South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-06
SHAMEFUL FIGHT
BEING WAGED ON
FEDERAL LEAGUE
Organized Baseball Accuses
New League of Same Kind of
Fight They Once Tried
Themselves.
BY FRANK G. AENKE.

NEW YORK, April 6.-What a fe-
rociOus. cannibalistic crowd Of per
sons those Federal leaguers are-if
you are 70 take the word OF organized
baseball bandits staunchest subsidized
friends for IL
Prexy Jimmy Gilmore and al his
heutenants ought 20 be thrown into
jail, starved into "A pitiful condition
and then chopped into little bits Of
pieces. according 20 the views Of some
OF those mentioned above.
It's rather laughable-and dis
gusting-the methods being used by
some persons TO heckle the Federals
and mako them seem ridiculous in the
minds of the baseball public The
Federals. taking II from the .. =.
people, are composed OF Joke ball
PLAYERS, joke magnates. and joke
bsnk-rolls
The latest method Of attacking the
Feds is 10 rise up and shrek Shame,
shame at the Feds because they are
threatening 10 do Just exactly what
the organized baseball people have
done-sign up men who are under
contract.
Gilmore and his crowd announced
at the start that they would not deal
with any man under contract
Attack Reserve Clause
We viii recognize contracts" said
Gilmore. I'VE are after only those
men who are held by the reserve
clause clause that we do not con-
slider legal"
And Gilmore and his crowd stuck
20 that decision. They played fair.
Even the persons most antagonistic
10 the Federal cause cannot deny that
in moments when they want to stick
20 straight facts
But. in retaliation for these fair
methods. organized baseball started 10
use unfair tactics. The PhiIlies lured
Killifer back into their fold after he
had signed up a Federal contract
They diSregarded the contract that
Is legal and binding. The Cleveland
Maps made OvertGres to Pitcher
Handing after ne had signed "A Fed
eral contract and has accepted Fed
eral advance money
Tt was then-and only then. that
the Feds announced that they would
not play as fair as they had in the
past-and that they would begin 10
make offers To me who were under
contract
And now those persons who are so
closely allied TO the organized base
ball people are frsHiflg into print with
remarks such as these
The fact that the Feds are trying
20 sign up Organized Players who
are under contract Will be a black eye
for them. These methods are absO-
lutely unfair and viii not be tOlerat-
cd by the baseball public. The pub
lie demands fair play. The public
insists that the Feds play fair as the
organized baseball people have done.
The action Of federal agents in at
tempting To get players 10 jump their
contracts with organized clubs is
something the public viii not stand
for. IL Is an outrage"
The baseball public as we know il.
IS quite too fair. too honest. and too
Intelligent 10 pay much attention TO
these shrieks OF outrage" The
baseball public doesn't need micro
scope 20 see through things. and it
doesn't even need its specs to see
that organized baseball with its back
against the wall is attempting in
every way to pull the wool over the
eyes OF the public in the hope that
the public will believe their garbled
statements and thus stay away from
the Federal parks
America is a land OF fair-minded
citizens It's a land where the peo-
pie like game. fair fighter And as
we view e. the public seems to think
that the FedeTals have made a pref