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Show FEDERALS WIN IN FIRST SKIRMISH St. Louis, Mo., April 9. The first battle in Avar declared between "organized" "or-ganized" baseball and the Federal league was staged today and the younger league retired the victor, with an American league pitcher added add-ed to Its ranks and an American league catcher Is said to be on his way to join the Federals. Earl Hamilton, a left-handed pitcher pitch-er for the St, Louis Americans, departed de-parted today for Kansas City In company com-pany with George Stovall, manager of the Kansas City Federal team. Tonight To-night Clem Clemons, catcher for the St, Louis Americans, announced he would depart for Chicago, but ho would neither admit nor deny that he had joined the Chicago Federal team. Rumors that at least half dozen other oth-er St. Louis major league players had been considering Federal league offers or were soliciting such offers, were rife tonight. The battle was precipitated precipi-tated last night by the sudden arrival In this city of Stovall, C. C Madison, attorney for the Kansas City Federals, Fed-erals, and a third party who was said to represent the Chicago Federals. "You can say for me," Robert Lee Hedges, president of the St. Louis Americans, said today, "that President Presi-dent Johnson, the American league, tho national cnmmisslnn nnd nrpnn. b,ed baseball in general, will nevor permit Hamilton to play with the Kansas City Federals." Hamilton signed a three-year com tract with the local Americans last year. Clemens was a new man with the Americans. Ho was the star catcher on the University of Michigan team while Branch Rickey, now manager man-ager of the local Americans, was coach at that Institution. |