The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-22
Tim Jordan Wants
 $2,O0O Back Pay
Also Wants to Know Why Brooklyn is Blocking His
 Sale to Pittsburgh
NeM York Globel

(, Timothy Jordan, the we'll known real estate and home run dealer of the Bronx, has an omnivorous taste for humorous. literature. Tim is so strong for the funny stuff that he can laugh even when the joke is on himself-which 1t appears to be in the incident we are about to relate:
 Every time Tim feels like assemb- ling his features into an audible smile he digs up a newspaper clipping of last Friday and sinks into dazed con- temptation of the benevolent inten- tions of the National League regard ing the advancement of players in the profession.
 passed at the final session of the lea que meeting last week were several recommending improvements in the drafting and waiver processes. All through these resolutions the fact was mentioned that the National League desired to aid players to ad- vance and once having advanced the league would keep them in fast com- pany as long as possible by recon. mending interleague waivers on all athletes in danger of going back to the brush.
 All of this is painful information to Tim, who has chapped lips as a result of coming out of winter quar- ters last week to see the magnates in their annual quarrel at the Wal> dorf. The intelligence was conveyed to Jordan that his services were de- sired by certain National League club. But as far as Tim can learn. another National league club is op- posed to him advancing in his pros fession unless said advancement prof. its the second club financially.
 When Jordan reflects upon the obs stacies interposed between his release by the Toronto club of the Interna- tional League and his engagement by the Pittsburgh club of the National League, he loses his smile. He is go~ ing to find out why he cannot advance and connect with Q major league satisfaction through the National Commission he intends to resort to the law.
 Jordan has flied a claim against the Brooklyn Club for back salary amounting to nearly $2,O00. This claim has no connection with his eff fort to discover what mysterious in fluence is blocking his return to the National League. It is an old issue. But Tim thinks it will be good idea to have a complete showdown on the relations between himself and the Brooklyn club for the last three years.
 Early in the season of 1910. Jordan was seriously Handicapped by lame. knee, He says he injured this limb in the performance of his baseball duties and claims that he should have been paid for the time he was com pellad to lose On May he went to the hospital and two days later he was notified of his release to the Tor onto club, waivers having been obtain ed about the time that he was suc- ceeded at first base by Jake Daubert. who still holds the position.
 It was impossible, Of course, for Jordan to report to the Toronto club. and consequently his baseball income ceased abruptly. He was lame the remainder of the season and could not play. Naturally the Toronto club could not be expected to pay a man fore looks to the Brooklyn club for his money.
 Under the terms of his contract he contends that no salary should be de- ducted for time lost in the treatment of an injury received in the service of the National League contract has precedence over that clause which provides that club may release an injured player within fifteen days. Jordan says that he was cut off the Brooklyn clubs payroll three days after going to the hospital.
 The amount that Jordan seeks to recover by this action is $2.000 and as that represented his salary from May to October he must have been getting the magnificent sum of. about s2;4oO for playing first base. . bonus which he was to have receiv- ed if he hit better than .260 but he is willing to give that to MT. Ebbets. He. will insist on the two thousand, however. His claim was filed last week and his attorneys have been no- tified that it will be considered at the January meeting of the National Commission,