Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-21

first of the fraternity agree
ment.
''Third-That minor league play
ers receive their travelling ex-
pense from their homes when re-
porting for spring practice.
"Fourth-That the procedure
now employed by the National
board in hearing players claims
presented by the fraternity be
amended so that the fraternity
shall receive copies Of these de-
lenses interposed by the clubs and
an opportunity be given it of an
swering such defenses; that i'm
mediately upon decisions being
rendered, the fraternity shall be
served with copy thereof and
the players exhibits, If any, pre-
scented by the fraternity, returned
to it if requested; that the board
shall enforce its award against
the clubs"
Fultz declares that baseball player
besides being a human being, is en-
titled to more or less consideration
as an athlete.
COMMISSION ONCE AGREED.
The commission had once agreed to
the requests, he said, and he doesn't
see why the National board does not
consider it just as important
In regard to the release clause,
which now virtually permits a player
to be released while a game is in
progress, he says: Players have been
released while sitting on the bench in
uniforms before a game and received
no pay for that day. This did not
seem fair to us, as we felt a player
should have reasonable opportunity to
look for another position before be-
ing without salary. We procured a
rule emitting him to five days no
tice. This is section one, of the fra
ternity agreement, and reads as fol-
lows:
Ffrst-When major league player
receives a 10 days notice of uncon-
ditional release, or when a class "A
notice he shall be free to sign
with any team Immediately
IN DIRECT VIOLATION.
THE national board, at it's meeting
in San Francisco in 1915, enacted a
clause 80 in direct violation Of the
above mentioned clause as fol-
lows:
THE unconditional release OF any
player In class IA or class A may be
recalled at any time within five days
after notice has been given.
1T can at once be seen that during
the five days period no other club can
sign "a released player because all other
clubs know that his release may be
recalled =. Secretary Farrell, in
his published justification of this
clause, does not even attempt to deny
that 1t is violation Of our agreement y
STATEMENTS BY PRESIDENTS.
Fultz goes at some length into state
ments from the presidents Of both ma
Jor leagues and by Garry Hermann, in
which they stated they were in favor
of the demands, and in which at least
one of them ordered Farrell from q
meeting. with instructions that he
should at once concede the position.
Fultz. admitting he has no fight with
the national cimmission, says:
we are sorry to say so, but the
only terms which the board under
stands are those of force.
THE boards hostility to US dates
from the early part of 1914. In that
year the officers Of the fraternity went
to Cincinnati and made certain pre-
liminary agreements with the national
commission and the national board. A
week later the national board sent out
contracts which contained a clause In
violation. The writer was
compelled, after futile correspondence
with Mr.. Farrell. to advise minor
league players not to sign contracts"
ATTITUDE TOWARD FARRELL.
Then Fultz launched into an explain
alton of the commissions attitude to-
ward Farrell in an adjourned meeting
in New York during which Farrell was
to remove the clause.
Fultz finishes with defense of the
major league fraternity members at.
titude In the question. contending II
would be disgraceful act for ma
jor Lacquer to desert his smaller
brother in such a fraternal stand.
1T may be unfortunate for the big
league magnate," he says, but he
must suffer for the company he keeps