Show TEN DAY CLAUSE REMAINS National Commission Sits Tight on Player Demand b but t Gives In Slightly on Injury Contention By United 11 to Is The Telegram CHICAGO Dec 2 The Thc The ten days C CHICAGO release clause will remain In baseball contracts the National Baseball commission decided today to to- day This is the clause to which David Fultz pr president of the Ball Players' Players Fraternity so strenuously objected President Tener of the National l league ague president t Johnson of the I and nd Garry Carry mann Hers president of the the commission took this st st. stand nd ag I t the ball all players' players I demands after an all aU day conference with their attorneys Clarence Eldridge idge of Qt Chicago and Ellis ElIis ii of Cin Cm- V The national commission ho however hover ver as a concession to the players will Jn- Jn include in- in clude elude in the form of new contract hp hn 11 Iron fron clad obligation that the magnate magnat must retain and pay full fun sala salary to any any player injured while playing ball ban This obligation must be kept until the player is fully recovered Heretofore it has been the custom of many clubs to pa pay an injured mans man's salary salaD fifteen days and then release him without further obligation The optional clause to which the players and the minor league magnates objected will remain in lii the contract Under it ft a major league club can farm out a player and reclaim his services when desired The minor league eague magnates and the players ar argued argued ar- ar gued that the release to the minor j ar-j team should be outright Garry Herrmann mann made the announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the commissions commission's announce I action on these three important clauses and then rejoined the two league presidents and anI the lawyers In making his announcement Herrman Herrman Herr Herr- man laid special stress on their concessIon concession con- con cessIon in the matter of injury saying that this would woul be the most important action taken The ball players through Fultz have represented to the national commission corn com mission that great injustice has been I done players said Herrmann and the commission after investigation is convinced convinced con con- vinced that this is true We have therefore taken this action which will wili willbe be an iron clad protection to any player hurt while at work Herrman Tiers admitted that the national commission had taken up the question of extending the baseball contract so as to include the entire twelve months month instead of the playing season This was in order to give the magnates magnate control control control con con- over the players all the time and would have hare tended to eliminate barnstorming barnstorming barnstorming barn barn- storming tours winter basketball hockey bockey and other sports to which the magnates magnatE's have objected on the ground that they unfitted players for baseball and In some cases resulted in serious injury to stars The commission however however how how- ever according to Herrmann decided not to Include this In the new contract While the new form of contract willbe will willbe willbe be presented to the national and American leagues this will be purely purel a matter of or form as the national commission commission commission com com- mission has authority to fix the form of contract Herrmann mann said that the detail of ot the contract would be drawn up tonight but that probably there would be no change In the outline he presented These contracts will be presented presented presented pre pre- to the players just as aa soon as they are completed and it is assumed that the question of peace or war in baseball will rest on how the players' players fraternity view the contracts Herrmann refused in any way to discuss or answer an any questions as to the possibility of a clash with wills the players I |