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LITTLE ACM The Job Was Too Humiliating for Mutt
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By “Bad” Fisher
IN TIE DRAFT
Magnates Merely Tie Up Cash
While Recruits Try to
Make Good.
By Bill Bailey.
O NE of these fine days in the near
future you will read that the
magnates of the majors are on
their way to Cincinnati for drafting
day.
Every magnate will carry two grips.
In one he will have a clean collar and
a tooth brush and various other ar
ticles of a personal nature. In the
other he will have a bunch of cer
tified checks. These are to accom
pany his drafts and to pay for the
men he secures in the annual lottery.
This grip will be carried in his right
hand and guarded closely.
Immediately afterward will come
stories that this of that magnate had
certified checks amounting to $30,000.
•‘He certainly is spending the coin.”
will be the comment. And immedi
ately we will picture the magnate
as of the sort who cares no more for
a thousand dollars than he does for
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a cancelled postage stamp. The in
terviewers will say that he said that
he didn't care what it cost, that he
was determined to give his town the
bes»t to be had and that he appre
ciated the greatness of his city to
the extent that he would spend his
last cent to put his gang on top.
Fine.
But is he going to spend all that
money? Not on your life. That isn't
saying that he wouldn’t spr>nd a lot of
money if he knew that he was going
to get what he bargained for. Since
he can’t get that assurance he
naturally protects himself to a con
siderable extent.
AA Men Expensive.
He goes in with a draft far a bunch
of AA men. Now, they cost a lot of
money. Any time that you take a
man from that class you have to put
up $2,500.
Well, it’s cinch, of course, that a
man must show something before he
attracts the attention of the scout.
And the latter must turn In a pretty
glowing account before he induces the
boss to put his name at the bottom
of the check.
But the draft goes in. Say that the
magnate secures four of these fellow’s
There’s $10,000 invested in ball play
ers. His liberality is applauded. Then
the team goes South in the Spring
time. The four fellows who cost
$10,000 are among the passengers on
the train. When the training camp
is reached they are watched carefully.
Being touted as stars in a high-class
minor league indicates that they
should show considerable when they
reach the majors.
Instead, they are disappointments.
Somehow or other, they fall to live to
the expectations of the manager, and
he Informs the owner that the re
cruits won’t do.
Back in the minors they are glad
to get those fellows. For they were
whales the year before, favorites with
the fans, and tha* sort of thing. Back
comes a check calling for the same
amount that the major magnate gave
in the fall.
Buying on Contingency.
What diet the deal cost the major
league magnate? Just the expense of
the recruit on the training trip.
Just before the drafting .‘•'eason
comes on a bunch of youngsters are
purchased. Frequently the price is
$3,000 or more. The youngster hasn't
shown enough to make him stand out,
but he is a bit too promising to take
a chance on in the draft. Some mag
nate wants him and he doesn’t want
to run the risk of Home other club
drafting him. Neither is his hunch
strong enough to justify him in pay
ing a lot of cash.
So he says he will give a small part
in cash and the remainder will be paid
If the player makes good. By that in
meant that if the player remains with
the major league team until a certain
date In the following year.
Of course, it goes into the estimates
as a sale. But if the youngster fails
to show’ then all that the major league
magnate is out is the cash which he
deposited at the time of the sale.
So w’hen the major league magnate
goes down to Cincinnati and invests
$30,000 in drafted players it doesn't
mean that he actually spent that
much money to strengthen his team.
It merely means that he tied up that
sum for the privilege of trying out a
large string of youngsters the next
spring. The fellows he keeps will
represent what he spent in strength
ening..
Some Cost Real Money.
But don’t get the impression that all
deals are conducted in that manner.
Larry Chappell cost $18,000 in real
monev. There was a cash sum paid.
John Beall went to Milwaukee. On
top of that, President Comiskey prom
ised a catcher to be delivered in the
spring If that catcher doesn’t sub,
then the Milwaukee team may take
in his place a specilied sum of money.
* The point that is being made in
that while $500,000 may be spent this
vear by major league magnates for
minor league ball players, a large
percentage of that sum is coming
back to those same magnates when
they begin to unload the undesirables
next spring.
Langford Picked to Beat Johnson CARDINALS NOT
Jack Always Feared Colored Pival FOR SALE, SAYS
By Jack Conway.
T HE world’s colored heavyweight
championship match between
Jack Johnson and Sam Lang
ford, which will take place in Paris in
December, has aroused sporting men
in this country and Europe. Thou
sands of people, w’ho care very little
about athletic contests, are also show-
ing an intense amount of interest in
the coming battle between the two
rival negro heavyweights*, who are in
ternational characters.
Johnson lias always feared Lang
ford and has turned down numerous
offers for matches with the ‘‘Tar
Baby.” He. has claimed that a fight
between two negro heavyweights
would not be a financial success, but
close followers of the ring game real
ized that the real reason why Johnson
did not desire to battle Langford was
because he was afraid that the hard
hitting Cambridge negro would knock
him out.
Tire Galveston man fought Lang
ford in Chelsea back in 1906. At that
time Johnson was trying to forge his
w r ay to the front ranks of the heavy
weight division. He was not consid
ered a world-beater and when he was
offered a bout with Langford he glad
ly accepted It.
Met Before in Chelsea.
Sam wae then only a welterweight,
while Johnson weighed all of 200
pounds. Was it any wonder, then,
that tight ’’fans” thought that John
son would win easily? But he did
not. For fifteen rounds Langford
rushed at Johnson, swinging terrific
right and left punches. He fought
like a panther at bay and gave John
son the hardest battle of his career.
Johnson won the decision, hut he
was in poor shape when the bout end
ed. The stalwart Johnson had had
enough of Langford’s game and for
seven years has turned a deaf ear to
Sam’s c hallenges.
Joe Woodman, Langford’s manager,
has been undaunted. He has kept his
battler busy in the ring and has al
ways had in view a match with John
son. His efforts have finally been
successful.
The writer does not believe that
Johnson even now cares a great deal
about fighting Langford. He is meet
ing his old rival because he is “broke”
and must have funds.
Johnson About “Broke.”
There are many people who believe
that Johnson is worth many thou
sands of dollars. They are mistaken.
The only “big” money which Johnson
ever made was w r hen he fought Jef
fries. He received $60,000 for his enrl
of the purse when he vanquished the
former heavyweight champion. He
also got a $10,000 bonus, w hile ho sold
his moving picture privileges for $50,-
000. making a total of $120,000.
Johnson made a little money on th^
stage, while he picked un a few odd
dollars In minor bouts. His last bout
w’lth Jim Flynn was a financial bloom
er and netted the champion but little
money.
Another reason why Johnson Is
fighting Langford Is because no pro
moter would match him with a white
man. They realize that the boxing
game would be given another black
eye if there were another such bout
as the one that was staged in Reno.
Nev., that memorable Fourth of July
in 1910.
Johnson Now on Stage.
Johnson is now’ showing at music
halls in Europe for a salary of $200
a week. This proves that he is in
need of funds. The Johnson of 1910
would not show on the -stage for a
single day unless he was given $200.
He is now’ glad to get this amount
for a week’s work.
Johnson’s fortune has been spent
freely. When he had money he spent
it like a prince. Automobiles, lawyer
fees, fines, forfeited bail, wine sup
pers, clerk hire and traveling ex
penses have made great inroads into
the champion’s bag of gold. He has
been spending his money lavishly
while he has not been adding much
to his bank roll.
The betting on the Johnson-Lang-
ford battle will probably be at even
money. Langford will have many
backers, but thera will be thousand*
of “fans” who will argue that a good
little man can never beat a good big
man.
Johnson, of course, is well on in
years. He is 36 years old, and it
has been a long time since a heavy
weight held the championship at that
age. Jeffries met his Waterloo at
Reno, when he wa<s 35 years old;
Fitzsimmons started to go back at
the age of 34. Corbett was knocked
out by Fitzsimmons at Carson City
when he was 31 years old, while the
mighty John L. Sullivan was flat
tened by Corbett in New Orleans
when he was 34 years of age.
Must Be in Shape.
Ring history also proves that a
heavyweight must keep busy In the
ring If he is to remain In shape.
Johnson has done very little fight
ing in the past three years. His last
bout was with Jim Flynn at Las
Vegas, N. Mex.. a year ago laut Fourth
of July, and boxing experts who saw r
that contest declared that Johnson
was In poor condition and that If
Langford were in Flynn’s place he
might have won the heavyweight
championship.
Langford Is now 27 years of age,
according to the record book, though
there are many who claim that "Ho
Ho” is at least 30 years old. Sam
has been fighting steadily since he
was a lad of 15 years and has en
gaged in over two hundred battles.
He started boxing aa a bantamweight,
but took on weight gradually and now
weighs 186 pounds. This eleven
pounds more than Langford's normal
fighting weight.
Joe Woodman declares that Lang
ford will weigh 175 or 178 pounds
when he enters a ring with Johnson.
The extra weight on Langford is not
doing him any good. It is merely
fat and has slowed him up a great
deal.
17 Twirlers on Detroit Staff
PIES, in IMS FRIE-UP
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Needed’—Lajoie
American League
Magnate Denies Rumors Released
in the East—Huggins to Lead
Team Next Season.
S T. LOUIS, Sept. 6.—The series of
stories exploded in the East re
cently concerning a general
shake-up In the Cardinals, principally
the ousting of Miller Huggins as man
ager; the sale of the club by the Brit
tons; the trade of Ed Koney. Harry
Sallee and quite ft few more of the
players, were answered by President
Schuyler P. Britton upon his return
last night.
Here is what President Britton
said:
Miller Huggins will be the 1914
manager.
The club will not be sold and
we are trying to get new players
that will improve the team for
next year.
Unless we can make a satisfac
tory trade for any players they
will not be swapped. We are not
giving away the few good players
we own.
Boxer Takes Up Golf
In Training for Bont
N'EW YORK. Sept 6 — A boxer who
plays the royal game of golf is some
thing of a novelty even in these days,
when the popular conception of a pro-
o-ssional boxer has ceased to be a low
browed. crop-haired individual. Rut so
far as is known. Bob McAllister is the
tirst knight of the mitt to introduce golf
as a feature of his training. During his
preparations for his recent bout with
Sailor Petroakey. McAllister spent some
lime each morning trudging over the
links lie declares that he finds the
game a good substitute for the usual
loaA work.
Griffith Will Use
Many Port Siders
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Barring
perhaps, two or three right-handed
pitchers, it would not be at all nurpris-
ing if the Washington pitching staff
next season consisted almost entirely of
southpaws. Clark Griffith has come to
the conclusion that left-handed twirlers
do not need as much natural ability to
make good in the big leagues as do
right-handers, and he figures that if the
proper effort is made it will be easier to
find suitable material of this kind.
He has instructed Jill his scouts to
keep a sharp lookout for left-handed
pitchers. He wants to pick up all of
them that he can find, in the hope of
getting three or four southpaws on his
team by next season.
“You have often heard it argued,”
said he, "that left-handed hitters are
not puzzled by left-handed pitchers, but
you bet they are. There are a few left-
handed hitters who hit southpaws oc
casionally. but all of them must admit
that they are handicapped under such
conditions.
“What is more, the right-handed hit
ters are mostly helpless against a left-
handed man who has anything. I want
a whole staff 6f left-handers for mine
in the future and I propose to scour
the country from one end to the other
for them.”
Demarest Gets New
Jap Billiard Expert
RIGLER AGREES WITH MACK.
Umpire Rigler agrees with Connie
Mack that St. Louis will never have a
winning ball club because the heat there
is too severe to allow the playerB to do
their best.
CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. G.—Ikujlro Ta
mura, the champion billiard player of
Japan, who recently arrived in this city,
has signed a contract with Calvin De
marest and for this season at least Ta-
rnura will be under the management of
the local expert.
Like his predecessor, Kojl Yamada,
the new Invader does not profess to be
an expert at balkline play, and he has
crane to this country for the purpose <>f
perfecting himself in the modern game
as played by the leading American pro
fessionals.
Demarest was convinced quickly that
Tarnurn was an adept Jit straight-rail,
and that he had a fine stroke, and for
this reason he undertook to give the
little Japanese player the benefit of his
experience.
Tamura has made a run of 2,090 at
the straight-rail game with three balls
on a 4Vfe by 9 table, and at the four-ball
game has gone as high us 4,000. Ta
mura was born in Tokio thirty-six years
ago. is f> feet 7 inches in height and
weighs 126 pounds. He started playing
billiards when he was sixteen years of
jtge. and for the last twelve years has
been teaching the gume in a Tokio room.
DREW TO ENTER BROWN U.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., Sept. 6 —
Howard S. Drew, the negro high school
student, present American champion
sprinter at 100 yards. Is to enter Brown
T; it was stated here to-day. Drew is
said to have passed his entrance ex
aminations and will be eligible to com
pete In track meets during his first
year.
Britton continued in his conversa
tion, explaining how the many ru
mors have spread around the circuit,
having the Cardinals the feature.
“While we were in New York one
of the papers came out with a story
that there was dissension in the ranks
of the team,” stated Britton. “1 think
the papers were trying to get Koney
and a few more players from us. Then
the most laughable story was that we
were going to s^ell.
Changing Managers Bad Business.
“While we are very disappointed at
the showing Huggins has made, he
will not be dropped. Injuries handi
capped Huggins and the team and he
deserves more than one year.
“Roger Bresr.ahan was in office four
years, and barring 1911 was not a
nuccess. Changing managers every
year will never get ji winning ball
club. Huggins will be in charge In
1914 and we will have many new
players for him.”
That the Cardinals could trade with
every club in the league was men
tioned by Britton, but no magnate
was willing to part with anything
that Britton thought would be ;it
least an even trade. Especially the
Giants who, according to Britton, are
willing to hand over nothing but ex
tra material for Koney, Harmon. Sal
lee and a few more. #
Harmon for Bob Bescner.
One trade is under way and it prob
ably will be completed In a day or si,
It is with the Cincinnati Beds and
will send Bob Harmon to Redland in
exchange for Outfielder Bob Bescher
and Pitcher George Suggs. If it goe.-i
through, then the Cardinals will get
one of the best outfielders in the Na
tional League.
Since mid-season Huggins has been
dickering with Owner Herrmann, al
ways centering his trade around Bon
Bescher. A marvel of an athlete, »
brilliant fielder, timely swJitter and
speed expert. Bescher would fit ill
snugly in the Cardinals’ outfield.
But Herrmann always wanted what
Huggins didn’t want to offer. At ope
stage of the summer Herrmann was
willing to hand over Bescher. ITob-
Utzell and Pitcher Puggs for Lee
Magee and Ed Koney. But Hug
spurned this exchange. He wanted
Indian Johnson Instead of Suggs and
had the Reds’ boss agreed to this the
swap would have been completed.
Now it turn-' to Bescher and Suggs
for Harmon, which Is certain to giv<
the Cardinals the edge.
Club Is Not for Sale’.
“The biggest lie turned out." con
tinued Prexy Britton, “was that we
are going to sell. Every time I pick
up a newspaper I read that we are
going to get out of baseball. Now,
there’s nothing to this. Why should
we sell 0 We want to give St. Louis a
baseball winner and we can't do taat
if we sell tne Cardinals.
“This has been a bad year for us.
but the many changes we expect to
make for 1914 surely will give us ait
improved ball club. We have bought
many players and our scouts have
recommended many more to be draft
ed.”
N EW YORK, Sept. 1.— People wed
informed on baseball, it is said,
have learned that the deal In
volving Larry McLean in exchange
for Otis Crandall, put through re
cently by the Giants and Cardinals,
was merely a blind by which the
Giants could get McLean for a cash
consideration without Involving a
storm of adverse criticism on the
part of the St. Louis fans.
This Is given color by the fact
that Crandall was turned back to
the Giants for no Immediate consid
eration, it being announced that he
returned for "cash and a player to be
delivered when 'he Giants have the
pennant cinched.”
ID EOPLE connected with the New
1 York club have let slip the in
formation that the Cardinals have
been in a bad way financially this
year and were in need of Immediate
assistance. >
When the sporting editor of The St.
Louis Times was in New York re
cently he sat with Otis Crandall each
afternoon at the Browns’ games.
Crandall did not seem at all disturbed
over being “traded” from a winning
club to ;i tail-ender. Neither did he
display any of the concern of a pru
rient man at being dumped out of
his chances for from $3,000 to $3,500
in the world's series
DEMOVE that much money from
the gaze of any athlete and he'd
holler to high heavens, but Crandall
was extremely cheerful. His attitude
at that time seemed strange.
The raising money part of the New
York yarn we know is straight. Re-
portsjhave been current to that ef
fect among baseball people In St.
Louis for some time.
Papke to Try Again
In the Squared Ring
CHICAGO Sept. 6. Billy Papke, at
one time champion middleweight, and
who has been living quietly at his home
in Kewanee. Ill., the past summer, is
to take another flyer at the game and
also the title—that is, if he can make
the weight.
Billy had intended going back to
Paris this fall for a match with either
Frank Klaus or Georges C’arpentier, hut
he has changed his mind and now says
he will remain In the States and grab
off some of the matches in the Middle
West. He is anxious to meet Jack Dil
lon or Eddie MeGoorty.
He has been working about the home
all summer, doing light worn In the
gym. and says he is in better shape
now than he lias been at this time of
the year in several seasons.
D ETROIT, Sept. 6.—Seventeen of
the 37 players the Tigers have
on their roster are pitchers For
years the Detroit club has been weak
as to its pitching staff, anu President
Navin and Manager Jennings have
made up their minds that pitchers they
must have.
But pitchers are very, very hard to
get an if get good.
Napoleon I>ajoie turned baseball
philosopher the other day and dis
cussed some of the difficulties of a
baseball magnate with a Detroit
sport writer. Nap has never been a
baseball magnate, but from his long
experience as manager and player, he
knows whereof he speaks just the
same.
“Lots of people thought Barney
Dreyfus was orasy when he paid $22.-
500 for Marty O’Toole recently,” re
marked Lajoie. “I don’t know wheth
er Barney paid that much In cash or
not, but if Marty comes through for
Pittsburg it was money well spent. If
I were a club owner and had a pitcher
offered me that I absolutely knew
would be a star in the big league. I
don't think J would hesitate at pay
ing $50,000. It would be money well
spent, but I doubt if many club own
ers will agree with me.
Got Joss for Nothing.
"But they spend the money Ju*t the
same in the effort, without getting
the star pitcher. When I came to
Cleveland Somers and Kilfoyle had
Aduie Joss. He had cost them noth
ing and he proved to be one of the
best pitchers and ball players tho
game ever knew. But after they got
Joss they invested a good deal more
than $60,000 in pitchers, without get
ting another man equal to Joss, until
Gregg was bought. See my argument?
The average club owner will think
nothing of paying anywhere from
$2,000 to $5,000 apiece for pitching
recruits whom he hopes will make
good. Nine times out of ten the
money is thrown away, while the
tenth time he may get only n fair
pitcher. My contention is that if the
opportunity is presented, a club own
er should not hesitate about paying
the price for a star. He’ll not only
save money by not having to buy so
many second-raters, but he will also
make it up at the gate.
“Go back through your memory. In
ten years Cleveland has had two real
star pitchers—J<»hs and Gregg. Chi
cago has had Ed Walsh, and Walsh
has been the one man to keep the
White Sox out of the cellar. St. Louis
has not had any. New’ York had
Cljhsbro and later on Russell Ford.
Plflladelphia had Waddell, Plank,
Bender and Coombs. Washington has
had only one—Walter Johnson, while
Joe Wood is the only one developed
by Boston. Cy Young and Bill Dlneen
were stars at Boston, but they were
stars before they Joined our league.
“I agree with Addle Joss w hen he
said that pitching was the biggest
part of the game. If I had had Vean
Gregg to work along*w ith Addle back
in 1908, we would have played the
Cubs for the world’s pennant, but one
star pitcher rarely wins a pennant,
especially if that star is a man who
needs at lejist three days in between
his games
Scarcity of Stars.
“Yes, sir, star pitchers are mighty
scarce. You can go out and get the
outfielders who can throw, bat and
run bases; you can get the infielders
who can field with a lot of speed and
hit fairly well, but you have got to
go some to dig up two great pitchers
in two or three seasons, to say noth
ing of in one year. No use talking,
but Philadelphia was lucky when it
grabbed Alexander and Chalmers thi-
sa me season and got them cheap, at
that.
“You say* the club owning the star
pitchers would not sell. Perhaps not,
but if some of the magnates were to
lump together the money they throw
awuy in buying pitchers promiscuous
ly and were to offer It for one star
pitcher, the magnate owning that
pitcher would do a lot of thinking be
fore he turned down the offer.”
No Chance of Austin
BeingTraded-Hedges
ST LO! IS, Sept. 6.—“There’s abso
lutely no chance of Jimmy Austin be
ing traded." declared Owner Hedges of
the Browns yesterday. This statement
was provoked by the report that Austin
would be sent to Buffalo in a deal for
Frankie Truesdale and a pitcher.
The Browns did have a deal on for
Truesdale, hut negotiations fell through
when Bill I’lymcr demanded one of the
Browns’ best pitchers.
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LA PORTE, IND., Sept. 6 —George
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