The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-22
FULTZ TRYING TO STIR UP
SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS
Hobnobbing With Fraternity Agents as They Visit Here
Union Strike Would Tickle Magnates, but
Players Would Ignore Order.

continued, us a corker. Just think that
after six weeks play only five and one
half games separate the first and last
clubs. Why every team in the league
has an excellent chance for tho PEN
nant from what has been show so far.
The field Is 80 we'll balanced that any
club which gets out and hustles to the
extent OF its capabilities Is likely to
be returned champion"
Mr.. Tener was asked II any new
movement on either side had been at
tempted OF late toward a settlement
Of the baseball war.
Now, in all Justice to common
sense" he answered. why should or
for peace"
How could the Federal League
benefit us by being accepted into our
organized body? Cerainly II could not
| come as a third major league. Would
not such n move be ridiculous. In the
face OF the fact that the public has
shown emphatically In Its attitude to-
ward the independents that a third ma
jor circuit Is not necessary or even
desirable?
II think the public has settled hat
question to every ones satisfaction with
the possible exception OF the Federal
promoters. IL lS CptIlInbn htoWI thk
that tho Gilmore promotion this year
has proved a greater failure than q
year ago. The only business hat ia
being done to speak Of 10 in Newark
on Sundays. Interest. whatever theirs
was. has fallen of almost completely
in Chicago. Buffalo. st. Louis and Kansas
City. We could not possibly beneht by
any compromise With the outlaws
Compromise simply would saddle their
TRIALS and fluctuations upon the shoulders
OF organised baseball"
Tho inevitable has happened in Cieve-
land. the homo of many managers
Charles Somers has relieved Joe Bir-
mingham Of the management Of the In
dians. No one has been named as ye,
to succeed Birmingham.
Cleveland for many ear seems tc
have been q managerial hoodoo. Bir-
mingham got the club in 1913. after
Harry Davis. the renowned lieutenant
OF Connie Mack. proved a dismal fail
ure. Joe made quite a splash at nrs
but last year fell into the ways OF
the common lot and finished last. He
started well this spring. and for a time
II was believed that In the transfer
OF Lajoie to Philadelphia the root of dis.
content and dissens!on had beer re.
moved. 1t seems. however. that ths
team 10 so disrupted and disorganized
that nothing but a complete ehakeur
from the management down will effect
a change for tho better,
Connie Mack has his eye upo Carroll,
the sterling third baseman OF Ford
ham. Tho leader OF the Athletics does
not relish q cellar position after leadins
the procession so long. He 10 doing
n lot of scout duty on his own hook
and has Ira Thomas n other play
ers busy on the same lines whenever
they can be spared.
The ~postponsment Of the second
game with the Pirates gives the Giants
no lesA than six double headers &c
date. At the Polo Grounds there arr
two postponements with Boston and
one each with the Cubs and Pirates
New York owes a game in Philadelphia
and another in Brooklyn. P~ittsburg's
first ~postponement will be played here
as part OF a double header on July 20.
Charles II. Ebbets improved the rainy
afternoon to place Southpaw Sherrot
Smith on his disability list. Smith
turned his ankle in practice Tuesday
and the sprain proved more seriou.
than at frst supposed. Through Eb'
bets's action Smith will not count ir
the club roster limit before he is n
for service again.
President william r. Baker OF tn,
Phillies and Manager Miller Higgins
OF the Cardinals mer In Presiden'
Tener's office yesterday.
I'm going to be up where your clut
IL within the next couple OF weeks
Higgins announced seriously.
Not II ! know it, Baker answered
"If 1t hadn't been for injuries th'
Phillies now would he so far In from
you'd never think OF catching us"
Looks as II every club in the Nationa
League figures the flag a cinch thii
year. No n can convince Herzol
his team Is not the best. McGrav
figures he will fight to the wire will
%Stallings. while Stallings says he ha'
the cakewalk OF his life before him
once Evers gets back. Fred Clarke ma
absolute faith In his Pirates. Rose
Brcsnahan can see nothing but thu
Cubs. while c. II. Ebbets refuses I,
take back his early spring pennant pre-
dictions for tho Dodgers.