The Calumet news., 1912-09-10
|CALUMET TEAM
NOT TO BLAME
Failure of Marquette to Come
Here Is Explained

| The Mining Journal IN eNplaininl
the failure Of the Marquette baseball
team To come To Calumet for games
last saturday and Sunday. and th'
withdrawal of the Marquette and Cal.
that Calumet Is as much To blame al
Marquette for the failure of that team
to come here. II explains that tn,
Marquette management and players
severed connections Friday night and
that Calumet was notified Saturday
morning that the Queen city team was
not on the tram bound for Calumet
but raised the point that the Mar
quette players offered to come her,
for SUNDAY and Monday games. so as
not to disappoint the fans, an Offer
which was declined by Calumet, indi-
eating that aClumet was ae anxious ia
cult as Marquette. and thereby shift
ing some of the blame from the latter
team.
Manager Horl1ins is able to place a
different color on Calumet's action In
declining the Sunday and Monday
games. putting the Calumet team in a
better light He states that Manager
Eidholme of Marquette called him up
about 9 30 saturday morning. explain
ing that the. team was no longer under
his control and was not coming to
Calumet and the Marquette manager
made a proposal that If Calumet would
offer some inducement, he could get
the players 10 come here Sunday and
provided that each team retain it's at
home receipts. and The Calumet team
had never been given any induce
ments TO fulfill it's schedule I'm the iron
country. Manager Horkins rightly de
clined to give Marquette any money
for coming here.
About an hour later, Manager Allen
received a message from Mar
quette suggesting that the team
would come here If the receipts of the
two games We're devided 60 per cent
TO the winner and 40 To the loser. Mr..
Horkins denies the Mining Journals
inference that Marquette offered TO
fulfill it's baseball obligations here and
that the Calumet manae eement volun-
tarily threw away the probable gate
receipts which would amount to about
$500.
II is reported IN Calumet that the
Marquette management severed al
Connec tions with the players as early
as Sept. .. and that the players were
paid by the fair management to re-
main there for the fair games. Had
The Calumet management been advised
of this they could have dsbanded the
team Sept and saved five days sal
aries.
The Calumet team has paid its share
of the league expenses from the start.
rhe Calumet teams draft on the
league treasurer for the expenses OF
the trip, AuguCt II and IS was re
turned unpaid, the trcasurer's expla
ration being that he had been unable
to get Marquette to pay it's share Of
the league expenses. The teams haG
an agreement for an equal division of
'i' i'N'iPAS VI o'i hpiih"H r1iiN's l'hA
Treasurer f. Klein of Negaunee as
serts that Marquette has not made
good with the receipts of the Labor
Day games.
In letter sept. 6 to President T. S.
Eaton Of Calumet Treasurer Klein
asks Mr.. Eaton To commence legal pro-
ceednss against Marquette for holding
the receipts of the Labor Day games
Ills letter follows:
The Marquette MANAGEMENT has
not turned i'm the receipts for the La
oor Day games. They are holding
S1S2.15 that richtfully belongs TO the
leacue. and which they claim they
have paid out in salaries to their play
crs. | think legal proceedings ought
To- he started at once"
II the claims of Treasurer Klein arc
justified. II appears the Marquette
management has done the other teams
Of the league great injustice. 1t e.
doubtful II any team in the league has
scaped financial embarrassment this
season. and If Marquette is behind Il
Is no more than can be said Of all OF
the other teams. II would seem that
Marquette's best course would be to
play fair and make good the shortage.