The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-03


 owned property estimated at one mil lion dollars in value. To lose any of the players at this time of the year, just on the eve of a playing season, would be a disadvantage; it would be impossible to measure in dollars and cents. On the cross-eX- animation by Mir. Wilmington, he told that the clubs of the National league divided the gate receipts equally dur ing the whole of the season, the home team getting all the grand stand money.
 James Viox, one of the players to whom Camnitz had made an induce ment to leave tie Pittsburg club, was called as a witness. He stated that
 he was in the billiard room of the Eastman when Happy" Holmes sent for him and told him that Howard Camnitz wanted to see he and Me Quillan They went where he was, to the Texas saloon, and there met Camnitz He said Camnitz told him that lie represented the Federal lea
 que and that he had been sent here to get Viox and McQuillan He swore that Camnitz then offered him $3,50O then $i,O00, then $4.50O and then 5000. He said he told Camnitz that he was under contract to Pitts
 burg and could not consider an of fer from any other club.
 George McQuillan evidently did not
 receive such extended inducement.
 He testified that he had been sent
 for and that he went to Camnitz, and
 he told Camnitz that he had a con tract with the Pittsburg club q said
 that l had signed and that I was treated pretty square, He understood
 me and the matter went no further" testified McQuillan. McQuillan said however that Camnitz asked him if
 5000 would tempt him to jump the contract
 Vioxs contract calls for s2.40O and the contract McQuillan holds with pittsburg calls for $3,G00.
 The next witness was Judge Wm. ] league, and one of the foremost men in baseball. He testified 10 his in- formation of baseball affairs gener- ally. He said he was both a fan" and a "Aend." He had aeen interest ed in baseball since he was a college
 player and for many wears he had been at the head of the Southern league He told of how there is con tract relations between the players and the clubs, necessary to the great
 American game, and how the clubs themselves are bound in some things under a national agreement. Clause z, whiih contains the ten day release,
 President Kavaneugh said did not
 work any hardship to the players. On the cross examination he said
 that they have national agreement to facilitate she advancement of ball
 players, to make it so Dhat good player may be advanced and can not
 be held back by some minor league,
 which might have him under con tract. He said there was no such thing as a blacklist" in organized
 baseball, as the term is commonly
 used He said though that any man who would jump a contract was not
 entitled ot much consideration among men engaged in the great American
 game. He told of the relation of the major and minor clubs, of their meth ods of handling players, and that with
 rare exception did any player ever suffer abuses, and if he did there was
 a court of arbitration, and that there
 the player could get justice. He re-
 cited the case of Mordecai Brown as
 one in proof that if a player is not treated exactly right by a club he
 can secure redress. He had been a
 member of the national board of arbi-
 tration for nine years.
 At the conclusion of his evidence Attorneys Wilmington and Ryan held
 consultation with Camnitz and de-
 cided not to put any evidence in, and
 the arguments were taken up before the court.