Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-28 | Page 22 | Federal Magnates Are Brainy Group

FEDERAL MAGNATES " ARE Bill GROUPj I i Know Baseball and Have 1 Millions With Which to ! Apply That Knowledge. ! By W. S. FAHN3WORTH. ; By Iiitornatlonnl News F:T'cr. Hl'FFALO, X. Y., l ob. 27. Womlcr-ing Womlcr-ing why Buffalo was chosen for ii bir ir?nii(! basobfill meeting an ckfptieMl rrgiirding tho merits of tho reileral 's claim to major rauking in tho national , game, anyway, I mado discov;riea yes-1 torday and today that aro not at all in keeping with the reports heard whero : orp.tnized bnsoball dominatcH. Tho j hihe:it tvpns of bubiness men und solid 1 citi.t-ns that I ever faw i' a bnn-bali i moetiMf; of miv sort nro ntL"iul in to the affairs of tho l-Vderal lenine, and, v.Uilu in fotnn ppefific individual ni-tfuic-fl (). P,. mav maMi the. rank and1 filo of tho I'ederahs as a bodv. tho in-dnpendMiit in-dnpendMiit JoaiTuevs eotild not be erpialrd anywhere outriido tlio tronkrholds nt' our nioft respfli'ted national JimireM in fi-iDnnrrj fi-iDnnrrj und busiivn aeliifvement. I Tt nam no unjiko anv meeting I ever 'attended that the shock uf finding base-hull base-hull mnenalen v.ho r:i - di-eft ai.f-w.-rn tu qu-Ties :nd ooiidm'led all their bn.si-,11"- nny from I ho bote) bar i likely 1 to be perma nen t . B:ttc at Turnstiles. Iu announeiDtf an early opening fnr t.liH ) odonil league season, rreMdenr1 ti i linorrj j."'tn fi 1 nM r dnyn ' start, on t lie i older rivals' lc:i;,'tieM. And if th Fed-i' Fed-i' nil league plnvi-r: ha v even a pn- ' KPHt.inn f tho kind of Mibtantial earn-f:-tn-, -.hmvn bv the innj-nat i-h hern to--liiv, the -ilart oil April IU will jivn the i ii'ltpr nd'-n I h an c ! i;" in th ''nnt i n na ti.,n of tho pri'Mcut war. Thn battle I ;, t i l.ti tnm til.- is likely to be fmwht vii'i a ItIIit iiid'-is!an.iTi'r nf the I't-d-fral n inin, runln t inn s and ! lia 1 n lnl-I lnl-I ii v to isnpjd v the i ir ma iid I er i" lea n I v I a KriMsi vc bael in II t.lia n was thn ia ie i 1:im vcar. V.Ihmi t hn mi ralb'd ' mi i !;l v ' ' V, fro buried under a Menu of n!ni;,n Unit was left almost unanswered by the men who are firm for the Federals in the finish light, Ciotting my information of the financial finan-cial standing of tho backers of the Federals from Bouroes outride of baseball, base-ball, I turned my inspection of tho Federals Fed-erals to the personal pide todav and tound that Kobert, B. Vnrd of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, Charles Woephman of ('liieago, the interests represented bv Put Powers and various others reputed to be worth millians and prepared to spend them in the war, were fans of the bleacher type, ready tt) talk baseball without a mention, men-tion, of money. s Are Iiaseball Fang. Getting indisputable evidence, of the fart that tho fiuaucial powers of the Federal league are regular fellows with the highest, ftamiardu of sportsmanship and business decency, .1 sought substantiation substan-tiation of the cki'm that the Federals lacked men of practical base hail experience. expe-rience. The first man I saw was Joo Tinker, whom Polo grounders long ago stamped as one of the brainiest Iiaseball Iiase-ball players that ever broke up games there. Sonie experience there! William TI. Watkins, manager of tho Indianapolis club, a man tho late John T. Prush deemed a gen ins in baseball lore and practical application of it, was the next Federal leaguer I met. Hc-fove Hc-fove I hail reached Aed Hanlon, who is generally accredited with being one of the shrew dest, men ever de eloped in ba.eh;tl). the rosier of Feder;.l leaguers who were always rated as wizards in tho work i ns of orga nir.od baseball bad grown to such proportions that I wondered how the story of the Federals lacking men of baseball brains ever got into c i re u 1 a t i o n . .'nun's A . Gi hnore was asked tonight w h e t h e r tho agitation for thn placing of a. Fedetal league club in . ew "b. ork. preferably the Indianapolis pennant winners, u ith the sem-a t ional 1 lenii y Kauff as a drav. ing rai d, meant that New York would have ;v Federal league club this season, but he mado no premise prem-ise or threats for V.",1."J. "There 's nothing pOMtie about this fieason, but we will surely be in there iu I'.'J'V' he declared.