The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-12-29
PREVENT TINKER
JOINING FEDERALS
BROOKLYN CLUB WILL GO INTO
COURTS--CLAIM LEGAL RIGHT
TO HIM.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.---Joe Tinker
will not be allowed to play with the
Federal league II the powers of or
gauized baseball. invoking the aid Of
the courts, can prevent him, it was
stated here by Edward II. McKeever,
a vice president Of the Brooklyn Ma
tional league club.
Mex eeyer said that the Brooklyn
club would take immediate steps to
have Tinker restrained from asso-
clating himself with the socalled out
law organization.
we will get out an Injunction re-
straining Tinker from playing with
the Federal league said Mckeever.
Tinker Is the property of the Brook
lyn club. He has been purchased in
tho regular way, and we Will resort
to the courts to convince him and the
Federal league that he belongs to us.
--- '''ff' ii--fce-- was inc property IF the
Cincinnati club when August Herr
mana sold him to Brooklyn. There
is no doubt about that, because when
Tinker signed his 1913 contract with
Cincinnati he gave Cincinnati an OPP
ton for his services in 1914. Brook
lyn now owns that option by virture
of the deal which President Charles
Fl. Ebbets put through with August
Hermann early this month. More
over, the National league has pro-
mulgated the deal, formally recog-
nizing Tinker as Brooklyns property"
News Surprise.
The news that Tinker had signed
with the Federal league came as q
surprise to the officers of the Brook
1vn club. President Ebbets is on his
way TO Porto Rico for q three week
tt-e Cd M fhn -
ship Brazos few hours before word
reached here of the detection OF the
ehortstop who thus rejected q ten
thousand dollar bonus in addition to
what Vice President McKeever de-
scrl bed tonight as better contract
/ offered Tinker than any he had ever
signed before ms a player. Mckeever
] antIrnated that Tinker had been offer
! ed more than $4,000 year for three
! years. In addition to the ten thousand
dollar bonus.
! The Brooklyn club explained Its
preferred terms in q letter to Tinker
/ last Tuesday, according TO Mckeever,
/ and no renly was received from the
shortstop. McKeever said Tinker
/ gave TO intimation to the club that
( he planned to Join the Federal league.
"We have treated Tinker IN regu-
/ lar business way. and In gentleman :
ly way" said McKeever, land he has
I treated us unfairly. We assume that
he is a member of the Baseball Play
ers' fraternity. and as such he should
have waited before signing with out
ilaw baseball. at least until the ma
tional commission had taken action,
| in January, on the demands OF the
| fraternity"
/ In taking the Tinker case TO the
courts Bernard York, counsel for the
/ Brooklyn club, said he had not given
tho subject sufficient study to be able
/ to say tonight whether resort would
be taken to the federal courts or the
| New York or Illinois State courts
Speaking offhand. he said, inasmuch
as the Brooklyn club is a New Jersey
corporation. and the Tinker deal with
/ the Federal club was assumably made
in Chicago, the injunction would be
sought in the United States court.
/ York conceded that In this event
the fight of organized baseball against
! the Federal league might reach the
United States Supreme court.