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i 1 a ■) ' \ ■, < •, ■*a 1 * i'§> * t mV \ \ Latest Baseball News and Gossip of All the League: 1 LITTLE ACM The Job Was Too Humiliating for Mutt • • • • 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 HeWLO fAUYT, tuNftr AR.£ you up WHY THE SUIT V HA*. THAT'S ON6 r Puv OVER. ON YOU- iVe tor a job as A N\AW_ AAAN AND 1T'N\ ON No-, VjUAY Tc I , ^VT OPFlCt NOW To v - . (tcv .... SOMfc UJOft*c! UlRlY IMk NkYse lf LtT'reB-'i rrs> gonna cost Me anO herd's sorAtE 'VnoR.^. AlV Go To MAN 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 Q 0 ’Good Pitchers O 0 0 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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