New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-28
CHICAGO DREAMS
PEACE IS NEAR
IN BASEBALL
Tale That Sinclair Will
Buy Giants, However,
Rifles Hampstead.
By JEROME BEATTY.

Chicago has entered its guess as TO
how peace will be brought about be-
tween the Federal League and organized
baseball, and the surmise. according TO
organized baseball. Is all wrong.
1t seems certain that before another
horal horseshoe is presented to a man.
sger or another mayor pitches ball,
opening a season, the warning factions
will have como 10 some understanding.
But according to the principals, the
fight still has several rounds to go.
The Chicago tale was &c the erect
that Harry Sinclair, owner OF the New
ark Fcdernls, would buy the Giants. The
National and Federal league clubs In
Brooklyn, 81. Losis. Pittsburgh aad
Chicago, according 20 the yarn, are 70
consolidate. The Buffalo Feds will JOIN
with the Buffalo lnternationals, and the
Kanaas City Feds will be Welded with
the Kansas City American Association
club, while the international League
will return 10 Baltimore. That's the
way Chicago tells i.
John X. Tener, president OF the Ma
tional League, said last night that there
was not a word OF truth in the story.
Harry n. Hampstead. owner OF the
Giants, asserted that Harry Sinclair,
millionaire, had not enough money to
buy the Giants, and that no person had
made any sort Of nm offer for the club.
Mr.. Hampstead is i'll, and his state
ment was made through John Is. Foster.
At the Federal League Offices 1t was
said that peace was the last thing the
independents were seeking.
The only statement that to any degree
implies that there may be some truth
in the story is from August Hermann,
chairman of the National Commission.
When seen in Cincinnati yesterday and
asked about the report Hermann said;
al can say nothing; or, rather, | have
nothing TO say. But it is story worth
printing"
Whether Hermann thought 1t was
worth printing as a tale showing great
imaginative genius or because II was
TO some degree true, The Associated
Press fails to state.
"Slim" Love, a lefthander. about six
and one-half feet tall, is the mysterl,
Gus pitcher the Yankees have drafted
and whose name. for fear the Federals
would get him, they have kept secret.
Love is with the Los Angeles Pacihc
marvel. Last year he was The most Ell
fective regular pitcher in the Coast
League. He allowed an average of only
1.56 runs per nine-inning game.
Washington tried him two years ago,
but sent him back to the coast for
more seasoning.
The Yankees are beginning TO worry
about Love. Although they have sent
him a dozen or more kilograms, he has
not yet forwarded his signed contract
A wear ago Washington secured from
Los Angeles the title to Ehmke,
phenom. but Ehmke never reported TO
Clark Griffith. Instead he signed with
the Buffalo Federals, much 70 Griifth's
relief, for Ehmke turned out to be
fivver.
The Yankees want Love, however,
and still are hoping that he will join
them lie has signed an agreement to
plsy with New York, but 10 hesitatlng
about putting his name on the contract
Love, they say, is inconstant.
Christopher Mathewson was in the
Yorkville police court yesterday
charged with leaving his motor car IN
front OF the Imperial Hotel and block
ing three truckloads OF coal for wnlch
the Imperial's cellar hungered.
Matty said he guessed he was guilty,
and Magistrate Barlow said the guess
was right.
Sentence was suspended.
Ban Johnson ha- warned players be
longing to organized baseball that they
must not play with the Feds. Buck
Weaver and Jim Scott. of the White
Sox. took part in an exhibition game IN
Watseka. III. and played against a
team which included Grover Gilmore,
of the Kansas City Federals, and Philip
Chouinard, formerly Of the Tip Tops.
Ban doesn't say what he will do to
the PLAYERS who thus jeopardize their
professional standing.