The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-07

WHICH GaHney DOuSnt were lnOuSnI 10
be from such source. The members of
the National Commission said that
with the exception of this isolated
case no other evidence Of speculating
had been called to their attention. 1t
was also stated that any action in the
matter would be deferred until later
| in the week.
| Baseball enthusiasts who had made
Journeys of thousands of miles in or
der to be present at the opening of the
series were not influenced by the re-
marks of the National Commission and
continued their hunt for a speculator
who would exchange a coupon for any
sum within reason or even little be-
yond it. Two "thirty-third dergee
fans" from Alaska offered $50 for set
of three tickets, but continued the
search when the sharp-featured vendor
demanded $1OO and refused to dicker
A trio of Texas enthusiasts paid SIS
for three seats for the opening game
and appeared to feel that they had Sc
cured a bargain.
The National Commission appeared
to be more interested in the cases oi
the players who were supposed tt
write special articles on the worlds
series than in the activities of the spec
ulators. After a meeting to consider
this and other features of the series
Garry Hermann said
Would Break Contracts.
"The commission feels just the same
about ball players writing for the news
papers as they did when it made Its
announcement in Cincinnati some days
ago We do not feel that player ir
an independent series who writes
stories of the games can give the bes'
efforts to his club. However, since the
commission decided that players shall
not write for the newspapers, it has
been visited by newspaper editors ant
others connected with newspapers and
informed that they had contracts will
certain players to write about the Sc
ries, and that if the decision of the
. commission to stop the players from
writing were enforced the players
would be violating these contracts.
1.-THE commission has carefully con
sidered the matter and has decided
that it will penalize any player wht
disobeys the commissions ruling, un
less there are extenuating circum
, stances. If ballplayer has contrac
| to write and if this contract was exc
cuted before the commission took it
action on Sept 27, we will conside
{ that an extenuating circumstance"
Mr.. Hermann was asked if that ap
r piled to all players and managers il
t post-season interleague series, and h
= said it did, adding:
| after this year no ballplayer o
q manager will be given permission t
5 sign a contract.
0 "I might add" said Mr.. Hermann
q that the National Commission has n
d desire to regulate the newspapers, bu
n we took the action against players wri
ing stories of the games at the requet
4 Of the Baseball Writer'S National A
e sociation."
" instructs Umpires-
a. It took the National Commission on
"a fifteen minutes to modify It's decisic
d regarding the play-writers. After tn
d action, Umpires KLEIN, Rigier' conne
m ~. and Egan were called in and give
fnal instructions, as were also the
fetal scorers.
IN At the request of the baseball WI
Y ers the commission agreed to have
as third scorer sit with the two of1ci
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