OCR Text |
Show FEDERAL WILL HAVE " fEW CONTRACT FORM Prexy Gilmore Says Document Docu-ment Will Be Equitable and Court-proof. i Bv Internationa! News Service. BUFFALO, N. Y. , Feb. 27. Ending their two days meeting with a dinner tonight, the- Federal leaguers adjourned until March 13, wncn Pittsburg will be the scene of another gathering-. Profiting by a year's experience In the Promotion of the national game. the magnates announced that E-. F. Gates, league counsel, has submitted a rough draft of a new form of contract that will ' he a revelation in basaball., Details of i the salient points include provisions for j players which will result in the estab- i lishment of conditions that will make the"1 Federal league contracts court-proof. President James A. Gilmore said: "We believed our present contracts to : be the most equitable ever known In baseball, but after the club owners and league directors have made suggestions it will be possible to present a contract i that will bo absolutely ilawlc-ss. The I players' condition will be bettered under the new form adopted and there will be no loophole for legal entanglements. I Practically every point covered will tend) to make the understanding betwen employers em-ployers and employees comnletc-." Mordecai Brown, veteran hero of thf-days thf-days of the Cubs triumphs, has been turned back to the league bv the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Federals, who took up his contract after Brown had been riisphii-ed as manager man-ager of the St. Louis Federals last season. sea-son. Brown has been sought lv Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago Federals, and the oM teammates mav be united. ! although Larry Sehlatly. manager of the ; BnlT.iio iul. also asked for the services i ;' Of tl-f pitcher. j ! WHlim Brennan. chii-f of the nmnir- i Hue: ytafi, c;nd Uiat a ninth memher may j he named wn. li;ink O'Dav. J.-.st ?-a- ' i ?on"s lrann'ur of liie Cubs, and Jac i ; l-a:i of tin-- Amrrican lea-me btafr are ! the only two l--;irq- conFiclr-rGd. I Chivf Brennan has oro'ered the um- j (Continued cm Following Page,) J FEDERAL WILL HAVE NEW GONTRAGT FORM I . . t i (Continued from Preceding Page.) rjre? to beptn traiuir.g on March 31 at j West Baden. Tnd. Lon? walks and a i daily discussion of rule-? will feature the ' training trip. The umpires include William Wil-liam Brnnan of S'.. Paul. James John-; stone of Newark, Fred Westervelt of Ric'nrnond. V.j. : William Finnoran or Erie, Pa. ; Harry Howell of Brooklyn- I Louis Lite of Chicago, Barrv MCormick ; nr Chicago and William '. Spike Shan- j non of Minneapolis.- Mi 'ormi- k and j Shannon are the old bold-overs from last season" Federal leasee staff. St. Louis Players Leave. ! ST. LOUIS. Feb. 27. Twenty-two American league players left tonignt for Houston. Texas, to join an advance ?quad wliih has heei in training in Texas for several dys. Thirteen St. Louis Federals loft tor K.-'y West. Fla.. where they will take a boat to Havana, Cuba, for their sprint training. This is the second Federal souad to leave this week. Manaeer Fielder Jones and ten athletes have been at Havana since Tuesday. |