Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30
SAY PLAYERS ARE
LOSING DIGNITY
MOgnIs Will Prevent Star Ball
tossers from Engaging in
Semi-PrO Contests.
FULTz is NOT WORRIED

Because Chief Bender. OF the
worlds champion Athletics, pitched
for a semi-professional team in
Brooklyn recently and the champions
famous 100000 infield, composed of
McInnis. Collins, Baker and Barry,
performed for a semi-professional
team IN the Bronx. the National Com
mission lie going to take radical meas
ures to put a stop to the practise.
The commission says that It detracts
from the dignity of the game TO have
such great players mingling on the
sand lots with any pickup team
which is willing to give them little
money.
Dave Fultz, president OF the Play
ers' Fraternity, Is not worrying be
cause Garry Hermann, of the Ma
tional Commission, says he will not
allow him 10 appear before him in
behalf of the down trodden ball
player. Fultz wants II understood
that he is not at tho head Of the
organization of his own inclination.
but because all its members wanted
him, for he knows the game and
the managers, and was a player him
self. Also, being practising lawyer.
the players want Fultz to represent
them because they believe he can
state their case to the commission
better than they can themselves. Mr..
Herrmann's statement against Mr..
Fultz will in no way affect his plans
for appearing before them.
Charles II. Ebbets, chief owner Of
the Superbas, celebrated the fifty
fifth anniversary Of his birth yes
yterday.
Bobby Wallace, the veteran in
fielder who, it was reported, did not
care to play under Branch Hickey
and asked to be traded, has sworn al
legiance to the new manager OF the
Browns.
Fears that Charles Webb Murphy,
owner of the Chicago Cubs, who sails
for Europe next week, will make Ire
land his permanent home, are I'M
founded. Murphy will stay abroad
only five weeks, and will return in
time TO whoop things up at the an
ntal meeting of the National League
on December 5.
George Stallings emphaticaliy de-
MES the statement, credited to him
that the American League is 30 per
cent stronger than the National. The
manager of the Boston Braves brands
the story as a base fabrication.
August Hermann, president Of the
Cincinnati Reds, 's authority for the
statement that George Suggs, the
pitcher, was sold to the st. Louis
Cardinals for cash consideration
and die not involve the exchange of
any players.
According to the physicians, Jack
COMBS, pitcher of the Athletics, will
be as good as new when the weights
are removed from his spine, today
or tomorrow.
Unfettered by contract calling for
him to stay off the stage, and sure
of a clubhouse roof over his head
next season. Charles Doom. manager
of the Phillies, will appear in vaude-
Vile this winter. The above-men-
toned conditions prevented him from
earning "side money" last winter.
but this year it's different.
Dode Crisis. the big pitcher who
comes back to the American League
from Texas, says he has returned to
stay this time. He declares he never
had an opportunity to show what he
really could do while he was with the
Browns, as he was used as pinch
hitter most OF the time. but that he
feels certain that Frank Chance will
A-t~ hi he.
result being that he cannot fall to
succeed.
II is UP Secretary John 3. Fos-
ter, of the Giants, to close the deal
~ which First Baseman Ed Ko-
netchy goes to the New Workers.
Manager Miller Higgins. of the Car
dinals, said yesterday that McGraw
had instructed him to fix it up with
Foster while he, McGraw, is away
on the world tour.
doc" White, the veteran south
paw of the White Sox. is thinking Sc
riously of joining the players who are
making q tour of the world.
Frank "wfdhre'' Schultz, the out
fielder of the Chicago Cubs. is on his
way to his plantation in Woodbury.,
Ga. Schultz has extensive peach or
chards, and plans to settle down and
be- a farmer when his baseball days
are over.
Joe Tinker, manager of the Reds,
and Mordecai Brown are on a hunt
ing trip in the Dakotas.
Larry Cheney and Walter Johnson
will meet in a pitching duel in
Bartlesville, Okla, on Sunday after
noon.
death Valley" Scott Holds
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