Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-03
SURPLUS CONE IN
TWO YEARS. FIGHT
pgpoeT oF NATIONAL BASEBALL
COMMISSION SHOWS TIE
Hfcp4 COST oF WAR
Af-ss~s $4,000 E<psness fer Stssr-
n-ys' fees ard otnsr it-rns
&c csrs F-da

Al fesa OF hoE the baseball war
has eaten INTO the financial resources
Of Organized baseball Is obtained sy a
Rance az n. Annual report % the IA
ffonaI eomullssion which has Just beea
issued and which gives the rscefg;s
anf elsb1ras-uents up % Iau. !. 1913
Accordfrs % ths report. one nusi
form The coucIusiou that the rational
csumlssfoz o. iu bad straits az me
preset tine because on tus frsE o.
th@ year y showed a baiarce % only
81 4ssoT. since that tine ~ has had
ths sxp@nss o.; th@ biz az suit before
Judge Lands. whir1 must have eaten
ND nat balance and o. io- more.
on Jan g. 1914 me national c1tar-ls-
sion report showed a bank balance %
szT.T0s o. on the year previous 90
that % showed gfs.gGs %. r. tWo
years time 10 has Diminished over
as. 900 and the reason ts attorneys
fees
NAV sees q Attorney
In the ftsmfxrd account 90 sEpert..
lures durtnE the year 1919 there 40
pear g separate items witch can BE-
nafhinr else than fees and sNpers~s
% attorneys Almost en- were paid f1
fgIis EinEaad and John Calvin. Che
too Cincinnati aff9rr@Ft Who arr 49,
counsel Cor fhe national rouuissi1r.
The total % these 90 items amount t1
Stf z1s g. One lfTr1 vas a. small. rs
so Is and the largest one vas 3z1ss.
Thaf total 90 gtf 1855 vas r1r en-
draaEed from ere con mission s golfers
because ~ tts war ta one place a
an tsm % g. sg1 20 paid .1 H r. John
son ore or f1e ccur.issiar ure a"ra.
lt a. simply labeled .rEpr-sae lr
no other rrur d.1 fr~ Ira1eoa ever
pas Ia an expense account .se t.at
because Dol arVer Bad rerae .1r tI
speuf money Ufe tEar before Har-
baps part 81 F m1I have been .ar
LEGAL advice
lean s1 IrtrrratIe-al
Bf there were sru three ua Items
on th~ fisf which never appeared there .
before. Oh our place .t reads -E q.
BARROW. frtrruaf.anai IF1Esr loan. S.. .
COO That occurred early Dol Sep
teruber About $500 weeks later. a..
cordlns to tFe report there vas ar.
ether loan made to tfr HarroU frr
the International tsas1~. this time %
sesA0. ard sffI ir another place. Gated .
dee 6. is an item OF 81 us rr labeled. .
'B o. Johasou. rrruudrr Hgnl,1 c.as L
This Indicates That Wr f1HEaor may 2
have helped The Buffalo irtrruat.gaaf .
league club co that extent and then .
cot bis money back from the com
mission NIt1scther that makes "a
total % stt.2f1 90. which seems '0 /.
have been loaned fo che distressed /.
league The comwiF-
sion may hold notes for that amount I
and NAV recover Do iu the dim and T.
distant future
Besides che tUo Cincinnati ntf0r
reys. Calvin and EtrEead there we're
~ least four others and perhaps
half dozen others. who were ENGAGED /.
20 defend 0rEanixed ball Dol the big
suit before Judge lands in January
The attorneys fees for that service
must have been enormous. but OF
course DO not show IN the report up
90 Jan l. o. looks ne 81 the national
cornrrission must bc Elm the hole ar
The present time and Tor the hrst time I.
IN IT, sxistcuce b.
Federais Rlso f1 3aa way
OF course, if the Federal league were I
10 show rs books 30 H. probable the
amounts OF money paid Co attorneys I
would equal or exceed the amounts
paid By orzauixs- ball Moreover the
amounts paid players Tor salaries was ,
90 a marked desrce iasL
lsr. n vas the greatest season ttss
,iaysrs and lawyers ever had Ia