The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-11
BALTIMORE NOT WORRIED
ManagementOf the Orioles Discred-
its The Baseball Reports.
Claimed Tint the RumOrs Are CircU-
lated to Force Some Players to
Sign With the National League.
Players Already Getting Into Form

BALTIMORE. Md. March 1.-THE
management of the Baltimore Baseball
Club Is not at all excited about rumOrs
which they claim are being sent out by
the National League managers. Reports
are current that some Of the star Ma
tional League players who have signed to
play with the American League clubs
did so with the intention Of forcing the
National League to terms and jumping
back again to the National when they got
their price.
Capt Wnbert Robinson. of the BaIti-
more Club, says: This is simply a bug
aboo which is used to cause those who
are holding back to sign with the Ma
tional League clubs. Ban B. johnson,
| President Of the American League, got 4
good start on the autocratic body. which
I believed the world was a baseball dIa-
mond around which they had built their
fence
They slept a little late and woke up
to find conditions changed. one Of Presi-
dent Johnson's first and most forcible
pieces Of advice to the managers OF the
clubs III his League was to negotiate with
no player who had signed with any club.
( Then he advised that the club mana gers
in his league find the players they want
ed and they were not TO be chary in
paying out advance money If, said he
a club will not pay advance money it
looks bad for the club and destroys the
/ confidence of the players
! This advice was taken. and the re
! suits are that nearly every player who
/ played on 4 National League club last
year and has concluded to play on an
! American League club his year has been
/ paid advance money and has signed an
American League contract. The new or
/ ganization does not fear any backsliding
| OF its members who We're formerly Ma
/ tional League players. nor are its own
ers at all worried about any legal COM
/ pIications such as the National League
/ threatens. Both the American and Ma
( tional League managers have had legal
/ advice"
Manager Edward Hanlon, of the Brook
: Iyn Club. says he believes that the con-
: tracts the players signed with his club
( last year are binding. He SAYS that he
/ With q pen inserted words in the Brook
( Iyn contracts, making them Of but three
( years duration, but adds that there are
/ too many words IN the original contract
I He has been told THAI il would nauSeate
! q judge TO read II.
Mr. HauIon has been advised that his
/ contract viii hold the players whom he
/ signed last year. despite its SupertuOus
{ wording 1t contains nineteen sections.
and was doubtless the accumulated work
: OF the cars Of baseball during the last
/ thirty years. The contracts Of the
/ American League are net one-haH SO
/ long
/ While the American League managers
I anticipate an enormous amount Of legal
] barking from the National League own
/ ers when the season opens, they do not
/ look TO be bitten. but rather expect to see
! the National League people lighting
/ among themselves
Captain Robinson says the OTiOle play
ers now here are on their mettle. Man
/ aSer John j. McGraw will return from
( Bot Springs probably late this week, and
. the men who are working in Johns Hop
/ kins cage daily want TO be in form 10
! keep pace with the manager when he
/ appears with the Cherokee Indian player
/ Grant
The men who are working in the cage
are Robinson, Howell. BrCdie, Nops. and
FOutZ, Of the Orioles. Kelley. of Brook
lyn: Casey, of Detroit McGinn. a pitch
er Of the Boston American League Club,
and George ". Brooks. a pitcher from
NeTiden, Conn. who was drafted for the
Boston National League Club, but was
/ signed TO play on The Boston American
League Club by Capt Wilbcrt Robinson,
/ Of the BaltimGre Club Some local play
ers are also in the crowd.
Sheckard is expected TO join them this
week.