The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-14
HAS THREE MILLION
To FLOAT LEAGUE
Promoter Claims to Have the
National and American
Stars Signed Up.

tl-NNI-N~Nt IL, ocibDtE l--lJdHlei ~
Fletcher, the Cincinnatian who says
that he Will organize a third major
league, and that it will have many of
the greatest ball stars of both the Ma
tiOnal and the American leagues, this
afternoon gave out partial list OF the
players he expects to use in the differ
ent cities of that league. With others,
he named Cobb of Detroit, Speaker of
Boston, Pitcher johnson Of the Wash
ington club and Pitcher Ford Of the
New York Highlanders.
All these men are from the American
League. Then he named Catcher John
ny King of the Cubs, Second Baseman
Evers of the same team and First Base
man Konetchy of the Cardinals. He
says that he has secured the signatures
of men Of every one of the clubs in
the major leagues, but that for several
reasons he can make no more of them
public.
''They are still laughing at me, are
theys' he asked of his interviewer.
The interviewer said that he expect
ed they were.
when he began the expansion of the
American League, and Wen see who
laughs the last, l am ready to show
letters and agreements from moneyed
men who offer me not only their finan-
cia support, but grounds already in
their control, ready to be improved for
baseball purposes, in all the major
cities. / am ready to show the con-
tracts of the greatest stars of the Ma
tional and American leagues, as well
as several men now playing IN the
American Association.
cit may be news to you that the
reason Charley Carr quit the manage
ment of the American Association club
in Indianapolis was to take position
under me to secure the best players
in the league He knows those players
better than anybody else and will be
a valuable man in securing the best
that s to be gotten out of the associa.
ton. Before the spring of next year
Wen have one of the best lists of
baseball men in this country for that
league, and next We II play games IN
the eight cities which will be a part of
that league. Carr is to remain with
me and will be one of my right hand
men. Anybody who says I IN foolish
and that | don't know the game Of
baseball had better allow their opinions
to rest until / announce the brains
of my organization.
Not only is the field wide open for
third major league, it is waiting for
the men to take command. I have
enough money to do this and will spend
every penny on the plan before ] am
through with it, which means $3,000,-
600 I am offering big money for the
PLAYERS and am getting them. Don t
YOU believe that a salary of $4,000 and
a bonus Of $4,000. which will be paid
to Cobb would be perfectly reasonable
for the value of such a man as draw
ing card The other day | held meet
inc at St. Louis which was attended
by twenty-five of the Browns and
White Sox The Sox told me that
Comiskey had Just done something he
had never done before, summoned them
all before him and said that he was
going on a fishing trip and wanted them
to sign right away for 1911 Am
Worrying them? Well. rather.
Good lawyers have analysed both
my contracts and those of the major
leagues We can hold our players and
we can take all those we want. If we
have Johnson. Cobb. Speaker, Ford,
Evers, King and a few more for a
nucleus. | expect we can get the others
without any trouble. And won t these
men pave the way for a great onrush
of the American and National League
men to our standards | can show
ground leases. duly signed by the mag
mates of both leagues. and | shall hold
them to these leases in the courts if
thew try to block my all-star series of
baseball games Maybe hey can ma
tional commission me out of the right
to use these leases hut they can t law
me out Of them, and we shall fight that
through the courts. too. Take it all
together 7 guess / have about as even
a break with them as they II want, and
it will hurt them to see their great
PLAYERS leaving them for better
money
Despite Mr. Fqetcher's optimism a
number of big league stars. he is said
to claim. have flashed denials over the
wires that they viii be among the
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