Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-04

with the Elgin (Ill.) clnb which fact |
ne announces TO me under date Of |
Elgin, June D, but at the same time |
complaining OF being dissatisfied with |
the situation and asking me To Let
him know Mt once how matters with
the organization Of the Dallas club |
was progressing, particularly as TO the
arranging of dates for games with !
Shreveport.
Inresponse wrote him, and few
days later l telegraphed him to leave
Elgin at once and come To Dallas,
which brought forth the following
letters:
hrl ELGrN, Ill. June q, lssL
DEAR FRIENp Mac Yonr letter of the 10th
and Telegram reached me To da,
! regret tho your letter d not reach me
two DAYS earlier, ~ have had seve. nj tele-
grams from I'd Mutually at shreveport. who
telegraphed me last friday, making ne an
onsr % 80 per month 70 9 'me down there
would try and he there on the 10Th, ~ they
are looking for ma ON that date. f.fU -
! a,d hot want TO go to ireyeport, but not
mere until you got started up. 8g
Now, Mac, with net agree TO play with
them until hear fr I'M you, and with look
Tor letter from you as soon as / get there.
will have 70 play In SUNDAYS game, per
haps, but will, as said before, not make
they do much better ,han SIS per month, I
would, you Know, much sooner play In /
your nine for s75 than Any other In Texas
aiowed to play ball believe s io cam aa do S muss
We'll, Mac am mixed up so by your tele.
But ] will have to show up IN shreveport OF;
| Sunday. II can possibly get away
rom no. here Be s sSe TIM !. ' ali sSeaid
vim telegraph you By rharsdsyy. or NOT later
than Friday, and will try to get out OF the
will have to remain here until Thursday
before get paid OF. wednesday we play
| the Chicago Times nine. the "Frankli0's,"
| here. faf M
should go TO Shreveport can easily get
out OF the engagement ny asking for quail
auiee tor four montus wages from some solid
| man OF the town, which Is something don't
| think they Will give me. But as / have
signed no contract, of course they will have
20 II You think can do as well in Dallas
write me TO shreveport and win come over
after sundays gare. Remember, 4 ] can't
thursday. II
We have won three more games since last
| writing from the slumets, 3to2; Aurora's,
TO and Napersviile ii TO |. Am getting
there every game In great shape. The III
gin's are book ed TO play in Rock Is aud on
that was gong to leave, hill would be pop
ping in this camp. The club Is not properly
| managed or II would be a financial success.
| which IL IL not at present. IL can't last more
than another month the way ,hings are rum
ming At present.
Hoping 10 hear from you the first thing at
Shreveport rem ain with kind regard.
Yours respectfully, ,GEo. W. CRAWFORD.
did as requested and wrote Craw-
ford at Shreveport, but as he never
showed up there of course the letter h
still awaiting him, or has been sent to
this dead-letter office. arranged his
salary all right At the figures he named
and told him to let me know how
much money he wanted to cover his
expenses from Elgin to Dallas, and
that l would forward 1t to him al
Shreveport.
In day or two later, guided by tn,
wording of his last letter in regard t
telegraphing me, became satisfied h,
had not started for Shreveport, SO tele
gIaphed him at Elgin the substance o
what had written him at Shreveport
but | never received an answer from
, him. Anyone properly interested
however. can see the original Telegram
at the Western Union Office in Dallas
: The following letter l receive'
! July i:
: ELGIN, ILL.,, July "a, 1884.
/ DEAR MAc--I dropped you afcw mes th
!, other day mentioning why | could not a
I that l might go down to shreveport ne,
! week. but that little programme WI
knocked in the head yesterday y, also no.
behind ss poor as ssaas S az The ss gam"
, quencs did mot get my money. Wed nssas
MS expected, they promising 70 pay in III
sesterdsy. which promise would have bee
, fulfilled mad Manager Cushman OF the NJ u
!, kegon club not shown up here yesterda!
d He came up here yest. rday morning oeioi
We CLARK, my catcher ana n z got down qo low
!. which some OF the directors heard OF, an
y hunting him up they wanted to know whs
he waned He not h snoS snS 'neS ,S we're Se1
Muskegon nine. On learning this the
: came up 10 the houle and told me that the
" would not pay us unless we signed agfe
ments 10 remain Mt least one month lopge
J when they would pay US up In null and lei
Z As have said before, ! have got oil the e
"a perience | want In Int Northwest leagn
y and $3.50 per mouth would not gel me IN
e Northwest league club again. Cushman
/. fered me Al to play IN Muskegon, Tut 10
y him could not get away ., :,
}, away W te haw tns middle or latter p
Ie OF July. IL You can arrange thin'
"a for me down your way for Ia q
= TO get the position for me in the office. as
), intend, should get employment. To RENAL
n. in Dallas all winter.
9. will write to Mutually and tell him car
Al get away and no, e. he will get some o'h
as par 10 nj the bill,
= We play the FraDklins, a semi-profefsloD
.; club from Chicago, to-day, and tomorrow 7
ID Forest lityR OF Rock ford ana on the nrkt a.
H. second the Rock Islands. II get thro gh
-, days game within ut getting my eye knock
y out will consider myself lucky.
as leo an account ot the M. Z. ana Blu
MT game IN the sporting Journal. Mig SEQ
,a wasn't 1t? III you can get ii te Cot and
NO good catcher we ought Ia be able 10 get aw
III with the state, easy enough.
or The above statement, with Mr.. Ora
In ford's positive and continued promis
IN to play with the Dallas club. ought
IL convince any fair-minded man that
II Dallas club is entitled TO his servic'
IT. The only documents the Fort Wor
ng club can show where he commits hi
self to play with them Is telegrs
me from Elgin on July 3 weeks and wee
en- after he had committed himself TO pl
We with the Dallas club, and after q sala
GU and all details had been agreed upo
and q bogus aud illegal contract ayr
of ment entered iutO between himself "a
81. Geo. A. Fowle, the shameless and U
nd pr.ncipled mansger Of the Fort Wor
club. term 1t q bogus and lilies
10. contract agreement, ana tpe
;i,l thus severely of Fowle, for th'
,m reasons:
iii The Texas league adopted the rul
and regulations OF the national ieag
IN for its government: ! have Inc !