Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
CH|FEDS TO HAVE
REAL OPPOSITION
Cubs and White Sox to Display
Counter Attractions to
Walter Johnson.
WEEGHMAN TEAM TO BE
GIVEN CONFLICTING DATES
Comiskey and Taft to Conduct Ac-
tive Campaign Against Windy
City Outlaws.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. December r.
Organized base ball is planning
an aggressive campaign against
the Chicago Federal League club.
The signing of Walter Johnson
BY Charles Weegfman will re-
suit in fight to a finish with the
White Sox and Cubs. c. A. Co
miskey fired the first gun when
he bought the release OF Eddie
Collins from the Athletics to
manage and play second base for
the White Sox. Comiskey will
obtain at least two more star
players within the next month or
so who will make the White Sox
one OF the greatest ball clubs in
the country. Meanwhile, Roger
Bresnahan, backed by the Taft
millions, has been authorized to
strengthen the Cubs at any cost.
1t is understood that the National
League men agreed to forget
Charles Webb Murphy when Taft
consented to loosen the purse
strings.
The playing schedule of the National
and American Leagues will be so ar
ranged that the Chifeds will run up
against conflicting date every Sunday
during the season at home. Weegh-
mans club on the North Side depended
almost entirely on Sunday games last
season, some of them being played
while the Cubs and White Sox were
away from Chicago. But next year
Weeghman will not be allowed to en-
JOY clear field on the Sabbath, SO
that 1t is believed his Sunday receipts
will be greatly diminished Whenever
Walter Johnson pitches for the Chifeds
at home on Sunday there will be
counter attraction strong enough to
keep many fans away from the North
side.
To Have Many Conflicts.
The big league schedules also will
give the Chifeds as many conflicting
games on week days as possible.
Comiskey and Taft are prepared to
make the hardest kind of fight on
these lines. so that the Feds will have
anything but an easy time in the
lake shore metropolis.
With the White Sox and Cubs both
pennant factors the leaders of or
ganized base ball believe that the Chi
feds. no matter how successful they
may be on the ball field. will not enjoy
the looked-for prosperity. This plan
experience of the Feds in st. Louis last
season, when they Were completely
overshadowed by the good playing of
the Cardinals and Browns. St Louis
fans realized that the Feds were not
major league so they turned their
backs just as it is predicted the Chi
cago fans will do in 1915.
There have been several important
conferences this week regarding the sit
uation in Buffalo, with the result that
the big leaguers have decided to place
as many obstacles in the path of the
Feds as possible In ST. Louis the Feds
Browns or the Cardinals each Sunday
date throughout the campaign. The
American Association will oppose the
Feds in Kansas City and Indianapolis
will pay little OF no attention to the
Feds in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and
Brooklyn, as it is believed those clubs
cannot make much Roadway.
A more aggressive policy regarding the
player situation has been adopted by the
big league magnates. They intend to
take numerous cases OF contract breaking
into the courts, and also will bring ac-
tons for heavy damages against certain
Federal League promoters. The big fell
lows admit that the Feds have surprised
them by refusing to blow up of their
own accord. Facts and figures are in
= the possession of the o. b men which
would seem to indicate certain disaster
for the Feds if they begin another play
ing season The fact that Gilmore and
his associates were ready to make peace
to mean that they still desire a COM
. promise, which will not be Forthcoming
unless they consent to be absorbed by
the class IA circuits.
Hanlon Not Satisfied.
One of the few experienced base ball
men in the Federal League is Edward
Hanlon of the Baltimore club HanIon
does not conceal his dissatisfaction
with present conditions. He loves ba Sc
ball. and is not anxious to see the
great sport killed. Hanlon admits that
the Federal League cannot succeed in
the long run. and that, even in Balti-
more, with Jack Dunn's club out of the
way. the Gilmore organization has not
come up to expectations. Hanlon also
knows that the salaries now drawn by
the ball players are too high and
that they mean heavy losses He real
ICES that another fight with organized
base ball will bankrupt many persons
Hanlon is firm believer in plan to
take the Baltimore Feds, together with
the so-called outlaws in Pittsburgh.
Buffalo and Brooklyn, into the Inter
national League: But how such a plan
feI
TO say.
When Secretary Goldman of the
Baltimore Feds signed Eddie Plank
and Chief Bender to Fed contracts re-
Gently Oriole fans rejoiced until they
learned that these noted pitchers had
been obtained by Goldman for the
D., St Louis Feds Followers of the Feds
' in Baltimore therefore began to And
much fault with Goldman. charging