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Show FEDERALS MUST HAVE LOT OF COIN Detroit, Aug. 23 The report that the Federal league would take on a larger growth for 1914 and expand over considerable territory, taking .u several eastern cities, has caused 6ome of the major league managers to Indulge in conversation "In order to establish a circuit that can live, the Federal league promoters must have at least $5,000,000," declares de-clares Hugh Jennings, ot the Detroit Tigers. "There is no demand for this or ganlzatiou, for the baseball public Is plentifully supplied with amusement by the two major leagues The costly cost-ly atadlum in the various cities af ford such accommodations that tho public will not patronize cheaper plants "The players under contract to the National and American leagues are receiving big salaries In order to entice some of them to jump the Federal league would be compelled to put up Increased salaries in cold cash and guarantee pay for more than one or two years "The Federal league this year 13 run on a cheap basis. The best players play-ers receive $200 a month That Is why the outlaw promoters haven't been driven to the wall "When the American league brok? Into organized baseball conditions were much different from those .it present The National league had abandoned several good cities and thi.-club thi.-club owners had become unpopular with the public and the players. "There was room for a second major ma-jor league circuit, and Ban Johnspn took advantage of it. Johnson ana his backers had real money, and the rest was easy." |