New-York tribune., 1915-10-31
Baseball Players Fra
ternity ContemplateS No
Demand on Clubs.
NO MONOPOLY IN
JUMPING CONTRACTS
Magrates as Likely to Offend as
PLAYERS - Salaries Are
Not Inflated.
Bv JEROME BEATTY.

PA, theee nerve wrccking times when
.,crv baseball magaatc's soul Is sogGy
,.b sorrow. David Fultz, president oil
.-o baseball Players Fraternity
..,ce forth with q promise that Will
.- % fc.st one ray Of sunshine into
... dark. dans lives the macaates are
rrt. 81. not going 20 make any de-
...~I. q auv sort when the NaNonai
.o-.r,,ssIon meets ncxt month ne
fr,torri.y viii not ask that rule oe
...r-ca nor that resolution be
.eorfad II the magnates nave
.4Ir. winter, Fultz viii have no par,
.uocs that mean that the fraternity
,rtIrelv satisfied with baseball CON
..-.a-s2" Fultz was asked yesterday.
-g- no means" ne answered. Nv @
........ feol that conditions in baseball
... such that uov would be bad time
t. make any more demands upon o.!
ed baseball
T., report Of the president 20 inc
s~c thousand members viii he ISSUED
.evt week. and In it Fuitz VIII yen
" the fifty or more cases M "n'cn
.srt.act difficulties Of bascbaA play
O., have been settled by the fraternity.
,-e more likely 10 jump contracts than
40 Tho plavers. And all the contract
-rmuing magnates are not IN 0rgahizeu
baseball.
"Narnates have made many com
.l.irts because players have not 0o-
.erved the letter of the contract, but
chose club owners themselves are not
IN fair. PLAYERS under lrorc!ad con-
tracts have been asked 20 accept a
lower salary. and when they refused
.bcv we're released. The fraternity is
protecting the men In su"h cases my
rerort will show with what eood sue
cess. r,.,
I'VE have no members in the Federal
Teague. and no move has teen made
toward including them IN the member
shin. We do not, therefore. have any
dealings regarding contracts with the
independents
The public has an exaggerated id1ea
e the average salary that MAJOR
LEAGUE baseball players arc paid ac-
tordinc 20 Fultz.
II should say that $4,000 a year is
,bclt the average" he asserted. You
hear a great deal about the huge sal
,,.ios that ere paid Ty Cobb and Waiter
Johnson. but few persons stoy 10 thinh
.ha. q man playing rght beside
may be getting only about one-teh'h
rs much. A great many major ieaguers
are not making more than SOU
month. which is $500 for the playing
season.
ing 10 do with trying 10 increase the
salaries Of players. Many persons
have Il mistaken notion about this.
4
signing the contracts and IN getting
eli the rights that are theirs.
Here's baseball problem the solu-
tion 20 which even umpires disagree
upon. 5
Two are out. runners are on second
and third and two strikes and three
balls are recorded against the batter.
The runners start with the pitch and
the batter hits grounder to the
third baseman. The runner coming
from third scores a moment before
the third baseman touches for the
the third out, the runner coming from
second. Realizing that he should have
made the play at first, thus preventing
the run from scoring, the third base
man throws 20 first and gets the ball
there ahead Of the runner. making
fourth out Does the run scorer
II the play to first had been the third
out the run, Of course, would not nave
counted. But the score was made on
third out. which was not force nor
was the batter extinguished for the
third out before he reached first base.
Our guess would be that the run
scored. for the inning ended when the
third baseman touched the runner for
the third out.