The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-31
APPLICATION Is GRANTED BY
COMMISSION uNEtEa SOME
CONDITIONS.
MUST PAY ALL FINES
Live up to Old Contract With
Cubs, Especially with Ref
erence to Salsry-The
Findings

Baseball Commi sion today handed
down it final decision in the Gaze OF
Catcher John King, of the Chicago
National League team. TIE decislon
/ Ii signed hy Lynch and Hermann.
4 Johnson viii not make a miEofity re-
port. The decision follows in part;
! The attention OF the Commission
wa called to this ca by the play
er himself, John @. King. In rep'y
| to an inquiry to the National Gem
! mission Under date OF January 20,
1919, relative to his standing in or
/ ganized base ball, he was informed
that he was an ineligible player, and
! thereupon on February 3,19l0. he APP
piled to the Commits ion for rein
statement, stating in his application
among other things that he had mot
knowingly violated any of the rules
Of organized base ball.
! This case has been given 50 much
attention by the pre- and the base
bah pILlic in general that the Com
mission in passing thereon, deems
advisable to go into all of the details
/ in connection Herewith.
We have given this players apnli-
| cation for Reinstatement our most
serious consideration; we have gone
over the testimony in the most care.
ful manner: we have taken into con
sideration all of the circumstances
in connection herewith and We now
recommend that the players apnlica-
ton for reinstatement be granted
upon the following conditions:
list, The player will be re1uired
Ito return to the Chicago Nationa
oague Cub and fully carry out tht
contract that he had previously en-
tered into with that club and nartic
ularly with reference to the salary
tipulated in that contract
3D. The Chicago Club win not b.
permitted for period Of at leas
! one season to either trade. sell ol
ralea.e this player to any other clul
Operating under the National Agree
Iment.
3rd The player will be required
to pay a fine Of $2O0o0 for his action
/, with reference to his connection viii
! the Missouri Athletic club, and par
, ticularly In permitting an ineligible
player Frazer) to participate in
games with that club.
4 Ath The player win also he ne
I quired to pay a fine of 5000 f3r his
violation Of Rule AZ of the Nationa
(, Commission, and $500 additional fol
his violation of that rule in open de
fiance Of notice from the Commits
ion not to do so.
5th That neither the Chicago
club nor any other club or person
connected with organized base bal
will be permitted, either directly on
indirectly, TO reimburse the player
for the fines inflicted In this finding
anl a violation Of this condition will
be followed by most severe penalty
against the offending party.
9Th The player win be required
TO pay the fines herein inflicted tC
the secretary of the National Com
mission before he becomes eligible t'
participate in any games in organ
ized base ball.
In this case the Chicago club hai
J admitted that it has teYdered thu
J player q new contract. This wa
done in violation OF Rule AZ herein re
farred to, that i to say after th'
:, player had made himself ineligible OF
: account OF his actions in playing il
Chicago last fall. The Chicago clul
, will, therefore, be required to snow
: cause why tley should not be finet
for their action in this respect, fo
the violation of this rule
We recommend that copy of thi!
finding Le tran mitted to the 9resi
+ lent Of each National League club
) TO the Fre.id Of each American
/, League club. and to the secretary o
the National Association, for promu'
CATION.
Ell r. r. LYNCH