The Washington herald., 1914-01-23
kid CARSEY With
Federal LEAGUE
Man Who Handled the Local
Union Circuit Club Turns
Up IN New York.
STAGEDGAME WTTHGIRLS
Left Washington for Parts Unknown
with Gate Receipts of Sunday
Contest-Players Stranded.
STAGED GAME WITH GIRLS
BY WILLIAM PEET.

New York. Jan. 22.-Kid Carsey, famous
as a promoter and manager of the WASH
ington Union League toutlaw) club, has
bobbed up in New York, where he ex-
poets to do business with the Federal
Leaguers next season.
The Federal League will place club in
New York before the time set for the
1914 season to open." said Carsey today.
There is plenty OF backing. In fact. half
a dozen men with money stand ready to
finance the proposition. and the only rea-
son why the deal was not closed a month
ago was because suitable grounds could
not be obtained. ! have the grounds, or
at least an option on good site, and
expect to close with the promoters be-
fore the week closes. and you can say
from me that the New York Federal
League club will be composed of at least
five players of national reputation. The
money with which to pay salaries is here
and it will be spent with a lavish hand"
Signed with FederaI..
Carsey added that he would be identi-
fed with the new league in a minor ca
pacity, and ventured as his opinion that
third club in Gotham, assuring the
fans of first-class baseball, would not
only be welcomed with open arms, but
would draw big. especially on Sunday.
Kid Carsey left Washington last sum-
was charged with collecting the receipts
Of an independent game at Union League
Park one Sunday and beating 1t for
parts unknown. When asked about this,
Carsey said: IT admit that left WASH
inston with the receipts of a ball game,
but did so TO protect myself. as ] learned
that certain persons were out to double
cross me. L simply beat them to il,
that's all, and NSilected money which
was due me-"
49, Bloomer Girl Contest.
The game last season which almost
every baseball fan in the city of Wash
ngton knows about was played at the
Union League Park and a riot occurred
when one of the supposed-to-be bloomer
girls was seen chewing tobacco and an
otl,er one hurting the ball into home
plate on a dead line from left field. The
spectators suspected something then and
one reached over the rail of the grand
stand and took hold of a wig which a
player had on. Then a fight started.
The fans, in a rage, made a rush for the
players and Kid Carsey, but the Kid was
nowhere TO be found. He had left the
grounds with all the money, and the
[layers were left stranded. II seems that
tire players who took the place of the
Bloomer Girls were from Sparrows Point
and Kid Carsey had gotten them to don
Girls, who were unable to appear.
One OF the largest crowds which
ever turned out to witness an amateur
ball game was on hand. and Carsey
would have been handled roughly had
the crowd found him. AS II was. the
players suffered, and during all of the
commotion Carsey was on a train to
New York. No word was heard of
Carsey until today, when he turned up
in New York, connected with the Fed
erals.
From what could be learned from
Carsey, II seems that the Federals have
been unable to find a suitable place to
play in New York until he offered
park to them, and, from all indica-
tions, it looks as though the new
league will enter Gotham.
Locates in Gotham.
when seen last night by the writer,
Carsey said he was in a minor capacity
with the Federals and would be on hand
at the opening of the new league He
does rot deny skipping with the money,
but claims that he was only protecting
his own rights and had he not skipped
with the coin some one else would, so
there lies the whole story in a nutshell
The Federals are there with the money.
states Carsey, and a third team will so
great in New York, the fans will well
come the newcomers and 1t will be big
money making proposition. mo; it will
not be another union league or a bloomer
girl game said Carsey.