New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-27
MACNATES BECOME
MORE TRACTABLE
pecoqnize Baseball Play
ers' Fraternity Will
Hear Its Demands.
FIITZ TO GO BEFORE
NATIONAL COMMISSION
Saws Organization Will Not Fight
Reserve Clause Except on
Matter of Veterans.

c,.capizcd baseball has at last come to
600 fine light and has formally recognized
~. Baseball Players Fraternity. In a
..a,emout given out yesterday afternoon
,ore Fultz. president of the organiza-
-, made public the fact that the Ma
anal commission was prepared to hear
dino demands of the players and had APP
,oi,ted January as the date for pre-
',-,ipe the petition. 4 committee repre-
-.r,inc the national board of arbitration,
...icb controls minor league affairs. will
;oir with the supreme court Of baseball
I, conference on the questions which
will come mp
IN picking a committee to represent
she fraternity, Fultz has named himself,
o-J in so doing has dehed the powers
not no I'm baseball \ few weeks ago
err, HERMANN delivered a few pointed
.,uarks about the organization Of play
avs and declared that the commission
ucpld never consent TO hear Fultz, as it
-ocsrded him more or less in the light OF
an interlopcI
since Ban johnson got back from his
...stion and announced that he had no
o,iections 10 Fultz a lot has happened.
10, the least OF the many events has
10, ,bc election Of Governor Tencr as
r,esident Of the National League. the
latter is a firm believer in tho rights OF
,be rlavcrs. 1t is not surprising, there
lore that Garry has shifted his ground.
Fultz's statement reads as follows
Tho Baseball Players Fraternity has
,s,efyed an invitation To- send commit
TOO 10 Cincinnati on January TO appear
before the National Commission and
committee representing the national
hoard OF arbitration for a conference re-
rsrdinc the players petition. The frater-
ritv probably will be- represented by John
Henry. Jacob f. Daubert, Ray W.
Collins. John g. Miller, Edward NJ. Reul-
bach and myself.
"It has been enormously reported that
the fraternity will make a fight against
the reserve clause. There is nothing in
our petition which in any way affects
this clause. with the exception OF the
eleventh. and twelfth requests. which ask
that the veteran player when no longer
wanted iu the classification in which he
has labored for years be released out
right
AS these requests arc not aimed at the
pringfuIo ~ reservation and only slightly
affcc, the operation of tins clause the!
cannot with Justice be characterized as
antag0uietic 10 it,
Word comes from Chicago that plan
TO eliminate the Intentional passing OF
heavy hittcrs will be proposed to the
rules committee of the National Baseball
League ~ its next meeting. Hank
ODay, umpire and member OF the COM
mittec. has am idea that making the
pitching box narrower would accomplish
the desired object.
Never before At this stage Of the WIN
Ter season has there been such a scare
ity Of hold-outs as this wear. I'm winters
past the beIligerent athletes broke into
the prints i'm great numbers almost every
day. but this year hold-Outs are scarcer
than remnants in Cincinnati.
Because of the order OF the Baseball
Players Fraternity that no player may
sign until the maguates meet the organ
!satiou's demands. the club owners have
RETAINED from sending out contracts 10
their players. And unless contracts are
sent out there can be no hOld-Outs. In
the mean time Charles webb Murphy and
the Federal League are making up for
the deficit in baseball news.
Tiuie Blackburue, the $4,000 beauty re
rallied by Jimmy Callahan last fall from
is slated for the job as regu-
AR second bascman Of the White Sox
next season. Joe Berger. who covered
he position for the Chicago team during
the latter part Of last season, will be re-
leased 10 Los Angeles because Of his
weak batting, according TO reports.
Long Cy. Williams, left fielder of the
Chicago cubs. was married on Christmas
Day to Miss Vada Perkins, Of Goodland
Ind.
Frank Schultz, right fielder Of the CUBS
who won the Chalmers automobile In
1911. lost his prize recently through a
FIRE Oh his ranch in Georgia.
Arthur Fletcher, the Giants shortstop'
has organized an indoor baseball club.
and will compete with the teams around
Coll.nsville. H.. his home town.
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