The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-19
new BEARS in '13
McGiII Angry Because Players
Are Dissatisfied.
of Players VIII Be
Changed, He Says.

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\ out of Grizzly uniforms is promised
I next year as a result of the cry that
4 has gone up from members of the
1912 championship Denver team over
the division of receipts from the re-
!, cent post-seasCn series with Mime
\ apolis. The plae -ers charge that they
We're treated unfairly by Jimmy Nc
Gill, the Denver magnate- He replies
that not only were his men dealt with
in a fair manner, but that their action
in complaining is one OF extreme in
gratitude.
Friends of McGill declare that the
affair will ne followed by a complete
change in his attitude toward the ball
players and that they will be the only
ones to suffer. They assert that he has
been too good to his men with the re-
suit that they have become spoiled.
President McGiu said today that no
dissatisfied players will remain in the
club next year or at any time while
he is at the head of the local aSsocia-
ton. The disgruntled ones, he says,
Will be replaced by new men and it is
his prediction that the 1913 team will
be as strong as that which represented
Denver in the pennant chase which
has just closed. Just what specific
changes the Denver magnate has in
mind is not known. The present diff
nculty led to an early announcement
of the contemplated reorganizatio
which President McGill says he has
been working on for weeks.
Says He Treated Men Well.
AS to the charges that he treated
his players unfairly in dividing the re-
oeipts from the Minneapolis-Denver
series, McGnl cites a contract signed
by every member of the ball club
wherein they agreed to play for so
per cent. of Denvers half of the prof
its after all expenses were deducted.
He says that he lived up to his con-
tract to thu letter and that If any
civ O n
vantage Every item of expense, he
says, was passed upon and approved
by Manager Jack Hendricks. the chos-
en- representative of the players. and
he maintains that there is none that
will not bear the closest scrutiny
The chief complaint of the players
was a charge of approximately $500
for the losses sustained by the trans
fer of two football games which were
scheduled az Broadway park and the
painting of a large sign board in cen
ter field to advertise the post-seaso7
series The later item cost $50, and
it was charged by the players that
McGiH later sold the sign space for
$3.50.
The magnate says that in transfer
ring the football games he not only
lost the rental fee for his grounds but
was forced to share equally the ex-
guarantee % the football teams. In
other words. instead of earning sever
al hundred dollars he paid out $1ou
to make up a guarantee thirty ooI-
lars for painting the sign he declares
is a reasonable price, anC he mad II
constructed and gave it space in the
bail park without expense to the pan
players. He further cites the Iact
that the team was not charged rent
for the ball grounds. Notwithstanding
that he has to pay a big sum yearly |
for the park.
PLAYERS Got Their Share.
The Grizzlies received s131 apiece
as their share of the post-season pro-
fits, while they allege that Mike Can
tillon gave the entire Minneapolis por
ton to be divided among his players.
McGill says that had he so desired
he could have, in the rules of organ
lied baseball, forced his team to play
the five games under regular salary,
which would have been much less than
S131 to the man. The Denver mag
nate also questions the claim that the
Millers got $500 each. He says tha1
left Denver two days before
he series closed and that checks for
lis share of the receipts were mailed
% him. The players themselves left
Denver Sunday night and he questions
whether or not any settlement has yet
)een made by CantillOn with his men,
Even had Cantillon given the entire
proceeds of the series to his men, says
dcGill, the fact must not be over
ooked that the Minneapolis team
made S3U,UUU during the regular III c
eason as against $500 which the To-
al magnate cleared. Notwithstand- I
ng the closeness of this years race
nd that Denver COPIED the pennanr,
tendance figures show a decrease Of ,
1000 under last year. Bad weather, ;
Which robbed him of several Satu--
ay and Sunday dates, was mainly re- :
pOnsible for this.
He stood to Lose. \
Another fact which McGill advances
D show what he calls ingratitude on
he part of the ballplayers is that he {
uaranteed the Minneapolis club $3, f
90 for a series of seven games. Had /
ain or snow prevented the playing of t
he Sunday games he would be the t
1ser. Neither CantiIlon nor the mem /
ers of either club could lose a cent V
nder the agreement.
He took the risk in the belief that
e was doing the players a favor in
living them an opportunity to earn
0me extra money.
On top of all these things, Prexy
Jimmy declares that he has paid the
ighest salaries of any club owner in !
ne league; that he has fought prac- l
cally every other magnate to prevent +
ne adoption of a salary limit, so that Y
ne players could earn more money: 1
nat he has kept his players at the a
est hotels while on the road, and s
as furnished them with every COLI t
enience possible.
Lastly, he says, his reward for do S
lg what he thought was a good thing {
or his players has been anything but h
hat he expected, and that he feels
Orely hurt over the action of the club
lembers.
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