New Britain herald., 1917-10-17
SERIES PLAYERS
 ARE DISPLEASED
Holding Out $1,00O Until Dec. l..
 Meets With DiSapproVal

New York, Oct. 1.-The action of the National Baseball commission in announcing that it would hold out until December l. 1000 for the share of each of the players eligible to 8 1 slice of that $426,209.50 taken in at ! the worlds series as a guarantee that the athletes would refrain from par | ticipating in any exhibition games l brought quick protes from the par l ticipating players,
 They wanted all the money that / 1 was coming to them, and they wanted 1 1t right away. Several of the players | had taken on financial obligations on the strength of their worlds series money and simply had to have it.
 Some of the players were in favor of doing something drastic, and telling the commission just where it got off ! at, but cooler heads advised patience and told their mates to go about the 1 thing in sensible manner.
 At a conference attended by the former worlds series opponents the 1 following petition was drawn up yes- terday morning:
 We. the undersigned, hereby de- clare and agree not to participate as individuals or team in any game after this day at Camp Mills L. IT,
 Players Sign Petition.
 | The petition was signed by every player on both the New York and Chicago clubs who was eligible to the series, and was handed to the conn
 mission before yesterdays game at 1 Garden City by Capt. Charley Herzog
 of the Giants and Capt. Eddie Collins
 of the White Sox. l The commission promised to take the matter under immediate advise ment and give the players an early reply. While the commission had not yet answered the petition officially, it favors granting the request of the players. It was unoficially announced last night the players will be paid in full today. I President John K. Tener of the Ma. tional League, member of the com-1 , mission, said the commission had de-
 cided to comply with the request of i the players. He said the only thing
 the commission cared about was to be
 sure theere would be no attempts to break the rule against worlds series
 players taking part in exhibition D games, and that the pledge of the
 players was perfectly satisfactory to t the commission.
 One of the reasons why the. com- missions action was resented so hotiy = by some of the players is that they l considered it slight, if not an insult. . As one player said, Tt makes us look as though we cannot be trusted and | that we have to be coerced into obey ing a commission ruling
 Collins a Heavy Loser. ; It must be admitted that the players
 had grievance and that the conn 7 mission should have found some other way of exerting it's authority than holding back money belonging to- the players. The action of theN conn., mission in stopping these barnstorm- l ing trips by worlds series opponents , is, however, good thing for baseball. l Such games usually are burlesques 7 on the game and slipshop exhibitions.
 Frequently teams are billed as worlds
 champions with perhaps three to five
 of the worlds champions in the line- up.
 Eddie Collins, who with Herzog drew up the petition sent to the com mission, is the heaviest loser by the commissions action. Collins, 1t is said, could have cleaned Up another $2,000 with his proposed exhibition trip had not the commission inter-