The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-12-29
HARD To BELIEVE
TINKER HAS JUMPED
YICE-PREsIDENT M'KEEvER STILL
DOUBTT.UL--wOULD GO TO
"
SUPREME COURT.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.--vice-Presfs
dent Edward Mckeever, of the Brook
lyn club in the absence of Presidents
Ebbets. who sailed for Porto RICO on
Saturday, before learning the report
that Joe Tinker had signed three.
year contract to manage the Chicago
Federal league team, said today that
II WAS hard to believe the news.
IF it Is really true that Tinker has
signed with the Federal league the
Brooklyn club in due time will take
the matter into the courts" said Mr..
McKeever. we win fight to finish
too. AS soon az we have proof that
Tinker has put his name on paper We
will instruct our attorney. Bernard =.
York, TO apply to the federal courts
for a permanent injunction restrain
Ing Tinker from playing baseball with
the so-calied Chicago Federal league
club or with any other club Identified
with that circuit.
Even to Supreme Court.
"I think that II Tinker has really
Jumped, he has treated the Brooklyn
club unfairly We made him fair
salary proposition in writing week
ago, which he Is at liberty to make
public. He didn't take the trouble to
answ or our letter. though, and the fans
ought to know It"
"If you fail 20 enjoin Tinker, Will
you recover the $lb,uou pAlu 70 SAu~
cinnati?" he was asked.
II should think So" was the reply.
"But. that is something I don't care to
discuss"
Attorney York intimated today that
, legal proceedings In the Tinker Case
would be carried to the United States
Supreme court IL necessary.
u think the whole Tinker episode to
the present time is unfortunate for
I 3npA
Baker of the Philadelphia club. III
Tinker has jumped, as reported. 1t il
up TO the Brooklyn clubowners to en-
force their rights to the letter either
by legal action or by any other COURSE
deemed advisable by their attorneys.
Thinkers reported action doesn't add
any strength to the fraternity demands.
/ which are to be considered by the Ma
tionai commission in Cincinnati on JAM
| uary 9Th
Cravath VIII Not Jump.
| Mr. Baker took occasion to deny the
| report that Cravath, one of the Phifa-
! delphia outfielders, was about to join
/ the Federals. He said that Cravath
! had written to another member OF the
team within a week that he would re-.
/ port for training at Wilmington, n. g.
/ II don't care to express an opinion"
/ said James f. Gaffney. president OF the
! Boston Nationals, except that per-
! haps Tinker Is bluffing."
II the Chicago Federais have guar.
anteed to pay $4,000 to Tinker for
/ three years, a big contract has been
assumed inasmuch as new ground
costing In the neighborhood of $4,000
must be built before April. Organized
/ baseball men who have been fnvestt-
| eating tho financial strength Of the
Federals still insist that the whole plan
| will go up In thin air. The owner OF
! the Buffalo franchise Is Dick Carroll
a former pitcher OF the New York
| Americans, who is now q cigar sales
man. Otto Steifel. the brewer. who II
said to be the chief hacker Of the move-
ment. refus~S9to buy the st. Louis
American leag1e franchise two years
ago. stating that the price WAS too
| high
VIM Have Trouble in BaItimores
Organized baseball men assert that
I Edward Hanlon and Judge Henry
Goldman will not subscribe dollar
! to promote the Federars cause n
Baltimore.
The present form of players con.
tract, which Tinker Is said to have
violated. was drafted by John Conway
Toole. a New York lawyer, 1t 10 I'M.
derstood. Former president OF tho
United States william Fl. Taft recently
pronounced the reserve clause legal and
| other eminent legal authorities have
!, expressed similar opinions.
1t Is known. however. that organised
baseball men do not like the idea Of
taking the contract into court for the
reason that an adverse ruling on the
reserve clause would ruin professionn4
baseball. Many of the big league club
owners say privately that Ebbefe
should have signed Tinker at ths lat-
ter's terms when the purchase price
had been paid rather than make tho
present embarrassing conditions poQA
slble.