The Washington herald., 1917-05-05
JOHNSON Will GET
HEARING in SENATE
Financial Committee of Upper Body to
Hear Plea Of Organized Baseball.
~ JOHN A. DUGAN.

Ran a johnson. president OF the Amer
l,c.r League. who In In this city to be
beard nv Congress In reference to the
taxatjon of baseball under the 10 per
cent amusement tax which Is to be put
i'm eject to meet the war debt, may yet
be heard.
agreed to hear tho plea Of the big mogul
az baseball. Ban B. johnson will no
doubt appear before this body this morn
ling and state the ways and wherebys of
organized baseball
John K. Tener. president Of the Ma
tional League, who was a visitor here on
Thursday for two hours. was not here in
reference to baseball The former gov
ernor of Pennsylvania was in our midst
IN reference to the day light saving
proposition which may go before Com
gress. as the taxation OF baseball has
been left entirely in the hands of Pres
lident Johnson. of the American League.
The Ways and Means Committee of the
House of Representatives yesterday decid-
ed to place a 10 per cent tax on amuse-
ments which will include baseball tickets
This means 10 per cent assessment on
gross receipts on all teams figuring in or
ganized baseball.
II President comiskey has already ievied
his tax voluntarily upon his box office
revenues and his check for 10 per cent of
gross earnings Of the Chicago White
Sox, amounting to more than 5000 has
can Red Cross.
BLACK Jack" Barry and his world
champion Boston Red Sox arrived here
yesterday morning In a driving rain
storm Old Jup Pluv halted the first
game Of the series yesterday by flooding
the Florida Avenue Stadium and MAX
A. lAar 80 A.
Baby" Ruth, the big southpaw who
has scored four victories to date, or
Ernie Shore, the lanky curve twister,
will be pitted against the Nationals in
the game today. The Grifrrnan are sure
to face each OF the Boston stars within
the next ave days
Tho Red Sox are here untn wednes-
day. when they VIII jump aboard the
Pittsburgh express bound for Detroit.
where their first western invasion starts,
Bert Gallia or Doc Ayers are slated to
do the mound duties for the Nationals
Johnson will no doubt do the honors on
Monday while Harry Harper. who showed
great form against the New York Yam
KEGS on Wednesday, will no doubt get the
call on Tuesday with either Du Mont or
Shaw in the role for the final contest
The game today win start at o'clock
Instead OF $50. as tho club officials
reached an agreement a few weeks ago
to hold all Saturday games at this hour.
Merito Aoosta. the little Cuban that
Clark Griffith turned over to the BaltI-
more International League Club a few
days ago was the hero OF the first vic
tory registered by the Orioles on for
eign field. His timely two-base blow in
the ninth sent homo the first two runs of
the game, and his spectacular running
catch Of Trout's low liner near the foul
line in the same inning killed a Toronto
rally. After his great grab Acosta made
a perfect peg to Alva Williams at first,
doubling up Jacobson
Some one has gone through the lists
of major league players and found that
IA Of them are eligible to be conscript-
ed, II the age limit Is fixed between q
and q. This would be more than 50 per
cent of the men now drawing salary
for playing with the sixteen clubs. The
club that would be hit the hardest Is
the Athletics. as nearly every player o4
Manager Mack's staf is under the q
mark. Bodie, Strunk. and FaIkenberx
would be about the only exceptions
Should married men be exempt in the
first call the number that would be
drafted would be cut down to probably
around the 100 mark, or an average of
six or seven players per club. This
"OuO pFlnB me teams DOWN TO sixteen
or eighteen players per club and they
would have to fill out with lot Of vet
Grams from minor leagues. It is a tick
lish situation for the magnates, since
they have contracts with their players
which must be met. as we'll as large
overhead expenses which must be met,
war or no war.
!. Already the minor leagues are begin
ming to realize that they are I'D against
/ a losing nTOD0Sttinn IA has
given them poor start and to get as
much money as possible early in the
season they have adopted the plan OF
advancing games and playing double
headers on Saturdays and Sundays.
A few years ago Jim Vaughn was
considered a very bright pitching pros
! pect on the stan Of the New York Yam
: KEGS. Instead of improving however, the
southpaw seemed to lose favor and was
J allowed to leave the outfit Finally the
American League passed him up and he
managed to catch on with the Cubs
He staged q real honest-to-goodness
comeback last season. pitching wonder
ful ball for a very weak team. but We'd
nesday he made himself good with every
fan In the United States by helping
Fred Toney break a worlds hurting
record He and Fred went along through
nine innings, neither allowing either hit
or run, but IN the tenth frame Bill
kopf. the former oriole, started trouble
by making the first safety, a single Then
came rank mum and a little scratch
which Jim was slow in handling, and
Cincinnati won a game which will oc-
cupy prominent page in baseban's
history.
Toney always has been regarded as
brilliant. Had he signed with a regular
team instead OF the Reds he probably
now would be classed as one of the
greatest twtrlers who ever stepped on the
rubber But even the meddling of out
siders in Cincinnati cannot hold this star
down
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