Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-18
NEW CONTRACTS TO
GO OUT TOMORROW
President Noyes Expects No
Difficulty in Signing Play
ers for Coming Season.

base ball club arrived home late yester-
day afternoon from his trip TO Cuba.
The trip on the steamer north was some
thing fierce, as the big snowstorm over
took the boat Just outside Sandy Hook
and 1t was slow work getting up to the
dock The trip did the base ball mag
nate lots of good, and he Immediately
waded into the accumulated mail on
his desk, a majority of the letters being
from American League headquarters
Waivers. releases. new contracts and
business of a private nature made up the
mail and il will be several days before
Mr. Noyes catches up with routine bust
ness.
BEFORE going to Cuba said Mr. Noyes.
president johnson mailed request to
all the magnates to await the new con-
tracts before signing up the players for
the coming season. These contracts ar
rived in my mail this morning ana
will he able to mail them TO all the
Washington PLAYERS by tomorrow. only
three or four of the players have signed.
and they will be asked TO put their sigma
lures to the new contracts
No Trouble Expected.
Il have heard from very few of the
men since the season closed hut We do
not anticipate any trouble in getting
everybody TO sign. Manager McAleer Will
sign everybody under reserve to the
Washington club, and it is more than
likely that all will be taken on the prac-
tice trip to Norfolk.
Are there any radical changes In the
new centracts?" the local magnate was
asked.
Only two clauses. one covering the
work of the players after the season
closes and the other in which the men
agree to abide by the national commits
sion rulings. The club owners want TO
get the players down to basis Where
they will work for six months and then
rest for the other half of the year we
believe this will be of great benefit TO
the players and show itself during the
playing season complete rest In winter
without any connection whatever with
base ball, cannot help but beneit the
players, and one winters trial Will
demonstrate this belief.
About new grounds? Well, We VIII
get them just as soon as 1t Is possible.
and you can put down as a prophet that
the Washington club Will have a spick
and span new home when the season
starts in 1911"
The New Clauses.
The two new causes in the contract
that have caused considerable talk among
the ball players are as follows:
Section a. The party of the second part
(the player) will not be permitted at any
time. either during the playing season or
before the commencement or after the
close thereof, TO participate in any exhibit
ton base ball games. indoor base ball.
basket bail or foot ball. except that the,
consent of the party OF the first part has
first been secured in writing.
Section 10 1t is further understood and
agreed between both parties to this con-
~ hat hoy mill a nd al hy
the constitution. rules and edicts of such
league, subject only to an appeal for final
adjudication to the national commission,
and also respect and abide by all the pro-
visions and conditions of the national
agreement and rules of the national COM
mission.
Section was inserted i'm the contract
at the request of magnates who object
to players going on transforming trips
at the close of the regular season. II is
laimed National or American League
teams that go on the road minus their
best players. and are beaten, as some
times happens, by crossroads league
teams. do not do the game any good. On
the contrary. they put their club in a
bad light before the public.
Few Objections.
There have been many rumors to the
effect that some of the players would
object to tying themselves down for the
entire year and would refuse to sign the
new contracts. Up TO date several prom
inent players, among them Three Finger
ed Brown of the Chicago Cubs and Davy
Jones of the Detroit Tigers have ex-
pressed themselves freely against being
tied UP for the entire year. Brown and
others think they should be allowed to
make any extra money there may be in
sight for them so long as they work
faithfully for their clubs during the play
ing season.
Jones attitude is voiced in the prediction
that in another year the players will
put in their winters shOveling the snow
off the walks abutting the property
owned by the magnates and performing
other chores.
II has been suggested that the club
owners hold back ~ per cent of the
PLAYERS salaries to prevent them from
taking part I'm any of the forbidden rec
reations during the winter months.
\ prominent player now in the city,
who has been playing indoor base ball
all winter. has this to say on the hold
lng-out question:
Il don't think they will do that. 1t
would not be right and 1t would be a
real hardship on the players. not from
a monetary point of view. but from a
recreation standpoint. Participation In
winter sports keeps a man right on edge
and Is good thing If not pursued to
excess. This indoor base ball stunt
doesn't hurt the boys. II keeps them
condition In the spring. Why. when l
was attending college, | played foot ball
i'm the fall and basket ball all winter, and
when We played ball in the summer l
never felt so we'll l did after a hard
winters work in athletics"
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