Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-08
FEDERAL LEAGUE MUST
Be TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Recent Signing Of Stars Of the Dia-
mond Cause Club Owners to
Adopt New Tactics.
PLAN TO INCREASE SALARIES
Will Protect Themselves Against
Further Invasion by the Enemy.
Session To-Day Promises to BE
Full OF Action.

NEW YORK, December T.-organized
baseball has finally arrived at the con-
cluslon that the Federal League must
be taken seriously Tomorrow the
.iaSha'es or The National League. and
the members Of the National Commits
sion Will begin their sessions Mt the
Waldorf with one thought uppermost-
now to put the crusher on the Fcderals
and stop further depredations from the
foid wherein arc kept the brightest
stars In the baseball Armament
The recent signing Of Walter John.
SON chief Bender. Eddie Plank. Rube
| Vanguard and some more of tho first
flight" players, hns awakened the O.
Il. magnotes and at to-morrow's meet
ings all trades, schedules. changes In
rules etc. will be sidetracked until
the question Of successfully fighting
the Federals has been solved,
! o. II. MaEratcs Not Alarmed.
The .. Is. magnates arc not at all
alarmed. They know the Federal are
fash In tho pan. They will tell yot,
that' also. But Just the same they
are going to fight the F'ederals Just
as hard as II they were really scared,
and they ure going to give the best
| imitation of scared baseball magnat es
that ever has been given in the annals
OF the game.
Governor John Tener. president of
the parent organization in organized
baseball arrived tonight, and will be
commanding figure In all discussions.
Governor Tener arrived with a satchel
full OF denials, and after he had un-
loaded them on the reporters who met
him he discounted all OF them by has
tenlng into secret oonclave with some
OF his fellows
Governor Tener denied, first, that
any urgency existed in the situation.
lie denied that my star chamber ses-
sions were planned. He denied that
any retnlintory measures were planned
He almost denied that there was such
league as the Federal League, but lie
didn't quite deny this.
The mngnates hero seem to be of one
opinion. viz: that the recent activity
| Of the Federal League has had only
ono real aim, and that is to Brighten
organized baseball by sudden show
OF athuence, into recognition OF the
| Federal League, and when they say
that tho Federals are trying to brighten
them these blum and hearty magnates
| laugh.
Brighten US? Ha. ha. ha. haw
There Ia something about that laugh
BOY trudgtng past cemetery In the
dark with his hands deep In his pockets
and n CHEEKY" whistle issuing from
I his tlghtly-pursed lips
| Plnn TO Raise Salaries.
II further evidence Is needed to
prove that.the maEnates are not frish-
! tened by the Federals one only has
to mention the salary question. They
| are planning to raise the salaries OF
those stars Of the first magnitude who
have not jumped to the Federals.
Everybody knows that when a man Is
frightened he doesn't figure on spend
| ing lot of money.
| They say they are going to raise
these salaries so as TO protect them
| selves from the higher offers from the
Federals. and then they go right on
TO demonstrate that whom n man jumps
TO the Gilmore organization he has cut
| his throat for all time with o. b. They
don't want these remaining stars to
get In so bad with organized baseball
! that they cannot come back to II after
tho Federal blow-up. and so they arc
going to raise salaries because they
IKE these players who are still with
| them.
And by the same token they reiter
I ate that tho stars who have already
| jumped are likely 20 have 10 go to
work at some other outdoor pursuit,
such rs driving dray when the In :
evitable collapse OF the Federals comes
to pass.
Confer mt Two Hotels.
II is IN the corridors of the WAL
dorf and up at the Imperial. where the
International maFnates are holding
forth that all these early conferences
a. Hei' Out OF one or these close
confaos tonight there issued the in
FORMATION that tho court fights against
players who have violated their CON
tract obligations Will be followed by
/ even more vigorous actions against
the Federal magnates who nave per
suaded them into such violations. One
! instance. which tho magnates shy Will
form the basis for conspiracy charge
| against the Fcderals. was cited
| In this charge 1t liz said one OF the
stars OF the National League thought
Il was going TO be a hard winter. He
mad no ready cash to speak OF, and 40
he asked an advance OF $500 from his
team. He was turned 40 .vn harder
innh Oliver Twist the time ito asked
/, Table Henped VITA Gold
The player. the magnutcs allege, was
owner to call on him. This Federal
LeRguer was like the spider that in
lvfted the ny to walk In his parlor. they