Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-14
HARDIN STAYSl
IN OUR CAMP
President Sexton Decides Con-
:. test for Pitcher in Favor
of Rock Island.
KINsELLA JUST GUESSING
Local Association, on Other Hand,
Able to Furnish Proof of Regu-
larity of Each Step.

President NJ H. Sexton today made
public a letter he has mailed to Pres
ident Kinsella of the Springfield club
in which he decided the contest in
augurated by the latter i'm favor nf
Rock Island Kinsella has the privi-
|lege of appealing to the national board
,of which Mr. Sexton is president, il
he cares to take the trouble.
In his letter Mr.. Sexton says:
your contention that Hardin was
sent home or left the Rock Island
club during the season of 1907 witho 1T
any compensation for services re,i-
dered' is correct. The claim that he
was not reserved by the Rock Island
| club in the fall of 1907, nor rendered
a contract by said club in the spring
of 1907 is not true. Neither is it true
! that said club failed to reserve this.
player in the fall of 1908, thereby max
| ing it possible for your contract VI
| November. 1908, to take priority over
their claim to his services for the 1899
season
Evidence Submitted.
''The Rock Island ball club claims
, title to player Hardin dating from the
signing of the original contract OH
October 30, 1906, up to the present
time, and in substantiation of said
claim submits documentary evidence
and reports of former club officials as
follows"
| Then follows an enumeration of the
letters and contracts submitted by the
Rock Island team and the records CT
the national board proving the various
steps in keeping title to Hardin were
properly taken.
In conclusion the letter says: "Yoar
intimation that Hardin's name was
added to the 1908 reserve list as an
afterthought, and because It was
tlearned that he had signed Spring
field contract is not justified or borne
out by the facts. This players name
appears last on the reserve lists Of
1907 and 1908 because he was reserved
as a suspended player. All such play
ers. appearing on the yearly reserve
lists after the names of regularly re-
served players
Hardin Glad. Too.
George Hardin expressed himself
today as well satisfied with the de-
cision of President Sexton in award
ing him to the Rock Island club and
he states that had it been otherwise
he would have returned to independ-
ent baseball before he would have
played under kinsella's guidance.
George says he is well satisfied with
the treatment given him in this city.
by the manager and directors, and
he believes his interests are being
looked after as well or better than
they would be elsewhere.
During the recent stay of the
team in Springfield Kinsella took
occasion to approach George and at
e tempted to sound him on the posi-
< bility of playing with Springfield.
George was at the gate in the Spring
E field park taking tickets when Kin
+ sella walked up to him and asked
him how he would like to play with
Springfield He then told Hardin
that he considered the matter almost
as good as settled and that Spring
field would soon be able to use him.
He told George too, that he would
receive the same money from Spring
y field that Rock Island was paying
him and that he would be treated
H.. just as well. George made but one
answer to all the questions and
statements feeling that KinseIla had
no right to discuss the matter with
him. After leaving Hardin from whom
he could get no satisfaction. Kinsella
e approached another Rock Island
!, player and remarked that Rock Is.
o land would soon lose the services oil
Hardin. To a man at this distance
Kinsella's tactics have much the ap
h pearance of tampering, which in
e baseball is not only reprehensibls
y but violation of agreement.
y Protested Gnme Ours.
20 TT is my Judgment that your case
:, is based on surmise only, and is en-
- tirely unsupported by facts, while tn,
y claim of the Rock Island club is sub
:, stantiated by evidence which proves
y title without cloud or flaw. 1t is there
= fore decreed that the title to Pitche
- Hardin is vested in the Rock Islam,
=. baseball club Your protest of thu
~ game of June 10 on the grounds tina
~ he was ineligible to pitch for Rocl
- Island is disallowed.''
re Tonight.
lie IL YOU would enjoy tomorrow. TAX