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Show GUTS MUST WAIT FOR PAY Contacts of Player-Authors to Be Seen First Umpires Um-pires Praised. New York. Oct 13 When the New York Giants applied to the national commission yesterday for tho losers' share of the world's receipts. thv did not fret the monfv Th.-v u. formed that the commission wished first to see the contracts of the plav-er-authors so that It might be assured thaJr engagements to report the uorld'a series were entered Into be fore, September 17 The national commission laid down the rule last week that no baseball player or manager might writ for the newspapers durlnc any future world series. It was decided, however, that players who bad contracts dated Sep tember 27 might write this year. If was announced last Monda that those player authors who could not produce bona fide contracts signal before the late specified, would b penalized, but it did not announce tta penalties. Giant Players to be Paid. As a matter of fact no penalty i? likely to be inflicted and the Giants' share of approximately 2.162 each In, the series money probably will be paid In short order practlcall Intacl The sum of $ino, howew-r. will bi deducted from the New York's play ers' share because of the fine of hai amount Inflicted upon Arthur i- t er for his excited conversation with I'mpire Connelly last Thursday The Giants themselves have voted $10U0 of rhelr money to the widow of John Murphy, formerly ground keeper ai thf Polo grounds who died p q Manager McGraw of the Giants talked with the commission on the subject of player-authorship McOrmw expressed himself opposed on ceneral principles to members of baseball teams contributing to the newspapers on baseball topic. He had don , more or less sunch work himself, he laid as the practice had bsOom quite ' general, but he had come tn the rrn -lusion that the custom was a bid! one. as public criticism of one plaver by another affected club discipline adversely Umpires Praised. The work of the umpires In the games of the series Just praised by Leslie H Constans. sec retary of the Pittsburg National League Hub. who represented the commission In Its business dealings In preparations for the series and while the eames were on "If is the unwritten law of th world's series." said Mr Constan? "that there shall b no kickinp o m decisions of the umpires. This law waB observed commendably through out this year's series. 'In the absence of wrangling, the umpires were able to devotp thMr entire energies to the gUIng of cot rect decisions " |