The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-19
President Of Baseball! Players Fra
ternity, Was Star Football
and Baseball
Player.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
Is Now PractIcIng Law In New YORK
What He Has Done for Nation
al Game Through
Organization.

frequently on the sport page OF la.e
than David FultZ, president OF inc
baseball PLAYERS fraternity. and ye-
the average fan knows comparatively
little about him There are quite
few who declare that he is danger
GUS individual and harmful to the ma
tional pastime. Others who have
looked into the history and know
something of his life and what he
has done, point out that he Is an earn.
est. Intelligent worker in support OF
reforms that he believes are needsd.
Those who have known and met hin
are even more eager to comment ana
applaud him. He Is said to have
winning personality.
Whatever may be the outcome OF
the baseball strike Fultz has been
directing. a glimpse into Fultz's ca.
reer will convince the average fan
that his side of the case deserves
hearing. Fultz organized the Base
ball Players fraternity in 1912 after
he had been approached several times
by leading players who felt the need
of such a thing. Since that time
there have been reforms in the game
that are great benefits to ball play
ers generally and most players are
quite willing to admit that FultZ has
been chiefly responsible for bringing
them about.
Football Star at Brown.
Fultz attended the Staunton Mill
tary academy when boy and later
went to Brown university, where he
was a star in the backfield of one OF
the strongest teams Brown ever had.
Fultz has since been pointed out az
! the bright particular star in the his
tory of football at Brown. At any
rate it was clear that he was speed
king as a football player and has been
in close touch with the game ever
since. He is today unsurpassed. in
the opinion of many, as q referee.
While at Brown Fultz stared on tho
baseball team as well, attracting the
attention Of the big league managers,
and toward the close of the 1898 sea.
son he was signed by the Phillies
The year after Fultz signed with
, John McGraw, then at Baltimore
and when the American league was
organized short time later, he weat
to Milwaukee to play short and sec
ond for Connie Mack. then the Brew
| ers' manager. When the American
, league invaded the east Connie Mack
took Fultz and some of the rest OF
his stars with him to Philadelphia,
and the Athletics made their first
appearance.
Makes Speedy Outfielder.
Fultz jumped to the outfield, after
little trouble with his arm, and
starred in the garden for the Ath-
letics the season they won their first
pennant. The baseball guides Of
those years announced that among
| the games real stars was Fultz, the
Athletics speedy outfielder, who
within a few seasons had developed
into one of the greatest players in
the country.
Fultz went to the New York Yanks,
then under the management of Clark
Griffith, after leaving the Athletics
and it was at New York that he clos
ed his baseball career. In the fall of
1905 he chased a fly at the same time
that Eberfield pursued it, and wheE
the players clashed, Elberfield' s
head struck Fultz on the cheekbore
so severely as to put him in the hos
pital for some time. 1t was at this
point that Fultz decided to bring
his baseball career to a close.
In the winter seasons he had been
studying law and when he quit base.
ball he was prepared to start a Law
office. He went into partnership With
Fred Murphy, a college mate. and the
two have been established as the firm
Of Murphy & Fultz. at Al Wall street
ever since
Fultz says that the ball players dc
not want strike much more than
the fans and owners do. But he adds
that the demands OF the players are
just and that there must be some
way of settling them