The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-13
FEDERAL LEAGUE PLAYERS
BARRED FROM ORGANIZED
BASEBALL BY COMMISSION
Members of Players Fraternity Will be Automatically Suspend
ed and Five Years Must Elapse Before Making Application
For Reinstatement Joe Tinker Scores David Fulz In
mercifuly for Upholdng Commission Says
That Fraternity Head is Gutter.

ers from organized baseball. Fultz has
aimed a blow at the very principles
of his organization. If the Federal
league at the end of a year is taken
into organized baseball what VIII be-
come Of the fraternity Why, II will
be joke and Fultz will lose his job
Treatment Il Absurd.
This threat to bar out players is
.Lbsurd." said Otto knabe. manager OF
.he Baltimore Federals. IF il had not
been for the Federal league organized
baseball would have never recognized
the fraternity, and Mr.. Fultz would not
have been drawing a fat salary to
promote the fraternity's interests
President Johnson, of the American
league, would not discuss the warlike
measure except to say that the dis
barment rule swouid be enforced to the
letter He added that ten American
league players had jumped to the Fed
erals and that only two of them would
be taken back. one being King Cole,
who already has returned to the New
York Americans. Mr.. Johnson said
that the hight To be waged by organ
lied baseball would be extremely bit
ter and that iH due time the plan
action would be outlined in various
ways Mr.. Johnson said that the ma
tionaI comm ssion had received un-
hampered authority to act in any way
that the members of ii might see Mt
and that within the next two weeks
there would be many interesting de-
velopments.
AT the commissions meeting today
was President Barrow. of the interna-
tTonal league. and President Chiving-
ton of the American association. and
il was said that plans to strengthen
both circuits by admitting clubs to
major league territory had been thor
oughly discussed. II was learned that
if Barrow and the International
leaguers decided that club in Brook
Iyn would help them. they would be
permitted to transfer the Jersey City
franchise to that borough without
paying one cent To the Brooklyn club
for that privilege.
From an excellent source comes the
information that the American asso-
cations desire 10 offer Chicago fran
chise to Charles Weeghmap In that
city had been turned down. bat 1t WAS
stated that If the American associa-
ton wanted to place a fourth club in
Chicago permission would b. Hr,tstted.
and the association would not be COM
PEELED to pay 1cr that right.
c. w. Somers, OF the Cleveland
Maps, when asked about the. rt7tu tc
transfer his Toledo club in the AnieFi
tan association to the Forest CITY said.
that nothing had been done.
Signing Contracts.
The commission had several forms
Of the contracts that are being sign
ed by Federal league players before
them. and one of these documents
was the contract of Catcher Giliifer of
the Philadelphia Nationals, which he
signed at the instance of the Chicago
Federals . month ago. Mr. Hermann
made the statement that the Killer
contract contained an option clause
binding the player TO the Chicago Fed
erals for a period of ten years, at an
annual increase in salary of per cent
of the original sum. Mr.. hermann
also said that he had other contracts
which contained option clauses frofn
one to three years, which he declared
proved that the Federals' claim that
players had a right TO jump the OPP
ton clauses in their organized league
contracts was nothing more than
hypocrisy.
/ II will give $1,000 10 any charitable
institution in New YORK, said Mr.
Hermann, IF President Gilmore. Of
the Federals. can shcw a contract in
regular form. signed by any player
now claimed by his organization that
does not contain an option clause, and
also ten days release notice.
IF our form OF contract, as they