Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-27
VEX|NG RUMORS
CURRENT ANENT
FED FRANCHISE
Gossip in Buffalo Concerning
Kansas City Injunction
Disquieting.
MACNATES SMILE AND SAY
THEY ARE NOT WORRYING
Kansas City Men Go Home Dis
couraged and Down.
hearted.
RYJ. p N.

BY J.P.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 27.-Though
James A. Gilmore, president OF the
Federal League; P. T. Powers, who Is
looking after the interests Of the
Newark club. and every magnate on
the ground here will tell you with
an on-the-level smile that they aren't
worrying one bit over the restraining
order obtained by the Kansas City
club people to prevent the league
from officially awarding berth in it's
league to the Newark club, just the
same on the side and In the corri-
dor of the Iroquois Hotel, where the
magns tes are in session, there is
more or less gossip that all is not
peace in Paris"
Consistently and persistently the
magnates will deny that Kansas City
or any other city has chance in the
world to grab the franchise from
Messrs. Powers and Sinclair. The
fact remains that the Federal League
is here in meeting going on two days
and II hasn't been able to adopt
schedule or to do any business Of any
kind. The hands OF the magnates
are tied-tied because of the restrain
ing order secured by the disappoinr-
ed q displeased Kansas City men,
three Of whom, A. F. Gordon. d. j.
Half and a. G. Black, came here 70
plead their cause, but who left last
night very much downhearted and
discouraged.
o.
The Federal League moguls went
into session again today. prepared to
put through more important business.
Though they refused to announce the
adoption OF schedule yesterday and
will not be allowed to do SO. because
of the restraining Injunction obtained
in a Chicago court by the Kansas
City people. everything under the
surface and on the surface. too, is
serene and placid today, the Fed
nnoguls say.
Now you fans in Newark who ex-
pected long ago. no doubt. to see
the schedule and be figuring out the
days you intend to lay off next sum-
mer TO see the Feds play over across
the river in Harrison, are. as know.
a little anxious over the delay In
affairs here, but the assurance is
given that under no circumstances
will Newark lose it's franchise nor
will Kansas City get back its fran
chise. IT'S all we'll enough now for
the good people OF Kansas City to
come here and holler and break
up our powwow. but the time for
them to have shown their sports
nnanship was when they had the
franchise
They understand little effort was
made to make the club a success and
those who had control refused to come
to the front with the necessary where
withal, and they even became so care
less as to allow some Of the boys to go
without their salaries for a time. It
is known. too, that there was much
foreign interference by the Kansas
City regulars with George Stovall, the
manager, and Stovall himself will tell
you that he gave four or five of these
a great big bawling out and went
down into his own pockets and paid
the players their salaries. The sym
pathy that Kansas City is looking for
now isn't deserved, because Kanras
City didn't know how to take care of a
good thing when she had 1t.
@
While they will not admit 1t FOR q
second, the Feds are stalled stiff here
and they are unable to do a single
thing officially, OF course, for fear Of
his majesty the law. 1t is thousand
to one we'll admit that the playing
schedule has been agreed upon and
that a dozen and one other things
have been settled, but just the same.
nobody is supposed to know 1t but
those who are vitality interested. III
sort of a whispered manner 1t is told
that Newark is going to open at
Baltimore on April 10 and without
any strings attached the news is
given out that Brooklyn, Baltimore,
Chicago and Indianapolis are the
cities to be awarded the opening dates
and little bits of pews leak out, but
anything that affects Kansas City is
kept a dark deep secret.
O.
A battle Of wits ensued here be-
tween the Kansas City magnates and
the Federal League magnates. and
there is no telling who had the bet
ter of 1t. The Kansas City men were
very much in evidence at all times.
but they were also very reticent.
Not one OF them would say what
they were here for, or what move
they intended to make, yet i'm
portant as their conversation was they
would always say, Kansas City
owns the franchise, and the fran
chise will be in Kansas City's hands
when all is said and done" Kansas
City man pulled one thing, though.
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