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Show PLAYERS' FRATERNITY HAKES A SENSIBLE REPLY TO HERMANN 1 Outline Season Why They Want Present "Farm" Roles Changed. NEW YORK. June 5. Bom of the reasons why baseball players In the big leagues want to change the system under un-der which they are "farmed" out to. minor league clubs at salaries less than those called for In their original contracts, con-tracts, are contained In a letter written by David L. Fultr. president of the Baseball Players' fraternity, to August Herrmann, chairman of the national commission. The letter Is in reply to on written by Mr. Herrmann In answer to the player' first communication on the subject. There can be no intelligent de-aiaJ," de-aiaJ," lead.. .Mr. VulU iaUax. Vo the soitudnees of the principle that so long as the player in held under a Mgned contract he must receive the salary the signed contract calls for. The common practice of forcing men 4o go to other ten mi and allowing these teams arbt trarily to cut their salaries, can have neither legal nor moral justification. "You say after the plser is transferred trans-ferred it is a question of negotiation between him and his new owner. How can it be a question of negotiation when the player is compelled ry yes! regulations to sign with one partic ular team or quit hi- profession There can be no negotiation when one party is absolutely nt the mercy of the other; oth-er; it then became a question of dnress. "When the situation is reverse'! and the major league recruit plays far better bet-ter ball than he ia expected to. he can't 'welch' on his agreement and refuse to play unless he gets more money. Whv. then, hould the owner have the right to withdraw from his contract when he finds- his bargain is not quite ee good as he expected T" The letter closes with a renewal of the request that the commission compel owners to live up to their contracts with players. Lawson Shows Poor Form at Newark NIWAEK, N. J., June 5. Itot Law son of Bait Lake City made hla first appearance In competition last night silica the accident in which he broke a collar bone about a month ago. The former world's champion showed plain lj that his absence from ths track haa lsft him In poor condition. He substi rated for Frank Cavanaugh In a match race with Joe Focler and lost In straight heats. I.swson also stsrted is the half-mile professional championship, but did not ?ttalifv. Frank Kramer won the final rora Clarke and Oremla. Hill finished second, but was disqualified for "roughing'' "rough-ing'' Clarke . Ooullet and Kogler were shut out of the final hy Clarke and Kramer. Grenda and Kngler won the three-mile tandem race from Hill and Collins, Cameron and .Tokus, Anderson and Han sen, and Krebe and Loftus. Donald MrDougal, the amateur champion, cham-pion, equalled the world's half-nnle record when he won the final in :Srt2-.V Goullet won the five-mile open from Clarke, Kramer, roller and Hill in the order Darned in 10:40. Walter A. BardgeU. former professional profes-sional rider, left today for New Haven, where be will manage the bike track for the season. Another Oermao rider appeared upon the scene yesterday, and entirely unheralded, un-heralded, too. John V Maher. with a pronounced Irish countenance and a fine German accent. Is the new comer. He Is an amateur and In 1911 ran third in the amateur championship of Germany. The hie Paris to Bordeau road race, run In France &inday. May IS, was won bv a voung Belgian rider named Mottlat, who was a rank outsider. Cyril Vmnhmiwaert. the Belgian who rode in the New York six-dav race two years ago. wae second, and Vanderherghe, another an-other Belgian, was third. The race wa ridden in a driving rain and the riders did not approach the record made by Conitant Huret. the great French nder, in 1899. Fife money in thie race, which is open to both amateurs and professionals, was $500. Walter Kutt, the winner of the last six-day race in New York, won a four-cornered four-cornered match race from Thorwald Fllegaard. ftchuermann and Moretti at the Olvmpic track, ia Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May IS. The final danding in the 4'Grand Prix of Bmeeeln" (paced) on Hundar. May IS, resulted in a win for Carl s;tl dow, the German, over Guigaard. Huv brecbts and Walthour, the Atlanta rid er. The race wae run in three) heats, twenty thirty and fifty kilometers, Sal dow winning all three of them. Guig nard anil Walthour, the foreign exchanges ex-changes pay, suffered punctures and hc cldents to their hirvcles when their prospects of winning were bright. At Dresden. Gerrnanv, FlnndaT. May.' IS, Otto Merer won the scratch rae .' from Willy TCirenr. and Schrage. Lo-)' reus won the lap race from rVhragel' and Snsamileh, and the handicap re- ' suited ia a win for rVhrage over Lorenz ' and Hussmileh. Tn the hour paced race!1 and in the shorter paced race at twentv ' kilometers, Beheuermsn won over Peter 1 Gnnther, T.eviennois and Thomas. r Joha Valentine is the official referee ' at the new motordrome track. |