Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-01
KANSAS CITY. .FEDERALs'
FATE VERY UNCERTAIN
President Madison Says He Is Not
Sure About the Packers Future.
Will Not Stand for Money LOSS.
MUST RAISE ANOTHER 800, 900
whoa Bill" Phillips Arrives Mt In
dfanapolis and Starts Shaping Up
Hoosiers' Team-After First Base
man McInnis.

KANSAS CITY. December 3l-It has
not been definitely decided that Kan
sas City will remain in the Federal
League.
This is the statement made by c. c.
Madison. president of the club when
asked If the assertion by certain par
ties that it is positively settled the
club will remain were true. The team
Will not stay unless 100000 can be
raised by the stockholders to assure
lrcsident Jim Gilmore and the other
m;n,Snates MAJ rate, that the Packer Company
tai TO carry ii through tho season of
isl5 despite any lack of attendance
that may occur.
1T is not certain that the team will
remain. said President Madison. That
mater ina, IS Just as unsettled as it was
writer's, who had no authority for
making any positive statement that the
Lean Lean, would or would not remain here
the stockholders OF the Packers were
not willing. and therefore the deal was
men backing the club We can keep it
II we want it, There is no question but
| IN inc Federal circuit. but we are not
going TO keep ii If we do not think il
WI, w,,i pr9Te paving venture. We are
club cannot be self-sustninlng then
hkanshS haa CITY is not a major league
ohSebnll city, and is not big enough for
Two ciubs. Last year conditions were
such that II could not be determined
positively that this city, will not sup
II VIII under better conditions. but /
am but one Of the stockholders.
cXpect this matter to be definitely
settled In the next two weeks ! also
expect President Gilmore To visit us
about about the middle Of January. BY that
We must raise 100000 If the franchise
| Is retained. We have not tried very
hard to do this TO date and believe that
We can accomplish ii IL we want to.
! There are a lot of things to be settled
before a definite decision is made
Inc annual meeting of the stock
place January u.
II;NDIATIAl,poLIs, IND. December 81.
the H9osiers. arrived here from his
nome in Charlero. Pa, prepared to
Seive a, once into the work of shaping
For the last few weeks Whoa Bill has
been dividing his time between base
nal and his mercantile business in
Charleroi. but from now until the club
Is ready to start South for spring
training he will stick close to the
grea' @ natl national pas'ime. During the
leader expects TO line up all players
on his club roster now outside the
fold that he has decided to carry next
season and to decide definitely on n
training camp.
According TO Phillips there is abso-
lutely no doubt about any of last years
club members with the exception of
out Fielder Ed Roush, who for some
time, has been listed as holdout
Koush wants more money and 1t is
likcly that he Will be brought into the
iol4 on a compromise basis. There is
little likelihood that he will figure in
a trade, although efforts in that direc-
tion recently were made by the Chicago
club.
Aside from first base and the addition
OF a southpaw pitcher and another out
fielder. Phillips will stand pat on his
last seasons lineup. Whoa Bill init :
mated that he had something up his
sleeve In regard to the initial sack,
hIt was not AZ liberty to make known
lis plans at this time. He admitted that
negotiations had been under way
through an indirect source whereby
the Hoosicrs might obtain Stuny Nc
lEniS. star first sackcr for the Phila
nclphia Athletics, and intimatcd that
these negotiations had not fallen
star still had the Indianapolis offer
under consideration. Whoa Bill how
ever, is known to have other plans re-
garding first base that may prove a
surprise =
During his stay in INDIANAPOLIS Phil
i;ps expects to get together with Pres
ident J. Edward Krause on the Ques-
bad weather encountered T M shast iass OF year she
Phillips thinks we'll Of Wichita Falls.
| Tex, but it is more likely that the
club VIII pitch Its spring camp AZ
some point In Florida, where one or
two sites are now under consideration.