The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-11

and Is now considering fe0eral league
offer.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE Federal
league is ready to give Rube Marquard
back to the New York Giants Presi-
dent r. B. Ward Of the Brookfeds, who
signed Marquard for his team has
written letter to that effect to Pres
ldent n. N. Hampstead of the Giants
All the organized baseball forces must
do to get Marquard back is to convince
Mr.. Ward that the I'll. 600 beauty really
was under a binding contract with the
Giants when he signed with the Feds,
IN which case the Wards do not want
him.
In his letter to President Hampstead
Mr.. Ward takes occasion to demon
strate that the F'ederals are making
much greater efforts to play the game
fairly than is the Giants management
He instances the case of William Rit-
ter and says that player was actually
under contract to the Brookfeds when
the Giants signed him away from the
Ward team by using influence with his
father.
Mr.. Ward also discloses that Mar
guard sought the Federals instead of
having been kidnapped by them. He
says that the RUDE literally came to
the Brookfed camp with his hat in his
hand begging to be signed up and as
sured the Wards that he was under
absolutely no obligation to the Giants.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. I.-Frank
Chance, former manager of the New
York Yankees said Thursday that as
early as last spring it was an open
secret that Eddie Collins intended go
ing to the Federals at the close of the
playing season, and apparently the only
way to keep him in organized baseball
was to give him the managership of
the Sox.
1T was the same way with Bender
and Plank said Chance, but there
was nothing for the organized baseball
people to do but stand by and see these
two stars take the jump.
The FederalS gave the major leag-
| uers hard fight last year." continued
Chance, land they will put up even
better scrap this year. Ward has
plenty Of money and is not afraid to
spend it, and the Federals will just
about wreck things before they get
through.
The Federals are out to establish
themselves no matter what the price
may be- The major leaguers are
simply demoralized; they don't know
which way to duck. They'll do lot of
queer things before the 1915 schedule
| is ripped into"
Chicago. Ill, Dec. 11.-Eddie Nc
! Goorty, one of the big three in the
TH1OuleWelSHt DIVISION, ana not Jimmy
Clabby, will be Mike Gibbons oppon-
/ ent in Milwaukee either January l or
4 before Frank Mulkern's Dreamland
! club This was the decision reached
following a conference between the
promoters. Larney Litchenstein, Clab-
! by's manager, and later with Jim Null
| len, McGOorty'S adviser.
! 1t was Mulkern's original intention
to stage Gibbons-Clabby contest on
the dates mentioned but through some
hook or crook Clabby is not satisfied
with the terms offered by Mulkern,
preferring to take his chances before
Andrews club. AS Gibbons has agreed
to perform for Mulkern, this made the
contest impossible at this time.
McGoorty, on the other hand. arrived
in Chicago ready to jump into the bus
mess of battling and he consented to a
Gibbons fight without an argument.
His reasons are that he shaded Mike
when they fought in New York and is
under the impression that he can turn
the trick again.
In grabbing the Gibbons McGoorty
match Mulkern outbid two New York
clubs as well as rival Cream City
promoter Sporting authorities here are
Of the opinion that this contest will
draw in the neighborhood Of $4,000 and
as both fighters are working on a per-
| centage their income will be several
| hundred dollars over the $4,000 mark.