Evening star., 1914-03-15
FEDERALS HAVE
MUCH BACKING
Gilmore Says There Are Mil
lions in Real Money to Carry
on the Fight.
WHOLESALE RAID ON CUBS
is SAID TO BE PLANNED
And Report Has It That Players
Are Willing to Listen to
Entieements.

CHICAGO, March 14.-Rcports from
Of the Chicago National League club
would listen to offers from the Federal
League. should the base ball war talk de-
velop into contract-jgnorng contest to-
day agitated the followers of base ball.
With much detail, though with care
full elimination of names OF players said
to be involved, dispatches from the Cubs
training camp related that six star play
ers had been approached with offers from
the Federals and that they had listened
to the ENJOYS and afterward had freely
declared that if given more money they
would leave the National League.
IF the condition in other training
camps of organized base ball is the same
as here the dispatches said, THE Fed
erals will have no difficulty in obtaining
major league players. 1t is only a ques-
ton of how much money they will spend
in contracts and bonuses"
Injunction Notice.
President Gilmore of the Federal
League returned to Chicago from Shreve-
port, La, just in time to be served with
notice of an injunction suit aiming to
prevent the building of the Federals'
plant here.
The summons was made returnable
April 80, and unless a temporary In
junction should be issued in the mean
time the grandstand will be built and
the team playing before the hearing is
called. The Federal injunction suit
against William Killifer, charged with
having Jumped u contract with the
local club is to be filed in the federal
court at Grand Rapids. President Gill
more said today, probably not later
than next Thursday.
Il would not be surprised If Killifer
Joined Tinker's team before that" said
the president.
No players who have signed contracts
with other leagues have yet been taken
away by the Federals, according to Gill
more, but he admitted that negotiations
were on between managers and several
stars. They have been given the league
permission to sign the men regardless
of their contracts and have the promise
of united backing, legal and financial.
Gilmore declared no more efforts to
reach truce would be made by his
side. His overtures to organized ball,
made three weeks ago in a personal
visit to President Johnson Of the Amer
lean League, were the last to come
from the Federals, he said.
Named His Millionaires,
President Gilmore gave out a list of
the leagues owners and hackers, which
shows. according to his figures, that
there is $50.000,000 behind the organiza-
tton. Twelve millionaires are on the
roster, he said. The wealthiest club
is that in Brooklyn. where the Wards
are credited with capital amounting to
S25.0O0.0OO.
Gilmore's list. with the millionaires
marked m" follows:
Pittsburgh-Edwin Gwinner, president
(AD: William Kerr, vice president; Will
liam Mccullough, secretary.
Buffalo-William Robertson, president
(M; Walter Mullen. vice president; F.
Cabanna, treasurer (MD; Owen Ausper-
ger. secretary.
Baltimore-Carrol Rasin, president (M)
j. s. Wilson. 3r.. treasurer CM): Harry
Goldman, secretary; Ned Hanlon.
Brooklyn-R. B. Ward, president (M3:
G. S. Ward, vice president ND: Walter
Ward. treasurer (M); John Ward, secre-
tary.
st. Louis-Ed Steininger, president;
Otto Stifel (M); Phil Ball (M).
Indianapolis. Edwin Krause, presi-
dent; John A. George Bert Mcbride, E. E.
Gates: W. h. Watkins. secretary
Kansas City-C. c. Madison, president:
S. S. Gordon; Harry Molly. secretary.
Chicaso-Charles Weeghman, president
fM; William Walker, vice president OD;
Charles Williams, secretary.