The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-15
FACTS ABOUT AMOSRUSIE
FORTY-PAGE PAMPHLET ISSUED BY
THE BIG HOOSIER PITCHER.
Gives All the Correspondence and AZ
the New York Baseball Club.

~ pamphlet of forty pages has just been
isused by Amos Rusie. which gives the full
correspondence and facts relative TO his
dispute with the New York ball club. Ii
sets forth all the letters which have passed
between Messrs. hawkins & Smith. his at
torneys, and n. +. Young, president of the
National League One matter of considera-
BILE importance in the case, and a thing
which has not been known before. is con-
tanned in an affidavit by Rusie's father. His
father has always made his contracts for
him. and he was always considered when
business arrangements we've being made.
June e, 1895, Rusie was fined sl00 I'm Balti-
more on the charge of being drunk. In his
own affidavit Rusie says that he was told
on the evening of that day, after having
pitched a good game of ball. that he was
fined 800 for being out all night and drunk
the night before. He told Freedman at the
time that he had not been out of the hotel
the night before. but Freedman said he had
the word of the chambermaid and porter
at the hotel that Rusie had not been in his
room. Rusie asked to be taken TO the por-
ter and chambermaid and see if they would
assert this charge in his presence. but
Freedman refused this. saying the fine
would stand.
III Is on THIS point mat the dnnudNlt OF
Rusie's father throws some new light. Mr..
Rusie states that on July II. 1895. he re-
ceived a telegram from Andrew Freedman
asking that he meet the baseball man at
the Bates House the next day. Mr.. Rusie
kept the appointment, and was told by
Freedman that he wanted him TO tell Amos
that the fine Of 800 at Baltimore did not
stand; that it was inflicted merely to dis
cipline Rusie, and was not intended TO be
charged against him. The New York club
was then playing in Cincinnati, and, as
Mr.. Rusie was going there the next day.
he was asked TO make that statement to
Amos. he did so, and ii was supposed
then that the matter was closed.
In regard to the other fine OF 500, which
was in1licted on the last day of the season,
Amos Rusie, in his afidavit submitted 10
Young. says he knew nothing of il until
he received a check for the last of his
salary of $4,000, the last check being for
$l45, leaving a balance of $500 still due. The
letter accompanying the check explained
that there had been a fine of 800 assessed
against Rusie on the last day of the sea-
son. Rusie says in his affidavit that on
that day he was playing against Baltimore
in New York and that at the end of the
fourth inning he received word that Freed
(Rusie) did not play better bail IL would
cost him money. lie says he continued to
play the game the best he could and that
nothing was said TO him by anyone about
a fine. He received no communication from
anyone in authority in regard TO a fine
and had no reason to think he had been
fined. the first intimation of it being when
he received a check for the balance due
him.
The papers show that Rusie received ST.
500 for his work last year on a $1,000 con-
that he would be expected TO sign a con-
tract at s., 400 a year.