The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-10
QUEER DOING
 OF FAR1 ELI. Some Strange Baseball Deals. HELM HAS \ GOOD KICK Is Seeking Pay for Nine Days
 Work. zazHs Fina Bought Hin Frsn sssksss. Vile Aaa Afssr werki.s Hs~ Nine Dsys Rssuses rs Hs.A
 over Any saissy.

while Secretary Farrell has doua some valuable wofk for the Nsttonal Association stiil the methods of that ssnsisman. at times have the hsathsn Chinese beat several city biocxs. when s.cass s.ssssd up against ways that are--wsll
 The Montgomery ball club has hsd some memorial expsrisnces alon9 fnis si@n.d ins sGns xis~y yss:rs s.r .so John noclsshY player after Ss S sad wosnsa SissH lEs in sss tss Monteemery outfteld during all of ths spring exhibition games The case had gone up to secrstary Farrell for ad- Kns ~a tSs inc ssoDsssS es ssS 2; Sss:d ss. .s ss gomery club. Just before. the season opened q telegram from Farrell cafns 70 the Montgomery Club. sAyinw that |py lot Of other corrssponds dsnos is his desk showed that diiks had ciossd with khg an hour or 70 before sfha den.Eomrrssy no rs tsiexram reached that cisien and King had to report fo Shreveport Rather queer that tsis- gram Of one hours differsncsf
 New come down. little closer. IAet pitchers Tor the East vsrpeoi Sas clab ss 'es os the 0hto ana Psnnsylvania League. Biil Phillips being manager of that club. The season In that league was
 s ss sSs s n pHs psyssss Dss .s s
 made out to expire on the seventh ox September. About the seventh Of August, the Q; and P. people threw the ins paid up to the cen end T of tAs she e's season. on
 when the case went to Secretary Farrell. he dectisd. that the players in that league wsrs free 70 do bnsiness. up u to the end Of s the sssson @ s as tSsir sir contract called for. This being the ease. Molly signsd up for 1908 with Mclesworth of Birmingham and had
 1spsnssa wsn sns Psysd aSa ssssss Fhniips, Now Vow PPhiiiipss Rad left iifs s shs East Liverpool club and taken charge f1ass.. If Noiiy's contract S held sccd at all. it was with the Ohio and Penn- syivania League and not with an fu- dividsal Biii Phillips had gone from ns hssss. Asa Sna yet Farrsi if dssiasl ss ssss Molly belonged to phiiiips and the whssiing club. Looks rather rancid tnas ens r c u.,
 Nov here is one that kinder 3ars day Of last August. Mike Finn of ths
 Ss osf asssonvis sss RSssss us Soss of Fss ssa South Atlantic League. Helm pitched good many games for the Finnites. On the 2sth of August he beat thB Climbers in Little Rock by score of
 when the Western teams started that last Eastern trip, Helm was put in for the first game of the Laber Day ssosSsaa Sorss fSsnas being iP for tic rim bere. rnonhas winning by score of 2
 Tha. nirhs Finn ,sse!asa tho. hs ale sitter working him, nine days turned the sEoO though that Finn had promised
 S pay for s.sSsa s ana ss., the S1 snss Fps n n s the Jackscnviiie club the sum Of 6ao hones--and the Qfecian warrior went poses in the strong box of MT ifui-
 Now comes the weird part or this story--Farreil decided that az Mr. Finn Ssoo 1s shs fptchsr wss na' hs I' propsssy @ and not the property of the Jacksorviiie Jim Fox of the columnus club in the Tinn sinsn ,soc ani for the pitskss and thsrefors putting Finn even for the $500 that he had coughed up to 'Muiianey, Then Helm put in ciaifn for nine days pay fused to pay---Tsoss carried the mAtter to Farrell and it is still pending. Farrell decides against him. Ross says National Commission and fighting it to the end. Now the point Is just this: if Helm was the property of the LAttie Rock club (as for FarreiFs decision; for him from Jim Foxl why in the name of all that is just. should Finn not pay Helm for the nine days that he worked for the Little Rock elvhf
 The final result of this case Will DC dAcfiediY inferestinG Co watch.