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Show STRIKE OF PLAYERS BLOW VfJASEBALL President Tener of National League Says the Majors Would Eear Brunt. NEW YORK, Nor. 24. "Should the major league players declare a sympathetic sympa-thetic strike because of the refusal of the national association to grant certain requests re-quests of the Baseball Players' fraternity, frater-nity, it will be a strike not against the national commission, but against the very game of baseball itself." said President John K. Tener of the National league in a statement issued here today in reply to a strike threat made by President David Da-vid Fuitz of the fraternity. "1 cannot conceive that young men like our playeis can talk of attempting to tie up their business over such a trivial mat-'.er mat-'.er as is involved in the dispute between the players' fi aternity and the minor leagues. A sti ike of this kind would dimply mean Lhat big league players would have to bear the entire brunt of it. The class AA and A minor leagues could easily pick up sixteen men for their teams while the big leagues were idle. "Everything that has been accomplished accom-plished for the benefit and advancement of t lie pi a ver has come through the na-tional na-tional cum mission. Mr, Fultz s-ays the commission has always been fair and just. I will so further than that and say that in disputes bet ween players and club owners, the commission lias always haned toward the pl2yer. And now these same players threaten to call a strike because of some unimportant minor league Issues." |