The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-06
The Federals and Organized
Power Have Reached Some
Agreement in Warfare.
KAUFF CASE EXAMPLE

New York. June 5.-The dove of peace
slowly is descending and soon will rest
on the baseball world. Sixty days more.
and if nothing unforeseen happens, the
Feds and Organized Baseball will be
taking few inhales from the same pipe
Iof peace and buying each other cham
payne.
There are some who still are skepticsI
about the probability Of peace, but II
they only will analyze the events that
have transpired during the past six weeks
they will not be skeptics any longer
, With the exception Of Benny Kauff not
one player has done any jumping either
way since the season began. The Feds
have not made a single effort to grab a
ball player from Organized baseball and
the established organization has not tried
to get back a single one of its jumpers
| The disposition OF the Kauff case, COUP
led with inside facts concerning that af-
| fair. shows palmer than anything. else
that the Feds and Organized Baseball
have ceased fighting each other.
On the surface. the action Of the Ma
| tional Commission in returning Ksuff to
the Feds seems amazing. Even more
| amazing il the fact that 1t ordered the sus-
pension for one year of Dick Kinsella
Giant scout. for inducing Kauf to Jump.
Fandom thought that Kinsellas achieve
ment in capturing the greatest player the
enemy had should have won for him a
laurel wreath, an iron cross and a raise
in pay. And that's what Kinsella would
have received were these still wartime
days. BuS they aren't Kinsella. instead
of receiving a reward, was lucky to es-
cape with his life.
The reason why Kinsella was penaIized
is because unconsciously he almost caused
renewal of the warfare. The ruling
powers in the one-time opposing factions
agreed some time ago to quit the raid
ing tactics. And then when Kauff
jumped, the Feds thinking they were
double-crossed, rushed on to New York
ready to open up the battle along new
and fercer lines.
But then It was that the National Com
mission Jumped in and saved the day
1t explained that Kinsella, not knowing
that a peace truce had been arranged,
had gone along and carried out his Get
kauff' orders that had been given to
him before the fact was made. To show
that 1t was sorry for what Kinsella did
the cornish punished the "culprit-"
Not for many lengthy weeks have our
ears received any noises like The Feds
are a joke" they'll blow up in . few
weeks" etc Nor will We hear them
more.
About six weeks ago Ban johnson
spilled the beans'' in an interview given
out in Boston. Later johnson repudiated
the interview. He realized afterward
that the time wasn't ripe for breaking
the news to the dear old public.
Some weeks ago Garry Hermann pro-
pared the folks for what IL coming by
saying that II peace doesn't come soon
some of the masnates vii be ready to
join the ranks Of paupers.
The National Commission. II will be
remembered. rejected the demands of
the Baseball Players Fraternity some
weeks ago. They did It with much
gusto. They did IT as II they didn't
fear the fraternity-and they no
longer do.
A year or SO ago they granted the
bulk of the fraternity's demand. Why?
Simply because they knew that the
players would jump to the Feds II
they didn't. But this year they re-
jected them because they knew the
players couldn't jump to the Feds for
the simple reason that the pact
barred the Feds from taking them.
Many clubs in organized baseball
let out to the minors some promising
recruits and some real stars simply
because they couldn't keep those men
on account Of the player limit rule
Did the Feds try to grab any of
them? No. they didn't.
The baseball war is over: the de-
tails of peace and consolidation are
being arranged now. along about Au-
gust l or Is the public will be per-
mitted to come in on the know"