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Show SiSONFOR FEDS, ! ISAYSJOE TINKER a Stars to Join, Will In-rade In-rade New York and Philadelphia uh! 80 the Federal league 33 on 1st 1 gs? We re just breath ng ougu cur cars read to gi 0 one las, kand est rc are wet Jos Tinker s eyes flashed hen I told B that t as reported the 1 ederals tttus dead as Casey 3 cat and -would Jsr start buo ne 3 again in 191a ntes T ill am Peot In the V ashington mid Jos Tinier manager of tho Ch (Sago lis, who more than any other n an Was jjons hie for the 1 ederals organizing nr 0 called outlaw organ zat on was Baitii ore w th h s lub last week JJtook the tr p to the Mooun ental yfortwo reasons first I mantel to 1 1 al a fen quet ons an I se ondl ranted to ec his cl b pla Before we tartcd tall ng about the lieral league I to d h m that n y s n IbieS vero ent rely v. th organ ze 1 faball that in Wash gton ve kne v le abo t bs (i it and eared less it vlark Griffith hal g en a a win r and the fans wero for Gr ff to a Iilam glad to talk to ou T nker fohel and oolv ds tbit v quote le corre tl T n 1 te 1 ou a 1 t o We to know about the 1 cdcral eague Pvc ot Lost Coin Cjbe Teds have lost a p (e of mouej fcTvear haven t thevl I nq rel 'On the ontraxv, we have pot he I ed Out m Ch cago Mr Wogh i will lear i0 0 0 tl- s sea'o In timore a supposedly ead c tv the 1 will make money The san e holds i of Buffalo and lnd anapol a wh le tsburg w II break e en bt Lo s I Kansas O tv 1 ave lost a 1 ttle not b Brooklyn vill also fini h. w th a it lefic t ILA e yo going to start again next Jt-Are ne pong to? ho asked 1 m zeaient Watch us PLBere s anothpr th ng thai organ zed ebs 1 prol ablv does not know Pnyone of the players on ojt rosters fngned to long term contracts and fit of them have been pa d the r said ji for next vear In add t on, 0 r fB parks are pa 1 for wh ch more a organ zed baseball can clam Our jpmzat on 15 con plete and w th per a couple of chanf.es m ur r t p are better equ pped to do bus ness n ture than the National league Recked Minor Circuits 'We nave alreadv v rtus.ll put r 0 t of b g m nor league ire ts out of aitess and jou can t-ke a 1 p fron ' that at lea t three of the v 1 winter w thdraw from tho fold of uzed baseball rema n e tral an 1 mil ng to do bus ucsb w th our el 1 ors We shall send tl em n en wa Hot se and w II b hi cr for the r '"than organized 1 a el al Kiou ar (uoted aj ay ng that 0 iji Jed ba eball w 1 m kc ts 1 eiu tbe leds tl s winter and each se so t o an unde stand ijl, Is th IPS l? ' Dtlu re -ot exactly that I was ins C m. he rep' ed What 1 d d i-a w tb s Organ ze baseball at la t fuzes that we are. n the held sta,. V can ot make noney next era P oue to fiht s There s he e tl u riches 0 1 a well k ownues. Pwan hat 1 bel eved tLe nen b g 1 . . hind oigauized baseball would treat! w th us for peace Tjndoi stand th s howeer we will not make the first move an 1 it n atters little to ns whether fr endly relat ons are arranged or not Wo are planning to go strs ght ahead and will continue to gne the fans good baseball We -real zo that the success of our league depends a whole lot upon the confidence the fans roposo n us and I want to tell j on that we are making new fr ends e ery day and gain ng their confidence as tl e weeks roll by ' re you after any more major league stars! We have under contract r ght now fifteen layers who are at present en rolled w th organized baseball and tak ng part each day in American and 3Sa t onal league cha np onsh p games They w 11 repoit to us next spring Wanted Three Senators How about Washington s playersf It has been reported- that the Feds tried to get Gandil Milan Morgan Shaw Boehling and Johnson It has been gi en out f oni i me to t me that John son had agreed to Federal league tern s What ibout th sT I made bold to ask The Fede al lcaguo will land Walter Jolusou fo the reason that we can 1 av h m n ore real mouej than can tbe Wash ngton club Johnson is out for the co u and Sas agreed to gwe U3 a chance to b d for h s ser ces The onl othor men on the Wash ng ton cl b we wantod and tr ed to get wore ioster and Mian These two, witl Tohnson const t te Gr fflth s ball club We ha e better players on most of our club than anv of the others draw ng snlar es in W ash ngton and could ha c land 1 them ia 1 w e care t to go aftei them I 11 bet Milan s 1 lck Dg h nspIf now for b gn ng up witl Wash ngto for three ears when we off ere i 11 n moTe none thin he ever ould get fron Gr fhth ller s another q est on X would like to have yo aD.wer I fl ed at T nker S pposc for tho sake of argument the Tede al league succeeds in grabb ng all tho tars ot orBan zed baseball Where are sou go ng to put em after 0 1 got en ? feurelv J ansas City U Ijou s Iiuffalo a d lnd anapolis can not torn out the owds to pay the b g alancs theso men would be draw i T ul e 1 ei tdtel a m nuto before he answered Then he ba d Mill Imade Isew loik W c are go nh to make probablj two shift's n our r rui t next season There il be 1 lcleral leag e club in New o Citj also one in Ph la lelph aK ost 1 kelv New oA s sure and c thcr the G ants or 11 ghlauders w 11 be hard b t b s 11 res another th ng son 0 of 50 baseball writers appear to ha e 0 erlooked Our clubs as const t ted at 1 resent a e not conioscd t:n t el of h gh r cl players We havo a number ot stars on each team we also have a n nber of joung&te s who wo a 0 de eloping and are not draw & f J.CC7 tal&T es II apl en to know that thp Chicago lode al league pay roll is at least $lt.00(i a jcar loer than tho Ch eago Cubs and wo ould beat the Cuba eas ly in a ser es of jganies You remember that vhen the Ted e al league started last winter Ban John on pro's dent of the in er can leag e male tbe statement that ve wo id never open 0 r gate1 Ho qual fi d th s later by saying that w e would b ow urt w th the rest of the fire or 9 on or before Jul 4 We I ave played r erj sch dilel game thus far and ha e ioue nuch better than we thought pob jbc befo e the league 01 ened Adverticmg BTelits fbe Federal league knew before it bta to 1 what obsta les wo Id have to be o e on e We foresaw what organ zJd ba eball woUd attempt to do and every Cl b owner who n ested h s money v, ent n 0 the p opos t on w th h s eyes '"n harle We 1 man tho owner of the ri oago cl b w 0 also owns and con uc ftr Li, of rcEtau a ts n Chicago s ea ed n 1 h us h s un n er ab ut W a Ad ust fron the alver t s n" and news aper otonetv s con no t on w th the leleal eague has C 1 n To Wa ds n Brookljn who nan fat jT loo b eal sne d ann aliv n a 1 ert ng $100 000 Their bus nes . 1 as reased wonderf llv and they w 1 ' eas 1 get back whit mono thev havo 0 t basebsll th ougb the increase 1 1 Ik of tbe b in ss es t looks erj m ch as f the Federal league would be r sht On the ob next year We are n the field to stay and noth ng can stop ns We have th 0 ey the ball parks and w II e entua Iv get the players we are after I b s des lev eloping our own stars |