Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-21 | Page 38 | Fultz Refuses to Draw in his Horns

FULTZ REFUSES TO DRIKI01S Says Players' Fraternity Will Stick; Salary Is Not an Issue. By Internationa News Scrvico. NttW YORK, Jan. I'o. Uavid L,. Kultz, organizer arid president nf the- llii-soba.il I 'la v h' frn tern i ty, rot uses to l)u awed by the statements of Presidents Toner and Johnson and tin bi le-apno mas-nates mas-nates that the threatened strike of baseball base-ball flayers hanlly interests tliern. lie. issiie;! a statement tonipht dnelarlns; that i ho playors wilt sth-k togct her. He says t hey ha ve. ahva ys bnen willing1 to arbi- I I a te, "bn i we are no lontrer willing to be done." His statement says: The controversy arose over a petition peti-tion whleh the I.asebatl Players' frn-tfiniiy frn-tfiniiy presented to the national commission, com-mission, the supreme court of baseball, base-ball, and the national board which lias iui lsd lei ion over the minor leagues. This petition asked for certain revisions revi-sions in the customs governing t he KHTim to which the fraternity deemed the players were entitled. The petition, peti-tion, in so far as it applied to the major leagues, was granted by ttie commission. The national hoard, at le-ast so -we arc in formed by the public press, which Is our only source of informal infor-mal ion. tabled our requests without hearing1. Denies Salary Motive. Continue. attacks arc heinc made t o obscure our issue by bringing in t lie sa liu-y question. Tho player is pictured as overpaid and deserving of little consideral ion. It Is true some of Ihcin draw biy salaries, hut maity nf them do not. The public will l.e surprised to know that there was a sa tary paid in the big leagues last year of $100 per month. Ty Cobb's salary did not help tills oung man to any great e tent. At any rate, this controversy has absolutely nothing noth-ing to do wit h the salary (pi est ion and the owners' attempts so to convince con-vince the public are insincere. For three years wo have attempted to procure traveling expenses for the players and for two years we have endea ored. ih rough pa lien t. tactful petition and almost supplication, to have instituted a decent method of handling the players' claims. In all j this we have failed utletl. J Limit Is Reached. ! Th owners know that if thev could j induce the big fellows to break away from the minor leaguers thev could trim us In sections without the slightest slight-est difrienlty. Nothing doing, gentic-nicn; gentic-nicn; If we go down, we'll all go together, to-gether, but we'll go down with our shoes on. It may be unfortunate for the big league magnate, but ho- must Buffer for the company he Keeps. We made numerous protests against our treatment over a period of vears, but no one seemed interested." We parsed over it seventv times seven, whthi the little fellow got the worst of it. but now we are In a corner and we arc going to tight. We are always al-ways willing to arbitrate, hut we are no lonpftr willing to he done. Not only will we tight, but we will win, because we are right. Carl Morris, Giant Heavy Who Meets Jack Dempsey at Murray t - i 1. i: V- 'V7V . "1 v ' ' '