
worried. however. over the poor start
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13
HOW TO RESTORE PROS
PERITY

If the party in power wants to
restore national prosperity, let it
lead to constructive work by
sweeping away many of the har-
assing restrictions of business for
which it, as we'll as the Republ;-
can party, is responsible. Under
such policy, with a willingness
to admit mistakes and to over
come them by reversal of some
of the plumbers committed in de
stroying the sugar industry and
injuring others by free trade ten
denotes, there would quickly come
prosperity to the cotton growers
of the south, to the sugar pro-
ducers of Louisiana and the west
to every factory in the land, to the
railroads and to every industrial
and business interest of our coun
try.-Bay City Mich Nationa
Farmer.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13
CANADA'S GOOD SENSE

The Canadian government has
had the courage to do what the
Wilson administration refuses to
do-raise the tariff rates to secure
the revenue necessary. While the
United States is steadily losing
money and the deficit is growing,
the administration refuses to
make any change in its tariff laws
because it would be an acknowl-
edgement of inefficiency in draft
ing the tariff laws. The Canadian
government gives no thought OF
its former policy; it sees the nee
essity of raising more money and
it promptly changes its tariff
schedule to meet the emergency.
In the case of goods now on the
free list there will hereafter be a
customs charge OF ~ per cent
on goods from the United States
and elsewhere, with the exception
of Great Britain and colonies on
the preferential list, where the
charge will be 5 per cent. From
the increased tariff duties an an
nual revenue of between $20,OOO,-
600 and $25,OOO,0OO is expected.
.-Doylestown { Pa intelligence.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13
PROPER KIND OF SEA
SUBSIDIES

Senator Nelson met the argu-
ment for sea subsidies the other
day with the pointed suggestion
that the merchant marine could be
revived more legitimately by a
discriminating duty in its favor.
That is the way the American
marine was fostered in its early
growth century ago.
Discriminating duties are pro-
vided for in the Underwood tar
iff law. They have not been used,
because they would violate COM
mercial treaties with many ma
tons. This seems to Senator Mel
son good time to denounce those
treaties and reduce by 10 per cent
the customs duties on goods car
ried under the American flag. OPP
position from foreign nations
would be weakened by the urgent
need of neutral shipping to keep
alive the commerce on which their
people subsist, while their own
shipping is idle or serving the uses
of war.
American shipping has been
driven from the high seas by the
establishment of a higher stand
ard of living in the United States
for the benefit of the whole Amerl-
can people. This increases the
cost of building ships in our yards
and operating them on American
wages. They cannot compete in
freight charges with ships built
and run under foreign wage
scales.
The only remedy is to balance
the necessary heavier cost with
heavier earnings. The direct sub
sidy way of doing this is unpopu-
lar in the United States, though it
has built up wonderfully the Ger
man and Japanese merchant
fleets. The remedy of discrim-
mating duties would operate more
impartially and put the cost upon
consumers benefited, at home AMI
abroad, instead of upon all the
taxpayers.
American ships paying 10 per
cent less on freight in American
custom houses can charge so
much more carrying it to pay their
heavier cost and wages, and make
return voyages more easily prof
itable.-Minneapolis Journal
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13
THE WHITE HOUSE
DREAMER

Inquiry at our State employ
ment bureau recently showed that
the conditions of unemployment
in Massachusetts, are the worst
ever recorded there. The war has
aggravated conditions little, but
they were bad enough before the
war. Reports from all over the
country seem to show practically
the same conditions elsewhere.
One hundred times as many
applications for work are made
as can be filled. The city and
State and the charitable assocla-
tions are making desperate efforts
to find work for the unemployed,
vet even so the best we have been
able to do is to give jobs to 70
men to the disappointment OF =
500 other job seekers every day.
When President Wilson, in the
face of such unparalleled misery
and unemployment, fritters away
his time on pet project for en-
broiing this country in trout lie
with Europe and glibly repeats
that there is really nothing the
matter with bushes" outside OF
Condition of the mind could
anything more clearly show the
intolerable and f1ippant ignorance
of the idealist who will not face
the stern, uncomfortable crisis
of our national depression?
This widespread national de
preston, misery. stagnation, must
be faced. President Wilson must
wake up Boston Advertiser
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13

P. V. Collins, editor of the
Northwestern Agriculturist of
Minneapolis, is out in a ringing
article favoring protection. He
was the Progressive candidate for
Governor of Minnesota in 1912.
Protection Republicans, Protec-
ton Progressives and Protection
Democrats are uniting for the
campaign of l9l6.-Marion (Ia. }
Register.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-03-13

The next Republican candidate
will be a Republican, nominated
by Republicans on Republican
platform. He will not be half
Populist, one-fourth Democratic
and a quarter Socialist, as some
of the discredited Bull Moose
leaders would have him, but
sound American, one who believes
in the representative form of gov
eminent and who is a fearless and
sincere Interpretation of the pro-
tective tariff principle. No mug
wump need apply.-Washing
Gazette.