Evening star., 1917-01-21
THREATENED STRIKE
WILL Be AF|zlE
At Least Forty Stars of Big
Leagues on Record to Ignore
FuItz'S Orders.
LIST is GROWING DAILY
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.


every day that the movement is
destined to failure and it prob
ably will be a matter OF only a
few weeks, if no, days, until its
entire collapse is recorded. This
conclusion is based upon the fact
that about forty of the most
prominent players in the game al
ready have announced they will
ignore any order to hold out, and
evidence is at hand that as many
more will have voiced their views
in opposition to the plan before
the month is out.
Fultz was beaten before he
started. He made the mistake of
assuming that his views were
those of the players, and he es-
saved to commit them to a
course inimical to their welfare.
Fultz can talk loudly and at
length about striking, but the
ultimate answer rests with those
who alone can do this-the play
ers.
Renounce Fultz as Leader.
arfa frny
the club owners for entertaining the
public were in sympathy with Fultz
and his plans they would place them
selves on record to that effect. If
they were undecided as to the merits
of the controversy, uncertain on which
side their best interests lay, they
might reasonably be expected to say
nothing and do nothing-just sit tight
and await Developments before casting
their lot one way or the other.
What they have done-at least two
score Of them thus far-is to assure
their club owners they have no inten-
tion of supporting the head of the
players fraternity if his strike prop
uganda and the list includes members
a. we'll as non-members of the fra
ternfty. players not under contract as
well as those already signed
Al Demaree, one of the leading
statement voicing disapproval of the
plans Of its directing genius in regard
to not permitting players to report at
the spring training camps until the
fraternitys demands have been grant
ed, and one of the latest to desert Fultz
Is AL Mamaux, the brilliant young
pitcher of the Pirates. who has acted
as representative of the fraternity in
Pittsburgh.
These Players Will Not Strike.
In addition to Walter Johnson, Eddie
Foster. Ray Morgan. Clyde Milan and
two other members of the Washington
team as yet unnamed. the following
major league players have announced
they have no quarrel with their en-
ployers and will report on time for the
ante-season conditioning work. strike
or no strike:
Eddie Collins. Iris Speaker. Grover
Alexander, Frank Baker. Ty Cobb,
George Sisler. Stufy McInnis, Joe
Jackson. Sam Crawford, Leslie Nuna-
maker, Ernest Koob, Babe Ruth, Lee
Magee. Bob Shawkey, Roger Peckin-
John Lavan. Lawton Witt, Joe Benz,
Steve O'Neil. Ernest Shore, Fritz Mai
eeI Terry Turner, Charles Mullen Ell
mer Myers, Ray Fisher. Bobby Roth,
Joe Gedeon, Ray Schalk. Joe Jackson
oscar Stanage. Edgar Collins, RAY
Caldwell and AL MSmaux
The same fearful fate that was the
lot OF Slim Sallee of the Giants has be-
fallen Oscar Stanage He has been ex
PEELED from the base ball PLAYERS fra
ternity. President FuItz announces
Stanage's expulsion came about as
result OF his signing a contract with
the Detroit club for the 1917 season. in
violation of his agreement with the
other members of the fraternity to
await permission to sign. Indications
are that Stanage and Sallee Will have
q lot Of company before long
Manager Griffith has about completed
Arrangements for a game at Rocky
Mount. y. C.. for his squad of young
eters on their trip to Washington from
Augusta next spring The offer for n
contest at Rocky Mount has been ac-
cepted, the only question to be settled
being the date. In routing his young
eters Criffith is s-endeavoring to arrange
TO have them kept busy from the time
they leave Augusta until they arrive
here. but always proceeding north.
hence the dates for the games prior TO
those scheduled at Norfolk and Rich
mond will not be announced until the
full list of games is obtained
The practice OF having the young
pitchers in the Washington squad re-
port here some time in February and
Timber up in a gymnasium will NOT be
adhered 70 this year. Griffith says Ed
Ole roster Is iond OF gymnasium work
and undoubtedly will continue il uDon
his return TO this city from Chica go
the first of next month, and Jim Shaw
also may do some jogging on the Y NJ
q. A. track to Improve his wind but
there viii be no orders issued for the
youthful hurlers to report and toss 'en
over under the direction of the teams
backstops, as has been done in the ma ct
Griffith is dubious about the benefits 10
be derived from such a procedure
As a result of the action of tho Amer
tcan and National Leagues ir covering
connections with the players frater-
nifty. that organization is in about the
same situation as that in which the
old Ball Players Protective Association
found itself back in the early DAYS OF
the American League, according to
Harry Schumacher in the New York
Globe. He says:
The association. like the fraternity
won early recognition from the mag
mates, and was treated with every
courtesy on every occasion until Harry
Taylor, the Dave Fultz Of his day
sought to inject his personality into
the squabbles TO which the players and
the moguls of the time occasionally
blew themselves. The club owners roll
Grated Taylor for spell but when he
appeared before them at an annual
meeting. armed with a long list OF
grievances, they suddenly conceived a
most violent dislike for him
Before he could open his address
they ordered him from the meeting
rnan1 and notified fha ula Tho, 81,