New Britain herald., 1917-01-11
BASEBALL RUPTURE
 SEEMS INEVITABLE
Players Fraternity Right to Ap-
 peal Denied by Tener

New York, Jan. 11.-A rupture Tn baseball now seems unavoidable. President Tener of the Nalopai League yesterday dashed away the last straw to which President Fultz of the fraternity had been clinging for a peaceable settlement when he said an appeal from the commissions dismissal of the fraternity requests could not come from the fraternity ! but must come from individual play-s CTS in specific cases.
 In dismissing three requests of the fraternity the commission held they complaints concerned only the lnter- nal affairs of the National Association and could come before the commis- , sion only on appeal. Fultz took that to mean that he had right to Ap-R peal immediately to the commission, i, from the National Associations action in turning down his requests, and was working on an appeal which he in-s tended to forward to the commissiort
 within the next few days. #
 My sense of the commissions find- ing is that this phraseology does not
 open a new door to the fraternity
 to renew it's requests" said Teners There must be something to appealN from, and I cannot see how there can be an appeal from our dismissal
 Now Fultz's Move.
 When told of Tener's definition of the commissions appeal clause,'} lrultz said last night: eff Tener6 opinion is that of the entire commi4
 sion, it looks as though they hare i gone as far as they will go, and th4
 next move must come from us." A l For the present this move will con1E 1 tinue to be withholding consent fron{Es the players to sign new contractA5 Asked yesterday whether the player4s
 were showing any uneasiness over in + ability to sign contracts, Fultz said:
 'I am receiving piles of letters from players every day who of course are vitally interested in present condi-s K tions. However, they do not appsars 1 to feel any uneasiness or alarm, and l have absolute confidence in theg 1 loyalty of our mem bers.' :, Fultz would say, however, that if {. the club owners or the commission l try any retaliation on the players they will find out that the players will soi l the limit" In a recent intervi(w4 l President Tener said: "I believe thatA 1 if one of our average players is septM contract calling for $3,O00, whicAK may be reduction of $500 over ht6
 previous war contract and sends t 1 back, saying the fraternity advise14 i him to ask for $4,000, I believe thSk l player will likely find that the clVb l owner will send him back a contra3 calling for not $3,0O0 but s2,500." 4s Promises Interesting Developments.M M ''I do not think they will try any&4 thing like that" said Fultz, but IF
 they do they will find we can makG things interesting" l Fultz said that with the exceptiof
 of the two New York clubs the playks CTS on practically all of the othet clubs were unsigned. From the irE < formation I have at hand l belieW the other ten clubs have only som6v thing like one or two players signed to the team" said the fraternity head. Fultz will give out a statement t6- day on Harry Sallee and Bill Ritter
 signing contracts with the Giants sign, will likely be expelled from tho fraternity. According to Tener no5 other contracts except those of tho two Giants have been promulgated. A}