Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-20
TO RACE
IN CANES:
MACK M
Leader of athletics Insist
Publicity on Salaries anc
Purchase Prices Lo,cer
Standard of Play
SPORTSCRIBES' BANQUEi
By JAMES 5.

TT TAKES a sport writer's banquet I
L make Connie Mack speak. Connie
"onversant, not ccnvivial, but the sur
r"nnd'ngs were such that it made tn
usually silent sage laxative. For MOI
than 500 days annually Connie is q
easy to interview as a sphinx, but q
the sport writer's gatherings he open
up Last night at the fifteenth annus
Fession at the Hoe Walton the saga
elous pilot told the mere than 400 au
"'tors many interesting things.
h rangy manager very v%igorousl
informed the fans that the Athletic
We're going to nave a very good tear
ms sca'on, but Connie would be n
dehted to every one. including Il
scribes. If they %obliglngly would refrai
from publishing anything about sal
aries.
Money, anything that resembles col
well. kindly keep that out of prin
me Iong green does not harmonic wit
the diamond green n has "a tendenc
TO distract the Woodworking athlete,
therefore 1t is for the good of the gan
ana the players to keep silent on sal
ares purchase prices, ines and othe
avenues CT monetary transfers.
Connie Aroused
Connie wasn't the only speaker, bu
ne impaired the ,newsiest' informatio
OF the night. Conni always was yer
sensitive about money matters, and mad
IL knoWn that In the future the onl
news which would come from the "
cinity of T~wenty-first and Lehigk woul
be about the players.
The fans want good baseball an
dont care what they receive" crate
the aroused Connie after warming L
10 the topic, the subject, for twenty-tw
minutes and ~th'rty-nine seconds. accort
ing to DR.. q. w. Wittmaier's stop watcl
The greatest drawb; elk 10 the. IAN
mas been the introduction of the thea
rical-the pseudo initiation Of purcha
prices and salaries by at least 3uU u,
cent-all for the advertising. Til
doesn't do any good. / hope it ha
ended, and I believe the checking of tn.
evil viii be for the good Of the game"
Wears No Decorations
Connie wears no medals for contil,
uous service. but has been throue
three baseball wars and still is on to,
He has survived, the future is br'gh
ana with the nucleus of a very goo
team, expects to be out there causin
trouble all season.
Connie, the pronounced pessimist ,
other days. now is rated with the supei
optlmists.
The large, vociferous and enthusiast
gathering heard other distinguish
speakers. They iistered to arF MOI
roe, former celebrated heavyweight, I,
count a few of his experiences with Il
famous Princess Pat Regiment
france; they heard Harry Davis. T.,
calling his days as manager, exter
] SynInl nv IN VDnly r. 49,. .rI 1r.l n
son and extol Connie Mack they eager
devoured Ne:y word that dropped lro.
the lips of Philadelphia Jack O'Brie
Louis Fl. Jaffe, Bill Donovan. David
Ludlum and George f. C'Stoney") NJ,
Linn and ?pplauded the fluent effori
OF Or Thomas Davis and Robert '
Maxwell.
Boost the Booster
1t was a wonderful evening for II
sport fraternity. 1t breathed prosperit
raped the knockers. Boost and mo,
boost was the slogan. The boost Il
booster and knock the knocker" sloga
was introduced by Jack Sproul, pincl
hitting for his father. the Governor. Tt
other speakers agreed with Jack, an.
the knockers came In for an awful rap.
m +. Dougherty, the Baron
Le-I-pervifle. took a diplomatic rap
the Peppers which wasn't In keepin
with the boosting slogan but the Barol
who was sandwiched between n brace e
husky boosters. soon hid the boXir
game standing out as it never stood b.
fore. Even Charles Heeb, u chron
kicker. smiled when he listened to Il
Baron. the convert.
Samuel J. Dallas. the president &
he National A. A.. L., and Ted Mer
dith, a noted athlete, spoke. Mr.. Pc
lock, just one co'umn to the left. has d
voted his efforts 10 imparting the me
sage of this pair of famous leaders {
amateur sport
Jack CoOmbs Absent
Jack Coombs, new manager of Il
Pills. and Kid Gleason. manager of Il
White SoN, We're unable to be presen
Both forwarded kilograms expressing r.
grets.
George Graham, "A former preside
of the association. was POSTMASTER. "
the role of master of ceremonies at n
comeback dinner, he more than mac
good.
Ross Kaufman, president of the Phi
adelphia Sporting Writer'S Associate
opened the evening with a review {
sports and the 1919 outlook.