Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-08
PEPS' PARK IS OFF
S|NCLA|R'S HANDS
Relinquishes With 1t Claims to
Territory for $4,000
Year.
ASK BARROW TO PAY HALF

ASK BARROW TO PAY HALF
THE Federal League Park in Har-
rison is still owned by Harry #.
Sinclair, but he has relinquished all
claims to the territory and has no
plans of playing Sunday baseball
there II he gets control of either of
the New York major league fran
ment today II was made known also
that one of the concessions that Mr..
sinclair obtained from organi, ed
oaseball was an agreement by the
National and American leagues to
pay a rental of $4,000 a year to the
OIL man for the use of the park.
organized baseball in turn made n
proposition to the International
League to rent the plant to the New
ARK Club for $1,000 year, along with
an option for purchasing the property
later ON. The agreement by the Ma
tional and American leagues to pay
Mr.. Sinclair $4,000 a year for renta
on the park is for a period of twenty
years, 1t is said on the Federal League
side, while organized basebal's CO.
nortS say that no period had been
liked. This sum of $4,000 per annum
is payable on the five per cent of the
investment basis, the same as was
the case with the Wards in BROOKLYN.
who are to draw $4,000 year. Ed
ward G. Barrow, president of the
international League, today stated
that his league was in no way under
obligation to accept the terms offered
and that 1t was not at all certain that
the NnuVarlF
.
Gilmore Advocates Major League Ball
Here Sundays.
IT appears from statements made by
Jim Gilmore that he was the one
who first advocated ma jor league ball
on Sundays for Newark. The former
Fed head said so himself yesterday.
he also made an assertion that the
Federal League had the right to do
The debating i'll Newark, Buffalo and
Baltimore, because the territory had
been grabbed off during the war. "You
don't see Germany taking territory
from France and Russia and then
offering to give it back if peace is
declared, do you?" he said.
Ed Barrow was told about this
statement. His reply was: Organ
lied baseball now controls the situa-
tion. We want nothing to do with the
Federal League. We will be in New
ark and in Baltimore, and if they
don't care to rent us their park in
Baltimore that will not worry us. We
have control of the situation. The In
ternational League, as / said before,
will play in Newark and there will be
no major league opposition on Sun
days. That's all there is to il. We
will meet i'm faw lnUS tn a IL oVa,.
this question about terms for the
rental of the park and a period for a
lease"
The Federal League meeting sched-
uled for Wednesday in New York has
been indefinitely postponed.
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Keeping Fed Players Guessing Due to
Several Causes.
II EDERAL League players will
l. know where they are at very
shortly. In justice to the players it
is unfair that they should be kept
waiting, for some who are now tied
up with ten-day clauses in Their con-
tracts and. are likely 60 be freed
would like to get busy and do some
dlckerirg so that they might be To-
Gated before the season opens. Harry
+. Sinclair and the other Federal
League magnates, however, find
themselves in peculiar position. Or
ganized baseball is naturally playing
for the best cards and is unwilling
10 do much bidding, for the simple
reason that the more competition the
bigger will be the price paid to Sim
clair. The magnates in organized
baseball are also aware of the fact
that Mr.. Sinclair will have to unload
sooner or later and that a number of
players will be free.
1t is this angle which brings the
Players Fraternity into the field.
Sporting News in the current issue
hints that strike may occur.
.
Fraternity May Issue an Ultmatum
Shortly.
A T the same time the fraternity
IA may be forced to issue an ulti-
matum of some sort if the players are
not released or shown something
about their future within a reason
able period. At Federal League head
quarters in New York it was stated
yesterday that the players would
know where they were at very short
ly. At the same time James Gilmore
said that the players were the Fed
eral Leagues biggest asset and that
Harry Sinclair was not worrying
about disposing of them. Sinclair
las been waiting for the highest bid
ders. according to Mr.. Gilmore. The
withdrawal of the suit is necessary,
however, before the players can be
sold or let out. 1t would place the
Federal Leaguers in a peculiar posi-
tion If they were to let out the play
ers and do the very thing which they
labelled as unjust in their attack on
the so-called Baseball Trust"
Another Record Why Sinclair Is Holding
On to Players.
THERE Is very little doubt that
l Harry r. Sinclair will become an
owner of a major league franchise
and that the franchise will be right
in little old New York. 1t seems that
the hold-up at present is through
minority stockholders who are un-
willing to let go of their stock. Sim
clair wants to get control of the whole
situation or nothing, and right there
comes the hitch. 1t is onite likely.
however. that he will sooner or later
become the owner of the Giants, and
mere than one of the "disribles" he
has on his string will be seen in the
News lineup.
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"syndicate Baseball of a New Kind" by
G. Mack.
G INDICATE baseball is tabooed in
- the big leagues, but Connie Mack
certainly has been handing Charley
Com.skey a lot of prize packages.
The Athletics leader has turned over
Jack Lapp to the White Sox "F. Q.
B." and "F. Q. c." because Lapp's
contract was too big for Connie to
car,.,, az O CO mennS Free of