New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-10
Boxing 4 Golf 4 Other Sports
Long List of Requests
from Baseball Players

! door for fraud. No explanation is neces-
| sary to prove the justice of this request.
Request Eight. All teams except those
In the National League furnish players
uniforms at the present time. In the
National League player pays each team
| he plays on $50 for two uniforms; when
| he is transferred two or three times a
season the expense Is not only heavy
upon him, but there is an economic waste.
Old uniforms are of no value to the play
ers. but they can be used to advantage
| by the team. They are purely personal
10 the teams. and should be paid for and
| owned by them
I'm addition, there have been instances
where men have paid for new uniforms
and received secondhand ones, or even,
in the case of pitchers, none at oil, and
have been compelled when they went mtg
game to borrow from other players.
I'VE think the player should make a
| deposit, which should be returned to him,
provided he turns in his uniforms at the
J en9,.nS A;he season, but that the team
should eventually pay for them,
Request Nine. The stipulated form OF
contract says the team shall pay the
| players travelling expenses from blank
city TO the training camp. The teams
| have various ways OF filling in this blank
space. and some of them have this season
refused to pay the players anything upon
these expenses.
when II is considered that the player
has left his winter occupation six weeks
| before the season starts is not under sal
airy and is performing exhibition games,
| in many cases at a profit to his employer.
il seems that he should at least have all
his expenses paid
Request Ten. The probationary con-
tract runs for forty-fve days, and the
National Agreement says that If at the
| expiration of that time the player is not
returned TO the minor league a regular
contract shall be entered with him. But
as TO penalty is provided, teams have on
several occasions ignored the rule. and
simply held the player without any con-
tract until they had a chance 10 sell him.
Requests Eleven and Twelve. These
provisions are for the protection of the
veteran.
I'VE concede that organized baseball
chased or drafted player, but we believe
that this right has been worked out IN
the number OF years set forth in the
paragraphs Records of the leading base
bail statisticians Of the country, John j..
Lawres OF Milwaukee. who continued the
work laid down by Father Chadwick,
show that the big league life of a player
is only four and a half years.
when a man has given the best years
of his life to organized ball, is reaching
the end of his baseball career and is no
longer wanted in the class in which he
has rendered service. we believe he should
be unhampered in his endeavors to secure
a position, and not sold under any such
a contemplate agreement as Murphy sofa
Mordecai Brown TO Louisville year ago.
REQUEST Thirteen. The withdrawal OF
requests for waivers is used In a great
many cases 10 enable team 10 trade
plaver to a certain minor league team Tor
another player. The transaction works
this way: A team asks for waivers ana
another one refuses to waive. If the ask
ing team does not withdraw requests 1t
must Iet the player go TO the refusing
team This II is not willing to do, as II
would thus lose its chance to get the
minor league player II wants. II there
for withdraws requests, either makes
some arrangement with the refusing
team. or waits until the refusing team Is
loaded up with players. asks again FOR
waivers and railroads the player TO the
minors.
REQUEST Fourteen. The power TO me
and suspend is often used to gratiiy
managers personal spite, which would
not be sanctioned by the National Com
mission for a moment. We believe that
when a players money Is taken there
should be a reason sufficiently valid TO
be placed in black and white, otherwise
il should not be done.
Request Fifteen. The National com
mission has always had trouble getting
the proper evidence 10 decide cases
brought before ii, and we think that
rumber OF our suggestions. If adopted
would 90 far toward simplifying its du-
ties .. La,,o
REQUEST Sixteen. Many batters nave
been seriously injured because OF their
inability to see pitched balls due to bad
background. and we think that the play
ers are entitled TO this safeguard.
"Reouest Seventeen. This provision is