Show REAL BILL NYE IN BASEBALL tip rip oneill 0 nelli president of western league tells humorous story of player who sought release tip oneill president of the west ern league says be he knows of a real humorist who Is a young hall ball player not yet out of the minor leagues he said this young bill nye appeared be fore the board of arbitration of minor leagues and aired his grievances an follows I 1 played in this league in 1910 at the close of the season I 1 discovered they owed me for eleven days pay when I 1 went after my back pay they said they would let me know about it the next day after thinking over it a day they told me they had paid me and they got me to thinking the same I 1 played in fix that league again in 1911 they owed me for nineteen days back pay when I 1 went to them they said they would think ft it over they thought over it two days this time and then got me to thinking the same thing since then however the more I 1 have thought it over the more convinced I 1 have become that they not only owed me for eleven days in fix 1910 but for nineteen days in 1911 now your honors I 1 don t ask that this back pay be ordered up all I 1 do ask is that I 1 be declared a free agent and be released from this hypnotic league |