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Show FOR LABORING II EXHIBITIONS I ! I : . National Commission Im- poses Penalty on Sixty- t one for Barnstorming After Season. OlXf'INNATT. Ohio, Dec. 8. Fines were inflicted by the national baseball commission com-mission toilfiy uii major league ball pin vers who have taken part In various exhibition Karnes following: the close, of the ae:ison of ! 3!)1fi. i Fifty-one players from thirteen of the sixteen major lenpue teams were fined in amounts nine: hit; from $25 to Jioo. However, How-ever, the commission mi.spended fines of thirty-olht players, allowing onlv thir-, thir-, teen lines to stand. The men who must pay are Players 1 lenrieltsen. .Tanvrin, Shorten. Hoblitzell. Lewis, lUcNiilly. Srotl. farly, Fiuth and Harry of the " world's chainpinn Huston American le.HK'Je team; Players Cobb and Yonntr of the Detroit Anierunns. and Tlayer lavia of the Philadelphia Americans. All of these wore fined $100, except Cobb, who must ! pav Sr,). The fines on tho Boston Americans ! came ns tho result of a game played at New Ha ven. Conn., in violation of the J rules against members of the world's I champ ion a play in; in games after tho j close of the season. Barry did not plav, , but managed the team that did play. I Failed to Get Advice. ! Davis waa lined as the manager of a toMin which played in various eastern cities, bin the tines of the remainder of the te:im were suspended because it was brought out in t lie testimony that Davis had assured his team mutes that he had the word of President Johnson of the American league that there would he no official objection to the temn's plving. The commission says that President Johnson John-son simply advised Davis to take up the matter with the chairman or the commis- i ' sinn which, a -cording to t he- chairma n, he 1 failed to do. The chairman. Aueust Hrrr- ' manu says that had Davis taken the mat- ! j ler up with him a refusal to play would ! have been the only possible ruling. I Player Young was fined for playing with ' a team in the east after the disfvindment j of the Canadian louiists. while Ty Cobb I was fined on account of his having taken i part in the game at New Haven against ! l lie Fic-ston A nieriea ns. Those p'.ayeis who were fined, but whose fines were suspended, are: j Players Rush. Duhu Hurns, Young, Stallage. Poland and Dauss of Detroit; i Mullen, Oilhoole.- and Nunamaker of the New York Americans and Chapman, Speaker and Gandil of the Cleveland team, each for part icica ting in games at Ottawa and Montreal. Plavers Johnson of Washington, Alexander Alex-ander of Philadelphia Nationals. Wheat and Stengel of Brooklyn and Carey of Pittsburg. each, for playing in a game at Joplin Mo. Player Pauman, New York Americans. $r0 for plaviug at Indianapolis, over the protest of Manager MoGil! of the Indianapolis Indian-apolis club. Plavers Mullen, I .ove and Alexander of i the New York Americans, $,n each, for plaving at Lenox Oval. N. Y. Pkers Maisel. P-tker, Peekinpauch and 1 Sbawkey of tho New York Americans; Kixey and Pender of the Philadelphia Na-i Na-i tion tls; Pn?h. S'-hang. Movers and Strunk of tho Philadelphia Americans; Collins of tlie Ciiicago Americans; Plank of the St. I. mils Americans, and Chase of Cincinnati, ! eacli. for playing in various eastern cities. This was the team managed by Harry Davis, whose members told the commission commis-sion 'hat Davis had assured them tint President Johnson had said there would be no official objection. Plavers Koob, St. T.ouis Americans: Danforth of the Chicago Americans, and i Preudcrcast of the rhioano Nationals. fj-i rach. for playing in vaiious independent games. Thirteen Exonerated. ; The cases of thirteen plavers, other than the above-mentioned, were investigated ! and the players were exonerated. They were: Plaver Nehf of the Boston Nationals. ho took part in a game at Indianapolis against the protest of President .Mod ill. Nehf showed t'at he had the consent of . the Piston Nationals' president and that he did not know that president McOiil l;ad protested: that as scon us he found thi-s out lie caii'-elled otl r games, and wished to abide bv the rules. The following niemb.-rs of the New York N.itionaU weie vxo"erated when it was I ', shewn that in playing exhibition eames j at 1'iston. Scranton and oilier cities they j ' wre placing under instructii'ns from the New York National league ch:h and that the tnonev was collected by C-;s c!uh: Hums, I.iibert, Rohi tson. 'A -n in-nim n, ' " Fletcher. Kauff. Holke. Kosher, Peuitt. ! Doo!. in. Schupp and McCarthy, i The con1 m ism on sj id th.at any fu rt Ser I iolation of the rules relative to playing j in exhibition tames would he more sevpro- , v di-alt with and that in case any of the players whose fines were suspended should J violate the rule again the original fine j would h-' imposed and a nuich heavier ! one added. |