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decisions in the seventh inning robbed
them of at least one run.

decisions in the seventh inning robbed
them of at least one run.
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Among the crowd at the game
were many Newarkers, and some of
the local rooters visited the Hotel
Martinique, where the team had "a
dinner and elected Green captain of
the nine for next season. 1t was
Green's scratch hit which scored the
run for the Tigers and it was Green's
fine catch and pretty throw that
prevented Yale from scoring a run
in that misunderstanding third in
ming. Yale also elected her captain
last night. She named Middlebrooll
as her leader for next year
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Clarence Kraft says he will quit
baseball before he will go back to
Nashville, whittier he has been or
dered by the National Commission.
Kraft also says that Dan Fultz,
president of the Players Fraternity,
intends to fight his case to the limit.
The matter should be an easy one 10
settle. but spite work, it seems, has
entered into it. The Nashville club
hasn't any particular use for the
player, but it is said that the owners
have a grievance against Charley Eb-
bets, sr.. principal owner of the New
ark club. The outcome of the affair
1t will show just how powerful the
National Commission is, and it will
also show the strength of the Players
Fraternity. According to baseball
law, Kraft belongs to Nashville and
Nashville should have him, if she
wants him. But, for the sake of the
game, and particularly at this time,
when war talk is killing the game,
| Nashville might have accepted the
! numerous excellent offers for the
player. 1t is not too late. A COM
promise of some sort should be made.
! Organized baseball is suffering enough
at the hands of the outlaw Feds,
without having internal strife in its
own circles.
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The third big league is a bloomer
and the international League mag
mates who attended that meeting over
in New York last Saturday we're
either badly fooled or else are trying
/ Dunn and Jake Stein went into the
meeting with their hearts hanging
! low, and they came out of it pleased
to the highest. Dunn went back to
Baltimore, assured, it is said, that he
would be taken care of, and Stein
was also told not to worry. In order
TO make things appear all right to
the public, the cock-and bull third big
league story was sprung. The real
story though, is another story en-
tirely. The third big league yarn was
a hoax, pure and simple. 1t was be-
lieyed, though, that it would be taken
seriouely and create a favorable i'm
preston. Instead, it has caused the
biggest laugh yet in baseball. The
Feds are choking with mirth and it
really looks as If the regulars might
get into a fight among themselves
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Baseball throughout the country is
lin a precarious condition. Few, If
any, of the clubs are making money
and some of them are losing so much
that they are not able to stand it.
The clubs in the West are just as
badly off as are the clubs in the
East, and on top of all this to come
the news that the National Commits
sion contemplated wreeking the In
ternational League and the American
Association, in order to form thirc
big league didn't set at all well or
the stomachs of those who were tC
be left out in the cold. Such a movt
was playing right into the hands o
the Feds, and it was one of the yer.
few mistakes that Ban johnson ha