The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-20
CAN'T RETURN WHILE
I'm ON JOB--JOHNSON
Ban Says Any Man Who Deserts
League in This Fight Is
Through Forever.
EDDIE COLLINS SEwED UP
Mack Has Ironclad Option on
His Services for 1915-Tc-
ner Leaves It 10 Public.

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Organized baseball will not submit
tamely to the loss Of those players who
desert their employers on ten days notice.
Already August Hermann OF the Gin
cinnati club has begun action for In
functions to restrain Marsans and Daven-
port from playing with the Independents.
At tho instigation OF Ban johnson. Frank
Farrell will proceed Immediately IN n
similar way TO prevent the appearance
Of Hcine Schulz with the Buffalo Fed
erals.
mo player who deserts the American
League will be allowed to play with the
outlaws" said Ban johnson. mfr. Far
relFs proposed procedure Ia simplifed by
the fact that Schulz has gone with club
operating in New York State. II will be
very easy to stop him"
II do not know whether Chase really
intends to quit Comiskey." said the Big
Car. In answer to a question II am
told he has notified Charlie that no will
be through with the White Sox in a few
days. IL he does 20 over TO the enemy
he will be prosecuted as reientlessly as
anybody else II anybody should have
gratitude toward organized baseball.
Chase Is the man. He was taken back
into tho fold after he had run out on
the New York club in 1908, when Mr..
Farrell needed him most Perhaps II was
a bad thing that he wasn't kept out that
time when he cast his lot with outlaw
baseball His present behavior has taught
me one good lesson. No ono who quits
my league in this night will ever get back
so long as / am president"
Ban johnson declares that the story
from the West associating Eddie Collins
In conferences with Federal League pro-
meters Is nothing more than a publicity
dodge
collins could not leave PhiiadeIpl,ia
TIL the end OF 1918 even II ne wished to.
which he does not" said Ban. Tie Is
signed to a contract from which tho ten
days option OF release clause was stricken.
For n sum stipulated the philadelphia
club bought an option on Collinss ser
vices for the following year. 1t is true
| Collins is signed TO one year contract Z:
but the option binds him legally and
morally to Connie Mack next year -
we'll as this.
Moreover. Collins himself told me that
I he never had considered the idea of ieay-
/ Ing the Athletics. lie did not negotiate
with the Federal League. let alone sign
/ an agreement to sign with that circuit
next spring"
The American League executive de-
clares further that there will be no Fed
I eral League next spring.
| But for the fact that baseball and bet
| ting do not go hand in hand ! would
wager almost anything that Gilmore's en-
! terprise will be on the scrap heap before
August L. said he.
Ban would attribute no reason for such
| a declaration. He was so positive. how
| ever, as to hint by his attitude OF some
! secret master stroke by which he hopes 20
! fell his enemies.
! Gov Tener believes In letting the public
settle the issue between organized ana in
/ dependent baseball. OF course he stands
/ firm for the protection OF the club
rights OF the old. established Institution.
/ So long as the opposition keeps Its hands
Off major and minor league chattels,
! though. tho National executive Endorses
/ the policy OF watchful waiting.
"I believe tho public already has shown
! its sentiments AZ favorable to organized
baseball" said the Governor. I'VE APP
pear TO be doing better every day, while
| Federal League interest Is waning In every
city. There was no demand for third
| league. There was no room for II and not
enough good players for the leagues that
already had been established. The Fed
eral League promotion has cost somebody
| a lot OF money and is likely TO cost a
great deal more. But no matter how
| ruthlessly the rival magnates have scat
tered money or how loudly they have
talked more fortunes they have not been
terest. The verdict OF the public has been
passed. and that verdict Is favorable tc
the old order Of things"
President Jack Dunn OF the Baltimore
al, Iarlo thai
he could realize nearly 100000 II NJ
cared to place ten OF his best players on
the market
"The day before yesterday Charles A
Comiskey of the White Sox offered M
100000 for six men, he said. "Practi
cally every big league scout has been q
me trying to purchase some OF my men,"
Dunn would not name the players wanted
by Chicago. He spoke In such CLOWNS
terms OF a number OF his pets that cues
of Ruth, Shore. Twombly, Cree. Daniel'
ard Derrick would not be far out o
the way.
Dunn considers Shore one OF the creates
pitchers in the country. This fellow. VIII,
was once with the Giants, is almost fee
inches In height and built In proportion
Tho Baltimore magnate declares the bil
fellow has as much speed as Waite
Johnson.
The special meeting OF the Nationa
League at the Waldorf yesterday was a
tame as the conference OF the board o
directors that preceded. II there was an.
pickering tho magnate, took care tina
nothing of the sort was announced. Go,
Tener said his colleagues had decided L
walt until after last nights meeting Of tn
National Commission before tackling an.
OF the serious business. The Nations
League club presidents will reassemble a
the same place this morning at 10 O'Clock
The various clubs OF the old majo
league were represented as follows; Ne,
York. Harry n. Hampstead Brooklyr
Charles X. Ebbcts Philadelphia, william
Il. Baker; Boston, James Il. Carney an,
j. Conway Toole Pittsburg. Barney Drey
fuss Cincinnati. August Hermann an
Harry Stephens: ST. Louis, Schuyler
Britton; Chicago. Charles p Taft an
Charles II. Thomas.
President Hampstead OF the Giants en-
tertained his colleagues at luncheon. afte
which the entire band motored out to tn
game at the Polo Grounds.
Holy Cross Star Joins Cubs.
PHILADELPHIA, June 10. - Shortstol