The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-11-14
PROBE WORLDS
SERIES SCANDAL

New York, Nov. 14.-Investigation
of the alleged scandal connected with
the sale of tickets for the worlds |
series baseball games at the Polo
grounds will be taken up today at the
meeting Of the National Commission. |
President Johnson of the American |
League, who has assumed the leader
ship in the inquiry, will submit to his
colleagues the information that has
come to him. 1t has been alleged that
large quantities of the tickets for
the first game in this city found their
way into the hands of ticket scalpers.
President Brush and other officials of
the New York National league club
Indignantly deny that they were par
ties to any plan for such a disposal of
the tickets and say they made every
effort to prevent spectators from Sc
curing the tickets.
Another important matter before
the commission is the resolution pre-
scented by August Hermann, chairman
of the National Commission and own
er of the Cincinnati Reds, which for
bids the active performers in the ma
tional pastime from indulging their
theatrical talents during the off-seas-
on and also from reporting worlds
series games for the newspapers.
| Dozens of baseball stars have added
! to their financial assets by appearing
several others are so engaged at pres
ent. During the contests last month
between New York and the Athletics
over a score of players from other
teams turned reporters, making a
pretty penny thereby, and even some
of the players actively engaged among
them Big Chief Meyers, the Giant
catcher. wrote accounts of the games.
The players are up in arms against
the Hermann resolution, which they
say is designed to further enslave the
athletes who fill the pockets of the
magnates with easy money. If Ban
Johnson and Tom Lynch, the col
leagues of Hermann on the commits
sion, give their approval to the plan,
it will mean that valuable source of
revenue will be lost to the celebrities
of the diamond.
Players maintain that they have
tamely submitted to many inconveni-
ences for the good of the game but
declare they will stand no such man
acles as Hermann is forging. At least
the FASTENERS who are in New York
will not do the tame submission stunt
i They declare they will fight from the
drop of the hat, and that a union o
baseball players, akin to the trade
unions and possibly affiliated will
the American Federation Of Labor, i
by no means impossible. Let the cue
cursed magnates have c-care,
/ Talk Of a union or protective assc
I citation among the players has beel
4 revived Such an organization woul
mean mutiny. and il would be a migf
/ ty grave mutiny if all the player
should stick together. Those VIII
favor "A union say the players have a
| ready sacrificed too much libert!
The baseball contract of itself make
the men little less than the slaves ,
| their owners, to be bought and sol
l like Uncle Toms. They may be r
tanned indefinitely without salary i
crease, while their employers me
discharge them on ten days motto
Some of the players favor an appe
NJ to Attorney General Wickersham
. prosecute the baseball magnates Il
der the Sherman antitrust law, viii
others allege that the statute again
\ peonage would about fit their case
N If the Hermann proposition is indol