Evening star., 1917-01-19

the Federal League. Old Federal
League players are not fraternity men,
bers. Irrespective of the situation
elsewhere, Fred Mitchell will find no
difficulty in getting trainload of
players to make the journey to the
coast"
Members of the fraternity should not
be misled by false statements" says
Chairman Hermann of the national
commission, in a statement issued in
Cincinnati.
MY attention has just been called to
Bulletin No. 2. sent out by David L.
FultZ, president of the base ball fra
ternity, to the members thereof" Herr
mann says. In the first paragraph. in
referring to requests recently made by
the fraternity to the national board of
the national association he states that
the requests have been tabled without
consideration. This statement on his
part is false. The requests have been
acted upon under date of January D,
and the action of the board has been
promulgated throughout the country"
Another meeting to reconsider the
fraternity's position will not be held
by the national board. according to
President Barrow of the international
League. who is a member of the board
which handed down the decision of the
national association to which the fra
ternity objected, and which serves as
the basis for the threatened strike. MI.
Barrow says the board made its deci-'
sion after careful consideration. and
that it took great pains to stand firmly
by the agreement it made with the
fraternity at the Cincinnati peace meet
ing in January, 1913. He says the
minor league CLUB owners are standing
by this original agreement on the ques-
.tion of paying the players expenses to
the spring training camps, while the
fraternity wants to break this agree
ment. which virtually was framed by
President Fultz himself and approved
by him.
AS now In force. the agreement pro-
videS that every minor league club
shall pay players travelling expenses
to report at training camps, or SO much
thereof as does not exceed the traVei-
ing expenses from the city in when
the club is located to its training
camp"
The agreement also stipulates that
when club trains in its home city pc
fore the opening of the season this
will not be considered as training
camp. 1t is this feature of the agree
ment which the fraternity wants
changed. President Barrow asserts the
board in its finding on this point SAID:
'"rhe vast majority of all clubs do
now and always have paid transporta-
tion expenses to their respective play
ers to report. The association, now
ever, must decline by blanket ron
clad rule to force all smaller CLUBS.
which clubs experiment during a sea-
son with from sixty TO ninety player
novices each. to expend more for trans
portation than for salary roll. thereby
doubling their already hard burden
The association also favors permitting
clubs to use discretionary judgment
in certain other cases. The association
must decline to make any change in
the present agreement
Fred Fulton, who is looked upon by
many fight fans as the logical con-
tender for Jess Willards champion
ship crown, has been signed for two
bouts to be held in New York between
now and March Is. Charley Weinert
and Jim Corey are the opponents Sc
lected for him, and If Fulton polishes
them off in good shape, as is expected,
willard hardly will be able further to
decline to meet him.