Show KRAFT CASE DISTURBS BASEBALL WORLD j at 1 7 clarence kraft over whom trouble arose regardless of what it wae was that brought about the declaring off of the threatened strike of the ball players it t is to for the beet beat interests of the game that no strike was taken baseball baa has withstood numerous abuses since its birth and has lived and prospered under them but there is danger of the publio becoming disgusted with the methods now in vogue says the washington star the advent of 0 the federal league which caused players to lump jump their s contracts has already bad had k L detrimental effect on the interest in the sport the attendance this season having fallen off materially as a result had thu players gone into a strike as they threatened the game would have been dealt a blow from which it might never have recovered it t is being intimated that there was something more behind the threatened strike than the kraft case it may bavo have been a federal league scheme tor for it there bad had been a strike the chances aro are that many of the players would have deserted organized baseball and gone to tho the feds in this way the independent organization would have been made a major league propos proposition lUon in a single night ball players should not forget that they owe oe something to tho the game garne no other profession ealon has boen been so kind to those engaged in it as has baseball the players pl ayere salaries have gone upward hy by bounds and yet they fall again to whore where they started if public interest in the game to 1 marred clarence 0 kratt kraft was dratted drafted from the nashville southern association last fall by brooklyn after releasing kratt kraft to the boston nationals this spring and later recalling him according to officials of the nashville club president ebbets of brooklyn agreed to release the players to nashville under an optional agreement only the nashville club accepted the proposition but later formally withdrew their acceptance when the brooklyn club delayed in complying the nashville club later heard that kraft had been released to newark of the international league president of the nashville club immediately filed a protest with tho the national commission and later was notified by president hen ren mann that kraft bad had been awarded to nashville |