Show BAUM EXPRESSES HIS L Fultz Selfish in His Baseball Strike Stand I VIEWS ON PLAYER DEMANDS Speaking of ot the demands made by Fultz Fults and tho the action of ot the National association tion President Al Baum of ot the Coasters says The head o of the Players Players' fraternity announced some time ago that he ha would appear before the minor league convention In New Orleans Since that Unit meeting he has allowed the impression im mi- to prevail that he ho did at attend at- at tend that meeting Glaring Ignorance I J Fultz did not appear before th the cw Orleans convention nor was he ha u In New Orleans as far tar as anyone t. t not l surprising Ji learn ln His however nonappearance in view ww was of Ms tits apparent glaring Ignorance of t baseball conditions as admitted by him in his correspondence with Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- j Farrell The first and foremost of Mr JUl P demands upon the minor c leagues and the one which he has boa 1 V t Used sed so 50 extensively In his publicity campaign asks that players player Injured In the be paid full tuIl salary A while disabled or given their re re re- leases He also stated slated that the there thero t had bad been contract contracts permitting clubs to suspend without pay an injured player layer 4 After the thc receipt of ot Fultzs Fultz's writ ten demands and before the Ne Neu Orleans meeting Secretary Farr 1 wrote Fultz Fults asking him to name one oie minor league player who had failed to receive his full pay while or be given his release after ing two weeks' weeks full pay also to nal name nane e one player who had d been suspended us without fh pay a while h I injured d t answer to Farrell which was read to the meeting was that he was glad to learn since filing flUng his demands demands de de mands that such clauses had not been in minor league contracts for three years rears Misleading Items Evidently Fultz Fults Is lEI lither either woefully lacking in hi knowledge of or conditions or err he purposely r allowed a false lm- lm to gain ground to further his his publicity campaign Nto to to compel organized baseball to recognize him ps is 18 the head of ot the fraternity The statement that players are aro Compelled to pay their own expenses In lu ll reporting to a club in the minor I leagues is false and ami misleading A AI I player upon first joining a club is III isi I i always paid his lila transportation and expenses If Ie he falls falla to make good with that club and is sent to another league his expenses are ate again paid In la most cases however clubs do not pay the traveling expenses of the player upon joining his club after the I first season unless ls agreed upon in his I contract His expenses are are paid from the home city of oC the club to the I camp but not from the former fortner for for- mer home which he lie elects to visit during the off season which home might b bo be miles mUes away The minor leagues e do f not purpose T assuming this d additional n and unfair expense and certainly the tle Pacific Coast league will win not stand for tor it Over Signed One of ot the best answers to the complaint that the player has not been treated fairly is the the record of the Minor Lt League e ag association f. Secretary Secretary Sec See I Farrells Farrell's annual report shows that during 1916 over play players rS were signed by minor minor- leagues Fu Fultz Fult I has failed tailed to find one of ot these players players play play- i ers era who has not received full tull and Just compensation for his services while under contract Yet during the past three years the number o of baseball leagues In the United States and Canada has dropped from four fifty-four in 1913 to twenty-three twenty in 1916 mainly be because because because be- be cause the backers of many leagues have been u unable ble to stand the financial financial financial finan finan- cial losses |