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Show i CHRISTY MATHEWSON SAID TO BE ! SLATED AS CHIEF OF NEW UNION ! ...... f i ( i i t f iifi iW "vi: ' Vi i ill Organization of another brotherhood or "union" has been started among the major league baseball players, It has been learned in some quarters. Quiet movements have been made among the players all season, but the organization has cot been completed and its complete plans will not be announced an-nounced until near the end of the season, or until winter. Efforts have been made, or will be made, to get Christy Mnthewson, former Giant star pitcher, who now Is recovering from tuberculosis at Saranac lake, to act as the president of the organization, either in an active ac-tive or honorary capacity. Desire Member on Board. The organization will attempt to get a representative of the players on the national advisory board, which consists con-sists of Commissioner Landia, John A. Heydler, president ot the National league, and Ban Johnson, president of the American league. The players take the po.slllon that they are entitled to have a voice In the sessions when rules and regula tions which affect their end of the game are considered. At various times since the old players' play-ers' fraternity ceased to function, the players have been considering the formation of another organization. The demand for such a protective body was felt to have been acute last winter when "Babe" Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Plercy were suspended for violating the antl-barnstorm rule. Think Rule la Unjust. The players took the position that the rule was unjust to them and that practically all of the rules along the same line were drawn from the club owners' viewpoint alons. Efforts also will be made, It is understood, un-derstood, to have a different form of contract adopted in the major leagues. The players maintain that under the present system they haven't a chance to have a voice In their own affairs and have no appeal from a form of virtual "slavery" that the present form of contract places them In. The players also would like to have some kind of an arbitration board for the review of salary disputes. |