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Southern Performers and Those in All Other Circuits Should Be Enrolled
BASEBALL ‘UNION’ NEEDS MINOR LEAGUE PLAYERS
Bv W. S. Farnsworth.
WHEN the Detroit baseball
players “struck” last sum
mer because Ty Cobb, of
Georgia, had been suspended for
heating up a rowdy spectator In New
York, they launched the Players
Baseball Fraternity, an organiza
tion that is now struggling to get a
foothold. But whether this “union”
Is going to amount to anything de
pends entirely on the limitations of
Its membership.
[f the "union” Is to consist only
„f major league players. I look for
It to have a short life. But If the
diamond warriors of the Southern,
International and American asso
ciation are admitted, then It may
possess some power.
A wise scheme for the new or
ganization would be to have an
open membership to every player
in organized baseball. At least,
players in every league down to and
Including class B should be en
rolled.
Otherwise tha Baseball Players
Fraternity will cut about as much
toe as did Doc Cook after his al
leged North Pole discovery had
seen exposed,
Such moves ae this are recurrent.
About once in every baseball gen
eration, if the financial condition of
the game warrants it, the players
have come forward with demands
for reforms, chief among which
has always boon the request for a
,anger proportion ol the emoluments
of baseball.
Only Once Was There a Strike.
But once, in 1890, did the players
endeavor to enforce their demands
by actually going on strike, but
that is all that differentiates the
Brotherhood revolt from the Union
association movement of 1884 and
the Players Protective association
of 1900.
The first of these movements, the
Union association of 1884. though
frankly capitalistic In Its organiza
tion, nevertheless owed a portion
of its ephemeral success by espous
al of the cause of the "downtrod
den” players.
The Brotherhood movement of
six years later was the most se
rious attempt on part of the play
ers to control the financial end of
baseball yet made. Prior to the
revolt the organization had been
limited altogether to players under
contract to National league clubs.
When the men went out they
look with them many of the stars
of the American association. But
they failed in their effort to control
baseball mainly because they failed
to make the league pay and with
their backers consequently lost
heap.
Protective Asa'n Was a Joke.
The Players Protective associa
tion, formed ten years later, never
amounted to much. Coinciding, as
its organization did, with the war
between the National and Ameri
can leagues, the players of that
day lost sight completely of mu
tual aid or anything else in the
rnad scramble after fat contracts.
Tlje present organization asks
openly for the better protection of
rhe players while on the field.
There can be no objection to that.
They have not ae yet demanded
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would when the association first
took definite shape last September,
but this demand may be forthcom
ing later.
They have not made any financial
demands thus far. but that this fea
ture was uppermost in the minds
of many who have subscribed to
the organization was showp last
summer, when in discussing the
matter the players said that a de
mand for half pay on training trips
would be asked in 1913. No men
tion whatever, so far as the writer
knows, of demands as to salary in
crease was made, except by some
of the Detroit players while on
strike last May, and then only in
directly.
Should any attempt be made to
r fodder FOR FAN§n
Mik? Finn hasn t signed his contract,
THtri Mobile yet. He undoubtedly will,
however. He made a hit with the Gulls
last year.
* * »
... '’!?£ club is said to have made
$19,000 last season, against $1.2,000 it lost
the previous season. That’s picking up
29°? Particularly in a desperatelburg like
Mobile.
• • •
Hugh Duffy and William Clymer are the
candidates to succeed George Stallings
las manager of the Buffalo club. The wise
guys are betting on Clymer to land.
• * .
Lefty George, of the Toledo team, has
been seriously sick with appendicitis at
York, Pa. This appendicitis is getting
awfully popular wjth ball players.
* * V
Bill Fisher, the Louisville first baseman,
is playing In the San Diego team during
the winter season. He also has a nice
cigar business at Pasadena, Cal. Also he
has a bank account.
♦ • *
Kocker, a Detroit recruit, has been sent
to the Providence team to take the place
of Gabby Street, wire will go to Chatta
nooga.
e * •
If participation in world’s series are for
bidden by the commission from writing
for the press they will be saved the hu
miliation of having to swallow a lot of
punk predictions.
* * *
Larry Schlafly had a one-year contract
with Jersey City this year and will es
cape. He says he would prefer to work
elsewhere than to play at Jersey City.
Toronto has sent Outfielder Jack Dalton
to Brooklyn for a tryout next spring. The
Dodgers aren't taking him very seriously.
• • •
George Capron, baseball and football
star, is said to have sold a ranch for $5,000
and bet it all on the Red Sox. P. S.— He
cashed.
• • V
Hoblitzel took down a suit of clothes for
batting in the most runs for the Reds.
At that it wasn't nearly enough. •
* • •
After Joe Birmingham took hold of the
Naps they won three-fourths of their
games. If he had started the season it
might have been different. And then again
it might not. Leading the Naps Is an un
certain calling at best.
* ♦ »
Walter Johnson took down $250 for
pitching one game up in Massachusetts
the other day, That is mighty near a
world s series salary.
It will be tough on tha American asso
ciation old timers if that organization
puts a salary limit into effect. For the
old timers would be the ones to stand the
cut or get the ax.
A hunch has been developed in Cincin-
When you have a bad cold you want
the bast medicine obtainable, so as to
cure It with as little delay as possi
ble. Here is a druggist's opinion: "I
have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
for fifteen years,” says Enos Dollar, of
Saratoga. Ind., "and consider it the
best on the market." For sale by all
dealers. (Advt.)
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1912.
strike at the present time, such
movement would necessarily result
in failure. Organized baseball Is
far more strongly fortified today
than it was in 1890, when the un
successful Brotherhood revolt oc
curred. But it is not likely that
players, in the light of past expe
riences and with so wise a heud as
David Fultz leading the associa
tion'. will attempt any movement of
this sort, at least until they have
extended their organization to at
least as low as class B.
Then, if a considerable percent
age of their members do not suc
cumb to tempting offers sure to be
made by the magnates of the two
big leagues in event of a strike,
they can go out with some rea
sonable prospects of success.
A strike under existing conditions
would be almost necessarily fatal.
nati that Horace Fogel has been made the
victim of Charley Murphy, that Horace
jumped on the umpires at Murphy's sug
gestion and that now Cholly will desert
him and allow the the National league
to kick him out. Well, anyway, that's one
debt of gratitude the N. L. will owe
Noisy Charles.
• • ♦
Ever hear of an umpire having any
luck? Well, note this year what Rlgler
has done. He had a steady job in Cuba
all winter, with a real salary attached;
be umpired a full season in the National
league, got his slice of the world’s se
ries money, was slipped a bit for discov
ering Eppa Rizey and now is ready to
lead some barnstormers to Cuba on a
trip that should be a money maker.
« *
Announcements- have been Issued from
Central league headquarters that Spring
field finished third Instead of fourth as
reported.
Sheckard would like the job of man
aging the Brooklyn club, ft is a modest
aspiration, surely. If anybody In the
world wants that job here’s hoping he
gets it.
• • •
Chicago players and fans are getting
ready to give Mordecai Brown a testi
monial benefit. Foolish. He doesn't need
it. He’s laeen making a fat salary for
years and not wasting much of it. He'll
keep, all right.
« * •
The Oakland manager gave "Vinnie”
Ward a try on his club for the sole rea
son that he was a cousin of Duffy Lewis.
And Vinnie made good.
• , «
The Red Sox players gave their mascot
$3.20 for his efforts during the champion
ship series and the world’s series. He was
a good mascot, too.
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Today's Big Games
Following are the most important
football games scheduled for the South,
East and West today;
South.
Tech vs. Florida, at Jacksonville.
Georgia vs. Alabama, at Columbus.
Auburn vs. Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanieal. at Birmingham.
Sewanee vs. Tennessee, at Chatta
nooga.
Vanderbilt vs. Mississippi, at Nash
ville.
Clemson vs. Citadel, at Clemson.
Tulane vs. Howard, at New Orleans.
Washington and Lee vs. Wake For
est. at Lexington. Va.
Tech Scrubs vs. Stone Mountain, at
Atlanta.
Virginia Military Institute vs. West
ern Maryland, at Lexington. Va.
Davidson vs. North Carolina Agricul
tural and Mechanical, at Charlotte.
Mercer vs. Steu(>n, at Waycross.
East.
Princeton vs. Dartmouth, at Prince
ton.
Yale vs. Washington and Jefferson, at
New Haven.
Penn vs. Lafayette, at Philadelphia.
Harvard vs. Brown, at Cambridge.
Cornell vs. Bucknell, at Ithaca.
Carlisle vs. Georgetown, at Washing
ton.
Army vs. Colgate, at West Point
Navy vs. Pittsburg, at Annapolis.
Syracuse vs. Michigan, at Syracuse.
Penn State vs. Gettysburg, at Penn
State.
Ursinus vs. Lehigh, at South Beth
lehem.
Wesleyan vs. Tufts, at Medford.
Williams vs. New York, at New York.
Holy Cross vs. Massachusetts Ag
gies, at Worcester.
Amherst vs. Trinity, at Amherst.
Penn Freshmen vs. Mercersburg, at
Mercersburg.
Harvard Freshmen vs. Exeter, at
Exeter.
West.
Chicago vs. Purdue, at Chicago.
Minnesota vs. lowa, at Minneapolis.
Indiana vs. Northwestern, at Indian
apolis.
•Marquette vs. Lawrence, at Milwau
kee.
Washington vs. Rolla, at St. Lou»
St. Louis vs. Miami, at St. Louis.
DePauw vs. Michigan Aggies, at
Lansing
Notre Dame vs. Wabash, at Notre
Dame.
Kansas vs. K. C. A. C.. at Lawrence.
Ohio State vs. Ohio Wesleyan, at
Columbus.
Oberlin vs. Western Reserve, at
Cleveland.
Colorado vs. Wyoming, at Boulder.
Denver vs. Occidental, at Los An
geles.
Utah vs. Mines, at Denver.
Oregon vs. Washington State, at
Portland.
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Haifa Dozen Ambitious Leaders Have Already Been Given Ukase
WHOLESALE DECAPITATION OF MAJOR MANAGERS
By Damon Runyon.
IT'S surely one sad and mourn
ful scene to wake up every’
morning and find the back
yard bestrewn with jobless base
ball managers, just as a long, hard
winter is about to break out and
run amuck. If al! the various
changes had been made during the
course of the regular season, the
clutter could have been cleared
away In the general routine of
business without attracting any
great amount of attention, but at
this particular time the huge mass
of the unemployed is clogging the
wheels of traffic.
So far, about half a dozen big
league managers have been given
the good old raus, with several
precincts which are normally "agin"
second terms for any leader yet to
be heard from.
Joe Tinker Is apparently to sup
plant Hennery O'Day at Cincinnati,
which is a dignified way of stating
that Josephus will horn the ex-ump
out of a fat situation. Presumably
Hennery will again don the blue
badge of big league servitude, un
less Murphy signs him to take Joe’s
job at short. Hennery is said to
have a standing offer from Ban
Johnson.
Johnny Evers has succeeded
Flank Chance as chfcf of the
bogged-down Cub machine, and all
John has to do to make a big hit Is
to get a new shortstop, outfield and
pitching staff, and finish first in
1913.
Stovall Takes to Worrying.
Roger Bresnahan is quite natur
ally uttering shrill, fiutelike notes
over his summary’ dismissal at St.
Louis, but it is said that the Great
Hen Pecked has been offered the
St. Louis Browns As Chance is
also alleged to have been tendered
the same job. George Stovall has
something to think about o' nights.
The St. Louis Cardinal schedule is
for Miller Huggins to relieve the
Rajah, unless the Duke of Bucking
ham gets relief from some court.
George Stallings has eased hinri
self Into a situation without any
great disturbance, although it is
said Johnny Kling went away from
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