Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-06
iE FiREaRAMD OF
 THE FEDERAL LEAGUE.
6toyan the Cause of Federais Beeom-
 inG a Aationa5 jrstitation.

Last month fn a well known nsaga- zine Jos Tinker made two base hit. This is no eefract10n from Joe, who is an excellent fellow and a good friend. But in this article. which, by, tine way, 7 was entitled Putting Oyer the Fed sral League, there is no mention of 1 another player who made a home run | some time prior to J0e'S two baggeF without Eet1ng much for himself in the shape of laurel wreaths. floral hoxseshoes and loaad metallic applause fro<p the steam calliope, says a writer i'm tte Basehall Magazine.
 What about it, Joe2e That's what Eou say the players asked you. Ever hear of a tall, tanky. long Hnlbed first haEen1an. a man with a career stTik- tr1giy like your own. a man who came from your home town, Kansas City, who played on the same city League ] nf W1hfcb you were a member in the old days. who. while younger than yourself has had a much longer and maOEe brilliant service as a major league manager than your own, who cast in his fortunes with the Federal league while you were openly in the employ of organized baseball, and whose advice and example had no little weight in inducing you yourself to sign? In short, i'll all the smoke of putting over the Federal league, who sBtaEted the conf1a@Tation?
 , Who StFode forward at one of the decisive moments in baseball history when the light of new enterprise was S56ickering to the point of utter extinc- Sfion and by his forceful personality, Tesolute courage and dogged persist 4ence set the circuits a,blaze with a new enthusiasm? Who is today, after the league is an acknowledged reality, fhe keeneSt, most aggressive member fin that little baseball band of soldiers -ef fortune Who, in short is the fire brand of the Federal leagae7
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 ou may disagree with George Stow all in his attitude on certain things You may regret that he has acted in quite SD 1npu1Bive a way on occasion, but Fou cannot help admiring the man EaT his sterling honesty. his courage, and his fxity of purpose. He is one of the most picturesque characters in ba seban, a man generous to a fault free handed, democratic, without a possible trace of snobbishness in his popular favor who is irnpuls4ve to the point of rashness. but whose very faults have won him a strong popu- larity among his fellow athletes.
 The story of StDvalFs encouragement from organized baseball is the story of Gne beginnings of the Federal league e national fnstituticn.N It was the met day Of October, 1918. that Stovail went to Indianapolis to attend the mo- mentous meeting where the new league tAunch60 1ofth on ltS career of expaT1- sion, He went there with the fixed purpose of Investigating for himself fine merits of the case with what he considered the n1istreat tnlent of organ~ fzed baseball fresh in his memory. Ac- cordfnS to the laws of the baseball HFOrzd. he was the property of the St, Louis American league cluh from the tnanagement of which club he had been deposed. At that time not play CT had broken his reserve contract etovall was both player and manager of proved ability whose peculiar mis- fortune if had been to be robbed of the hest fruits of his laboFs the mo- rnenf they seemed ripe for the harvest He attended that memorable meeting where the franc hises were given to Baltimore and Buffalo and the league fairly launched in eastern territory, and he signed a contract to manage 8 club in ths Federal league, locality net Ppecffed. 1t was nearly two months later that Tinker, under somewhat similar circumstances. made his his toric entry.
 StoxaH, more than any other man, nas conducted a persistent fight for me Federal league by an apparent dis regard of written contracts. He has peen lnStfHHentad in involving the Baseball world among others ia tive HOtsz5ls legal tangles, that of Earl Hamilton Of St Louis and Indian Chief Johnson of Cincinnati.
 These cases have been the source of tnofe criticism of the Federal league man anything e1ese that has happened tn its eyenffui history.