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^TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1915Connell of the Hfeh- Was Not Equal to ' Champions Cake From TheraS’S BALK TIGERSnVietorr in the Inning— Athletics enators Play a Give ike Doublet■cLiUO Pratt T*lecnnl k. May 26.—Bcdleot of the hamplosa woo a pitcher’s i McConnell Unlay and -New 3 «o 3. Only 25 men faced 'ter the rust Inning, rk made its only ruu iu the K-irbeo HartieH hit an in-o. stole second and scoredsingle.r ..bCf .. . «f lb .. I ...AB R . 1 0 . «. 4. 4 . 3 . 4 . 4. 31 P 0 1 1 02 4 0 2 1 0 2 11 1 2 1 7 0 132 3 AB R . 4 0 . 2 0b .... o .. S3 ..e. 5b 1, o .7 27 13 H P A 0 0 0 0 1 0 110 1 2 4 1 1 00 130 31 4 0 2 0 030 1 1 t7 17 4iv Innings:090 200 001—3It........ 100 000 000—1I errors. New York 1; Bos-ro base hits Corrigan. Three , Engle. Stolen base. Hurt-». Speaker. Henriksen 2: ' Double piny. Derrick and ise 00 bails, orf tledient 1: jnell 1. Struck out by Mc-£ Bedient S. Umpires. Egan.OUIS 4; DETROIT 3.1 WtisapfitMSraisin .TfljlRCH PITCHERS;;PAThat is What Horace Fogcl Would Have the Nation believe and is Reason for Investigation for TrustTHE REAL POSITIONF. C. Lane Gives the Real Conditions Existing and Shows the Need of Control and ContractsIu the June issue of tbe Baseball Magazine appears a story b- F. C. Lane on Horace FOgel, the man who Is trying to wreck baseball. During past few weeks there have beenthenurai.ruus urguiucats iu Waterloo in regard to IQe baseball situation and the bolding of players to the extern that tho National Baseball Commission does. Many of tho ians of Waterloo are of the opinion that ball players should be compared In many wars to tho slavery proposition of athletes of the country ere straining the curly sixties.the games hading prilia end his Mr. lane is regarded as one of story was exctlitionallr Interesting from start to finish dealing as it did on the most talked of baseball circumstances in years. Although It is not generally known Horace Fogel. on* Ume manager, baseball writer and former booster of the gamp, is tbe rftha at the back of tbe baseball trust Investigation. Treated on tbe slt;l«arc at all times by the higher officials of the major leagues and oae time manager in the National himself, he is now trying to lower the the standards of too game. HIS undertaking is probably without avail ror men on the Insldo of the game state that there is ao single living man who can wreck what it Iran taken $0 long to hnlld.Why Slavery.TheMb' -6.—St. Louis won ting victory today, whim Aluisal. sent a rel-,5',*h that scored Austin. The re Tull. Detroit had tied the fts iwfrof tbe ninth by four lat ‘scored 2 men. St. Louis of-its'four runs oa homers l and Johnston—Dv Innings: R H E100 000 002—3 7 1 ..r 000 110 011—1 6 1 Hlawiltet. Dauss nnd Sinn-ilman tuid Alexander.ELPHIA 4-2:WASHINGTON0-«.Iphia May. 26.—The Amerl-Uers indulged in their firstfollowing Is tart .-o' the item that appeared in the last Issue of (he Baseball magazine:U hvseball players'are slaves, why !R it that thousands upon thousands of young players from among the picked every uerre each season to enter voluntarily such bonds pf servitude? It is a peculiar spectacle, this widespread renunciation of freedom, to become baseball slave*. The receut Cobb controversy. wherein Sen. Hoke Smith championed Cobb nod led the cry Of slavery, was an example. The very, ridiculousness of such a charge should deter these eminent men. from such a statement. Cobb would receive a salary considerably in excess of $10.1)00: he wanted fifteen, and held out for the latter sum as he had a perfect right to do. President Narin. having experienced raaoy reverses of fortune. failed to see how he could afford to pay so much, and refused, as ha ukio had a porieCt right to do. ' Tho Question was one of mere dilierence of opinion as to salary. Cobb thought he was worth fifteen thousand dollars. wherein «c agree with him. President Navia thought he could cot afford to pay that sum of money with a club as badly shattered as theChristy Mathewzon (top) and Eddie Plank.Christy Mathewsun of the New York Giants and Eddie Plank of the'Philadelphia Athletics arc the pahvUdi pitchers of tho national pan' time, but they stand out todaytime, - __- . .among the best in their profession, and It’s the fourteenth major league Season for each. Plant's greatest year was 1S0B. when be led tho American league., Matty’s beat year was 1905, when he won thirty-OM and.lost.Dihc tames.---------■was bound by Ms contract. If it be shivery to b« bound by a contract, especially when such contract Is rendered necessary to the very existence of baseball, we cannot sec it. The reserve rule has enabled baseball to grow to a magnitude where it can afford to pay Cobb a large salary, where it can bestow upon lilm a reputation greater than that of the President of the United States. d A rule which ba» given Cobb so much, should not. be condemned simply beaare it is not inexhaustible 1n the benefits it may confer. At the moment where tt begins so work some alight hardship on Cobb that is no excuse fOr isnoring.lts much more conspicuous benefits. Baseball has been good to Ty Cobb. Jt has been good to the average player. Nor do these individual realty wish the reserve rule to be abolished. They realize that they owe thetr own livhi* to its workings, and whilo they sometimes chafe under its necessary restrictions, which Is but hu-. .— .11 ..t\d\ nivf utlark-* Ihr
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Waterloo Times Tribune
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, May 27, 1913
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