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Show JOHNSON BIOS Agitation Merely Designed to Keep Up High Salaries, Says American League President. ; CHICAGO, .Tan. IS. Settlement of the threatened baseball strike situation rests with the club owners and presidents of the two major leagues, President Johnson John-son of the American league announced today upon his return from New York. The national baseball commission, he said, will take no part in tho controversy. con-troversy. "This strike propaganda is clear to the base oa II world," Johnson said. " U simply is a move on the part of a few players and President Fultz of the Baseball Base-ball Players' fraternity to maintain high salaries big salaries that we paid during the Federal league fight." President Johnson said that the majority ma-jority of American league players will report even it a strike Is called. Nearly loo al read y have signed, he said. H e a Iso said t ha t he had received a letter from Manager Griffith of the Washing- ' ton club advising that members of the club arc signing and that no trouble waa expected. Johnson said the Washington cluh . members were supposed to le the most j enthusiastic for the fraternity iu Liifl j American league. Percy Stands Pat. , -: IJy International News Service. BOSTON, Mass., Ja. U. "Walter Marauvillo will sign a contract for 1917 at the terms offered him or else get out of baseball," declared President Percy , Ha ugh ton today upon his return from New York. Maranvilte is a "hold -out." -It is believed that the Braves' star shortstop short-stop received a salary of :?H0ut in 1916. He is said to want between $9010 and $10,000 to play ball this year. Haughton made tbe following statement 1 In regard to the threatened strike of baseball base-ball players: "The club owners are united and will refuse to grant tho demands of the bail players. Ball players arc wll paid h nd have not any cause to complain about the treatment t hat they have received from the club owners." White Sox Balk. By International News Service. ; CHICAGO, Jan. IS. President Dave F1.1l t a and the Players' fraternity will find ! little support among tho Chicago Wliito I Sox in a striko program me. Eddi Ci -I r-oi t e, Joe Benz and Left y Willi amp, all ; members of the. fraternity, say they will ; not heed a strike call. Williams, who arrived in Chicago yes-, yes-, tenia y, declared that those ball play era to whom he had talked were mystified a to thfi reasons for a strike t hrca t and 'that if it is merely in sympathy with tho minor leagues, on which the frat ernity has only a slight hold, it is believed fov of the major leaguers would favor a stri ke. Most of the White Sox stars are under ironclad contracts and would not be a f-f f-f pc ted bv a walk-out of players who have , not signed up. Garry Sounds Warning. CINCINNATI. Jan. IS. Tn a statement today. Chairman August Herrmann of the national baseball commission cautions th Baseball Players' fraternity not to ba 1 misled by false statements. The statement state-ment follows: "Mv a t tent Ion has just been called t o bulletin No. 2, sent out by David K KnltK. president of the Baseball Players' fraternity. "In referring to requests recently madq by the fraternity to t he national board of the National association, he statof that the requests have ben tabled without consideration. This statement is false. '"The reusts have been acted upon under date of January 5 and the action has been promulgated throughout the country. "Members of the fraternity should not be misled by false statements." Beck a Brewer. By International News ScrWe. . MILWAt'KKE. "is., Jan. IS. Inflelder Zinn Beck of the St. -Louie Cardinals ha been sold outright to the Milwaukee el no of the Amerh an association, it was announced an-nounced fills afternoon by Mrs. Heine II. Brltton, owner of the Cardinals. Details De-tails are withheld. Manaarer Sha y of the M ilwauke rhib h.as been here sine1 Wednesday, but wiil leave for Cleveland late today, when he expects to buy several p'ayers fur the Indians. Collins, Braves, Signs. BOSTON. Jan. 1. J. Edgar Collin, the first mndr of the Boston National league hascba 11 club to sign thi? yr;i r. sent Ids roriVHi-t to Business Mana gpr Hancood today. Kvcrs, Gowdy an.! . Kontchv arc the only other members of the team under contract. Demaree Resentful. By International News Service. CI IK 'AGO, Jan. 1 S. At I wuna-Oe. who had been i-.'-nnb-d as one of tb .splcs-mcn .splcs-mcn tor the players' I'vatei - tncav wrote a leiicr to Dave Full'. Uecl.-.r.rg he considered It unfair to inape the Cuhs (Continued on Following Fagc.) COAST LEAGUE CHAT . . . 4 (Continued From Preceding Page,) coin just at present, and he does not need to consider the salary offer made him hy Connie Mack. "The only baseball ambition I have," said Ping today, "is to stick right here in San Francisco and play with the Seals. Certainly I'm not going east and play for tlie money Mack has offered me. I'd have to take my family with me, and it would cost me a tot of money. I'm satisfied out here, and I think I ought to be let alone ' where 1 am happy. "If Mack wants me to play hall for him he's got to show me why. If he doesn't show me, I'll stick right here on the job I've got and 'play Sunday hall in the bushes. "I want to play with the Seals, that's all. And I'm willing to make some bets that I knock the ball over that new right-field right-field fence of Hen Berry's more than once, too. I don't care how far he puts it away from the home plate." . SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IS. Northern club owners are by no means inclined to side with Frank Chance of the Angels and his attitude anent the threatened baseball strike. "We'll close up our gates and shut down our parks," he is quoted as savins:, "if our players go on strike. It will do the people good to have a rest from baseball." Discussing the question, Hen Perry of the Seals said today: "There will be no shutting down of our plants. I don't think it will come to that, because I don't believe the ball players will strike. But if they do strikeand I'd just as soon see the issue settled now as later we will have our teams on the held. I can speak for San Francisco and say we'll he ready to face tlie barrier, strike or no strike." A'ernon is to train at Vernon park, according ac-cording to advices received in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The two southern clubs have a working agreement by which tliev alternate alter-nate in tlie use of the Los Angeles erounds. This year it is the turn of the Tigers to train away from home. Of course, there is nothing in the rules to interfere, with their training at Vernon, alt hough t hey will not he able to play any exhibition games thore either with1 tlie Cubs or any other team. 4 Report has it that Billy Burke, last ! year trainer for the Saints, will act as i trainer for the Detroit Tigers this year. I It is known that Tuttle. who has' had j that job for some time, is to leave, and ! Burke can get the berth if tie cares' for It. So far he has not decided. The report that Tnrletder Walter Hammond Ham-mond of the Springfield baseball ctuh of the Fa stern league had signed with the Oakland dub or the Pari tie Coast league seems to be a bit premature. President William K. Carey of rhe Green So- claims Hammond could not sign with the Coast leaeue club for tlie very reason that he is the property of tlie Springfield club. Carey says that late last month Cal Ew-Iner. Ew-Iner. president of the Oakland dub, wrote him regarding a probable purchase of the hnrd-hiuina: in'ieldrr and that though op tails were discuss-ed necotiat ions had I not closed nor had they traveled verv far! m a straight direction. Two major league ' (.tubs, according to Carey, have also sent a lout' for some informal ion about Hammond. Ham-mond. Tlie report from Oa klaud was tha t ' Manager el Howai d had signed Hammond. Ham-mond. The player Is now eoa'hii:ir ihe 0K-'ite university basketball team Evidently Evi-dently thf wc.rd was dropped in Oakland fhar the Coast league club was on Hammond's Ham-mond's trail and that miuht have ted so;r.e.,v v to -nt t hires twisred enough so as to read that Mammon. 1 had been signed. SprinslieM i M;:ss. i Republican. |