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Show I GRIEVANCES OF I BALLJLAVERS I Score of Affidavits Relate in Detail Alleged Indignities Offered by Officials. TINKER HEADS LIST Opportunities for Advance- ment Denied Players by Or ganized Baseball Methods. Chicago. Jan. 11. A score of affidavits affi-davits relating in great detail the I alleged indignities offered ball play- r-rs by officials of organized baseball. 1: together with copies of thr national agreement, stenographic reports of 1 speeches by baseball magnates, and copies of contracts and telegrams by , which the Federal league hopes to win the suit filed a week ago against I organized baseball were filed today. 1 The affidavits are headed bj a lengthy document from Joseph Tllik- er. now manager of the Chicago Fed orals, at a salary of $12,500 a year. I when C. II Ebbets. president of the Brooklyn National league club, offered of-fered him only $5000 a year, according accord-ing to the affidavit. Tinker wanted 7500. Ebbets termed this sum exorbitant and wrote Tinker, "while we expect to become- ;i first division team yes ;i possible championship contender, with all our bright prospects, it is. nevertheless, unreasonable for us to pay ou more than you have ever received re-ceived as a player for a championship club." Tiuker also made strong objection to the ten days' clause of the players contracts it allows the Indiscriminate Indiscrimi-nate sale of all ball players, he said Mordecai Brown's affidavit relates the cases of two ball players who he says were traded for dogs "Joe Can-tillon. Can-tillon. manager of the Minneapolis club of the American association, at one time traded a professional! ball player for a bulldog." he said "Your affiant also believes that Roger Bres-nahan. Bres-nahan. while manager of the St Louis Lou-is club of the National league, traded j a professional player, a pitcher named Hopper, to Dick Kinsella. then man-I man-I ager of the Springfield. III. club in I the Three ! league, for a bird dog " Opportunity for advancement is denied de-nied the players, according to William Will-iam Watkins, business manager of the Indianapolis Federals, by the fol- lowing methods of organized ball: 1 Farming out players J. "Covering up " This is when a minor club owner has a promising player whom he wants to protect irom the draft The owner negoti ates with a friendly major league club owner, according to Watkins, and an ostensible purchase made and the player delivered at the end of the season When the time comes for the major league club to reduce the number of players, the minor leapuer is returned to the club from which he came Otto Knabe, manager of the Baltimore Balti-more Federals, affirmed that players were not allowed to make any suggestions sug-gestions relative to the printed form of their contracts Ho also attacked the ten-day clause which, ho said, allowed the indiscriminate salo of players Othei affidavits were filed by Edward Ed-ward Hanlon, director of the Baltimore Balti-more club; Ennis T Oaltes. Pittsburg manager; Lloyd H Rickart. sccre-tarj sccre-tarj of the Federal league: William Perritt. Pittsburg, pitcher. Edward Konetchv, Pittsburg; Harry (Joldman. secretary of the Baltimore club, and Lee Magee of Brooklyn. A stenogra phlr copy of a speech of August Herrmann, president of the national comms?ion in which he ridiculed ridi-culed the Federal league club, also was filed. |
