Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-22
SAYS THERE IS
MORE Behind It
Not Apparent at Present
McGraw Would Like to
See if Men Would Strike.
BELIEVE
MAY NOT
Organized Baseball and
Players Fraternity May
Have Difficulties.

Cincinnati, July 22.-August Herr
mann, chairman Of the national COM
mission, following the calling off of
the proposed players strike, by rea-
son of the settlement in the Kraft
case, said:
There is more behind this than is
apparent now. 1t is very strange that
Z F9ultz should take occasion to threaten
z al strike at this time. He has had
meaning of section nine, which re-
lhtes to the drafting Of class A play
els, before this. and has always held
f,tb my Interpretation of it. Now that
i3nother league has started, he has
another Interpretation Of the clause.
"Fultz's methods are those Of a
walking delegate. Some time ago I
{ had a misunderstanding with Fultz
+, regarding the qualification Of players
conferred with him and other major
league men in a New York hotel. He
told me then in the presence of a
dozen witnesses that q player who be-
came a member OF a league other
(. than a protected league vas automati-
oally suspended from the Players
fraternity. I asked him what he
meant by a protected league and he
gaid any league protected by organized
e. ~oSoc@2A AtAC llSAI uoS, dltCl - ~
guilt of this conference became pub
! lie, my version was denied in the pa
PIERS and I went to see. him again.
.,When@Is asked him about the printed
statements that I had misguided him
he told me he had said nothing, and
that my construction of the situation
was correct. I was not satisfied with
this, however. and when I returned
home I wrote him a letter, going over
the points carefully n asking a re-
ply in writing. This I received and
have on file, and the letter says in
. substance that my version is correct"
Would Like to Be shown.
John J. McGraw, manager Of the
New York National league club, which
is playing here, while discussing the
= II would rather have seen the mat
ter put through as planned, just to
see If the players would GO on a strife.
II believe Kraft's claim was all
right. but the news Of the settlement
Of the case is not especially pleasing,
because I preferred to see what the
players would really do. I would
nave an idea of how the players stand
in: this matter. My personal opinion
is that the players would not have
struck. I think the bulk of our men
would have remained loyal and that
throughout the league there would not
be more than 10 or Is per cent of the
players who would strike. When the
ball park is closed there is no income
for the ball players-and the players
do not relish that condition very
much"
Harmony May Not Prevail.
1t was learned, hat certain club
OWnnY1 Of fho A M orin o '. Loo ~, oro
not certain that peace and harmony
Will prevail between organized base
ball and the players fraternity in the
future The belief was expressed that
sooner or later there would be a strug-
gle between players and magnates for
control Of professional baseball and
that the settlement of the Kraft case
was only p~ostponing the inevitable.
Fultz Makes Statement.
President David L. Fultz Of the fra
ternfty, issued a statement after the
adjustment Of the Kraft ease in which
he said:.
The Kraft controversy has been
settled to the satisfaction Of the play
ers and we trust to the satisfaction&of
the magnaes as we'll. Kraft goes back
to Newark under his old contract and
the club is to pay his back salary. He
Is to join h Newark team in Proyi-
dence today.
THE fraternity is greatly pleased at
the outcome, and wishes to publicly
express its appreciation Of the square.
manly way in which Mr.. Ebbets has
faced the issue. Although we could
not know how the result would be ac-
complished. W. have felt all along
that when the magnates got together
and looked into the case, they would
realize that we were, absolutely right
n would see that we got justice.
The players deserve every credit