The daily times., 1921-09-20
RRADLEY,S DUPLICITY

| and played fast and loose with both.
! Is indicated by the following letter
| from Mr.. West to Mr.. Eagles.
This letter was written last night
| in Richmond by Mr.. West and at that
very moment Mr.. West did not know
that Bradley had cancelled the meet
! ing for tonight. The letter from Mr..
West throws much interesting light
| on the situation, as well as informa-
| ton disclosing the fact that all the
I clubs were outside the salary limit.
! Mr. J. c. Eagles.
| Wilson, N. C.
| Dear Mr.. Eagles:
l spent practically the entire after
treated by him with the utmost cour-
| tesy / had access to the League files
and completed a li,t of salary affi-
davits of the Suffolk, Newport News,
| Norfolk, Portsmouth and Richmond
Ball Clubs. thruout most of the sea-
son. / find as expected that names
CT various ball players do not occur
on salary affidavits, just as you and
| contemplated that they would not.
| also find that in two or three cases
salaries of players as shown by their
signed contracts, do not agree with
sworn statements of the club. / find
also that in case of Mathag, Ports
mouth has him signed at $250.0O,
ed for $4,000. OF course Ports
mouth secured the service of Black,
Mathag, Kearns and Ray since the
first of August; even their affidavits
names. They thus violated article z ),
section of the Virginia League
Constitution.
1 failed to find the names of Nc
Clellan and Carroll on the Richmond
list; the contract of Mcclellan called
for $4,000 per month and that of
Carroll for 100000. Furthermore
Shannon's contract with Petersburg
was for $275.00 per month; Rich
mond has him listed at $4,000.
Richmond claims that she is allowed
the privilege of adding the salary of
one man to the $3O50.00 limit be-
cause of the fact that their manager
is non-playing manager. Again
afternoons game that he is over the
salary limit, and has been all sea
son. Landis questioned the Rich
nond ball club about this matter;
they admitted their guilt yet he took
no action.
Norfolk salary affidavit sl1owsl
Henges on the pay roll June 18th;
his name does not appear on aff1da-I
Wit of July 9th, covering 18th to 3Oth
of June; it appears for four daysl
Fay on statement dated August 1st, |
ard on the statement covering Aug
ust 1st to 18th, mentions the factl
that Henges has been let out toI
Suffolk. Kruger's name appears: first
in their statement dated July 9th;
it does not appear on statement of
August 1st; but on that OF August
1st to 18th a notation is made thatI
Kruger is now with Suffolk Kru-t
gers contract calls for a salary OIL
3 10000 per month.
Practically the same sort of dopeI
holds good in references to Suffolk
except that they admit being over
the salary limit.
Newport News has violated theI
ule preventing the exchange of
players after August 1st, and they
also kept names off the pay roll dur
ing the first half that should have,
appeared. The rule governing ex-
change of players after the date men-t
toned has as you know been violated
by Suffolk and Portsmouth. Rich
nond made the attempt but failed to
get the man sought after.
Every team in the league except
Wilson has violated the seven dayl
suspension rule, which prohibits the
matter of suspending player for
less than seven days, in order to add
L new man to the lineup for a trial
without first releasing a former play-j
ar.
There is no doubt but that the
player limit has been violated byi
other clubs in the league, in addition
there have been several transfers of
scheduled games without securingI
consent of other clubs in the circuit.
Bradley actually seems sorry that
he took action in the matter of
throwing the Wilson games out. He
is as mad as can be at Lucas, but
spoke in the very highest terms of
you. If you can come up do so, for