Putnam patriot., 1916-10-27
WORLD OF SPORTS
National Base Ball Commission After
 Big League Transformers
pIayers Will be PenaIzed for lnfraction
 of Rule

According to q despatch sent out from Chicago there are breakers ahead for major league base ball players who have been transforming. IL k stated thnt there is an ifouelad rule that after the season closes players shall quit base ball until rehenrsas begin for the following years show. This rule has not been lived up to by many players and the game which the Red sox, cham pions of the world, recently played in New Haven against the Na- tionals, the same team that appeared in Putnam, seems to be the exhibition that brought the matter to head.
 The announcement of the commis- sion k of unusual interest in this sec ton where for the past several sea- sons big league players have been ex- hibited ns a drawing card for large crowds Of worshipiul fans. It Is well known that Connie Mack and his Philadelphia Athletics recently ap- peared at North .Grosvenordaie before the largest crowd that fever assembled for a base ball game in that village This is no secret. The game was ad. vertised thoroughly to attract fans and was reported in the newspapers after ward. It has not however been men toned by the national commission.
 Last year after the season closed some big league material was seen in Putnam uniforms. Jack Barry came out for the last game from Boston Jack now says, according to Wor' cester paper, that he never heard oi such rule and that no penalty has been inflicted in other years
 One of the methods of penalizing is to withhold from the Red Sox their championship medals. These medals are of gold set with a diamond and are valued al Sl2h.
 The players are apparently willing to take chances and break the com missions rule for the sake of few dollars. They ldo not seem to have any interest in the games they partici' pate in but every dollar they can squeeze out of the small town manage ment appeals 10 them strongly, This was evidenced in the attitude of Cobb when he appeared in Putnam and kept large crowd waiting while he held up the management for more money on the strength that IL wouldn't be refused In view of the large crowd waiting to see him "as advertised He wasn't wrong either. It Is under steod that the management dug down for close to another hundred more than the amount originally agreed upon.
 Tyrus did not make a hit with Put nam uans. When the reason of the delay of the game became known many expressed the view that had they known what the trouble was they would have sought to have had tho management send Cobb back to Bos ton, from whence he came to Putnam without cent and that they would gladly have foregone seeing him undei such circumstances.
 As it was Ty got the money, played only i1ve innings because he drew th, color lire and left the game wher Jannonball Bedding wentin to pitch pocketed more money .per minutes than his big league salary calls for made himself unpopular with th' fans ana now is in wrong with the na fional commission.
 But as long as small town manager' will hold out the bait in fat purses fo the gentlemen from the big leagues they will doubtless take a chance or transforming and make the best terral they can with the irate national com mission
 Down went Joe Connol's All Stan before Manager Tom McDermott's ag gregatlon in the closing show of 1916 Inst Sunday. Putnam 2, All Stars
 was the final score. The game was continuation ot the one the Sunda, before when the same two teams bat He'd To ian inning tie, neither sid