El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-22

! Crunse, Cardinal outfielder, faced.
Mike Kelly, manager Of the st. Paul
american association club, put the
matter up to Cruise.
Cruise ,..ouoht il over for a couple
Of hours and decided to go TO st. Paul
Cruises decision gives the baseball
world something novel TO talk about
Walton, il is safe to say, is the first
ball player with an iron-clad major
league contract to step up to his en-
plOyer and say:
4 could stay here, but I would rather
you should send me to the minors this
year"
But it looks like Cruise is doing the
wise thing. He could stay with the
Cards and rot" on the bench all sum
mer. but he prefers the more congenial
occupation OF daily performance with
a high-class minor league organization.
For several days there have been
stories drifting in from the Pirates
star in a bush league, who Is expected
to leave hurriedly for another tall grass
campaign. It Is said that he bitterly
bemoaned his fate because he failed
to strike a hitting stride and felt that
his great opportunity had slid py as he
helplessly famed the air. and lin ~ a
more sinister story drifted through OF
how he tried to persuade a kid recruit
to lay off the hard try and give him
a chance to grab a berth in the sun
light. writes Joe Kelly in the Pittsburg
ChrOnicle-Telegr
One may feel contempt for a fellow
like that, one who, realizing that he
has lost out, tries to brace an honest
fight with a crooked turn, but the con-
tempt must be tinged with pity. For
to the EOungSter comes the chance to
try once more, to the old head il never
comes again. And Yet this fellow If
he goes back defeated. should be bet
ter pleased than il he had won by IN
fair -leans- The game itself is worth
while, and an honest failure carries
heavy edge over crooked win.
That the highest officer Of the base
ball nlayers' union should get up a
warning cry against present tendencies
is not surprising, says writer IN the
Dallas News The occasion or surprise,
If any, is that he has waited so long
TO admonish them that they h ye~fas
tened too tight a grip about the neck OF
the goose that has been laying the
golden eggs Tor them OF prodiglous size
The rebellion which the Federal league
set up against baseball gave the players
their opportunity, and they seized it
with more lustiness than prudence.
There is scarcely one OF them VINO has
not terrOriZed the clubs Of the organ
lied league into raising his wages,
with the result that many Of the clubs
are in a condition Of bankruptcy, a
large number in precarious state, and
only a few that enter the season with I
any assurance of coming out OF It SOL
vent The baseball players might II
greed had not blinded them, ave fore /
seen the predicament that now yawns
before them. There were precedents
in plenty to warn them against the I
Of taxing the traffic all it viii
bear The railroads, the originators of |
that policy. discovered the folly Of II
long before the baseball players were I
given a chance 10 be guilty Of it. That
they fell into a pitfau so abundantly
marked can hardly be surprising, how |
ever. since the policy is still being
oractfced by other groups Of wage I
5arners. who have apparently set out /
10 socialize industry by claiming all Of |
It's profits as their spoil