The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-10
lton and Chicago Teams Demand
show Down Before Starting
This Afternoons
Game.
kouBLE OVER MONEY
and Stand Crowded at Two O'Clock
With Not Uniformed
player on the
Diamond.

Grand stand crowded and sus-
,se running high, not a single Red
ar Cub player had appeared on
field at Fenway Park at 1875 this
ernoon.
q neared conjecture ran rife.
esue Mann, Chicago left fielder.
lie in the dressing room, Is report
IN have said he would not play
afternoon. Attempts to learn
" no players had appeared on the
Ia less than an hour before the
bst important game of the worlds
ries, were unavailing.
walter Craighead. business man
y or Of the Cubs, confirmed the state
pnt that the players had refused TO
Ike the field. -
/ The players were waiting Tor the
ktional commissions decision on
eir demand that the second, third
"a fourth place clubs be cut out
bm share in the receipts.
Craighead got the national commits
On on the telephone and told Chair
an Hermann that some decision
ould have to be made.
Hermann replied that he would
We his decision over the phone II
q players would call him up.
HI leslie Mann was to telephone Herr
ann.
+ When the players stated their case
the national commission this morn
Chairman Hermann first said he
ould notify the players of his de-
sion before the game today. An
slant later, on advice OF John
ruce. he said the decision would be
ndered after the game tonight.
Killifer and Mann representing the
lbs. and Hooper and Wagner for the
ed Sox apparently were satisfied
hen they left the room.
Soon after this the Cub players left
r Fenway Park, apparently all set
play the fifth game OF the series.
After the players reached the CLUB
buse it was decided to demand a
low down or refuse to go on with
e games.
AT 1855 p. M, when both teams
bould have been on the field, for
hitting practice, and the stands were
Hing, there were no signs OF a uni
brmed player on the diamond.
Five Cub players appeared in the
Rand stand, but they were not in
Inform. They were Charley Pick,
lode Paskert, Claude Hendrix.
charlie Deal and Phil Douglass. Hen
rix shouted to the press box that
verything was Off and that the
anne would not be played.
i At 2:35 p. m, Chairman Hermann
ent for Harry Frazee, and Charles
Eeeghman, owners Of the two clubs
Ind instructed them to tell their
players they must decide quickly
whether to play or not. The players
we're not uniformed at that time and
Insisted they would not play unless
compromise was reached. Hermann
aid he believed they would play.
| The national commission and the
Iwo club owners were seated in the
Rational commissions box and
khreshed out the trouble.
Dode Paskert, Cub center fielder,
|ntimated that plans were being made
by the players to stage their own
worlds series. He spoke of brand
pew series of games probably to be
played in Cleveland In a stadium he
pid not name.
National commission members re-
FUSED 10 yield an inch.
Just few minutes before game
time, 2:30, the players insisted there
would not be chance that thoy
would submit to plan that would
give less money than they had asked
for The crowd did not appear to
know what was going on. They
cheered the band and cheered quar-
let of mounted police who rode
around the field. Indications we-e
lhat the club owners would lose the
biggest attendance of the series IL
The game were abandoned.
The players refused to go ON the
Held unless they received a written
guarantee from the commission that
each member of the winning team
would receive $500 and each men,
per of the losing team $1,000.
This was a compromise PROPOSE
ton, the original demands of the
players being $4,000 and 81, 400.
Chairman Hermann notified Les
NE Mann, Of the Cubs, representing
me teams, that IL the players did
not play the game the series would
pc declared off, today's receipts would
pc refunded and all Of the monsy
taken in in the preceding games
would oe equally divided between the
tiuo owners, less ten per cent to be
devoted to war charities
Inc commission guaranteed that
the winning team would divide
among its players s23, 1922 and that
.ne losing team would divide $751;
soS.l6. in accordance with the divi-
bon OF the money provided by the
The total money for the world
seIies contests amounts to $3S,
The gross value of the players
snare, including the worlds series
contestants and the second, third
snd fourth teams in each major
league, amounts to $50, 52T.7G. Ac-
cording to the rules of the commits
1on' the Giants and Cleveland Amer