New Britain herald., 1914-08-29
'D|SCORD IS FOUND
 IN PLAYERS FRAT
Athletes ard Kspj Would hol
 Have Core Oul on Strike.

Documentary proof that at least | two major league teams would not l have gone out on strike with the
 other members of the Baseball Play CTS Fraternity on July 22 is furnished for the first time herein. 1t is an open street that the teams referred to in President David l.. Fultz's bulletin issued just after the strike had been averted by the settlement of the fam ous Kraft case were the Athletics
 and the Cleveland Maps. who were playing in Philadelphia at the time.
 It is a we'll known fact that the Attn letics never have been in sympathy with Fultz's ideas. It will also be re- called that last winter Eddie Collins and Frank Baker were suspended by Fultz for non-payment of dues.
 In the bulletin, which is published ] below, it will be noticed that Ira 1 Thomas of the Athletics together with l Joe Jackson and Ray Chapman of the l Maps and Vean Gregg, recently trad l ed by the Maps to the Red Sox, was l expelled from the fraternity for | similar reason right after the strike l had been called off It is also worth | noting that Fultz, in his bulletin, ad- | vised the players to buckle down to real work, at the same time practi- | cally admitting that reduced patron ! age means smaller pay for the ath- letes. Here is Fultz's bulletin dated
 July %: ...#
 Bulletin No. 1c, July 25, 1914. | Tt is useless to state here the re- l suit of the Kraft case as every player | knows that already. The adjustment
 was perfectly satisfactory to Kraft
 and the fraternity. MT. Ebbets
 should gain in the eyes of the public
 and of the players as being the only
 magnate who had enough sand to ad- 1 init Organized Baseball was wrong. The papers seem to recognize in the outcome a great victory for the fra ternity. It is a great victory, more than anything else in that it shows 1 the boys they can stick and that there 1 is a strong bond of cooperation grow ing up among them.
 i You can take it from me that had 1 it been necessary to resort to a strike
 there would have been just one game
 played. You have fooled a lot of l people and you have won the ad-
 miration and respect of the entire
 sporting world, including the fair minded magnate. July 22 was the ball players Fourth of July.
 We were right, boys, and we won.
 We will always win when we are I right But we have got to be right
 for that makes all the difference in
 the world. Now that the thing is over
 I feel that we ought to get down to
 business and do all we can to build
 up the game. This is a bad year
 when that old turnstile doesn't click | they don't pay the coin.
 The following players have been
 expelled for non-payment of dues: ] Vean Gregg, Ray Chapman and Joe 1 Jackson of the Cleveland Americans,
 and Ira Thomas of the Atheletics. | Players with the ten day clause l out of their contracts are again
 warned, if transferred, to insist upon | having it struck out of the contract. | Very recently a player failed to do ] this and shortly after signing his new 1 contract he was told that if he would 1 not consent to a reduction - l per month he would be released.
 Southern league members will be
 required to pay for the season August | dues of $1.50 only. Judge Kavanaugh l informs us that he will be very glad | to give all players in the Southern 1 league copies of their contracts. We are now in correspondence with him about a certain clause and inasmuch as the season is so nearly over, we -