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Show KAUFPS JIMP A BAD MOVE Boston Braves Contend He Is Outlaw McGraw Admits Player Must Be Reinstated. Rein-stated. LOSES IN BOTH LEAGUES Cannot Be Member of Organized Organ-ized Ball for Three Years, According to Rules. New York, April 30. President John K. Tener of the National league officially notified Robert B. Ward, president of the Brooklyn Feder&J league club, shortly before noon today, to-day, that Katlff "uould not be permit ted to play In the National league at this time His telegram to Mr Ward was as follow: "Answering your wire of reeterday relative to the Kauff Incident, you arc apprised that the player in question ques-tion will not be permitted to play in the National league at this time. (Signed) "JOHN K TENER, "President National League" New York, April 30. Whether the national commission will reinstate Bonny Kauff or whether the National league will order his return to the Brooklyn club of the Federal league were the big questions in the mind of every baseball fan in New York today. to-day. Kauff's jump from the Brooklyn club to the New York National league club five minutes before the New York-Boston National league game was started yesterday proved a bombshell bomb-shell for the baseball world when President Gaffney of the Boston Braves refused to allow his club to play the Oiants with Kauff In the field Mr Gaffney contends that Kauff is an outlaw, so far as organized bane-ball bane-ball Is concerned, because of his original orig-inal jump to the Federal league. Kauff Must be Reinstated. Manager McGraw of the New York club admitted today that Kauff would have to be reinstated by the national commission as a condition to his playing play-ing in the National league McM c-Gratv c-Gratv 6ald he was about to ask for Kauff's reinstatement and hoped to receive word today permitting Kauff to play with the New York club. Loses in Both Leagues. Chicago. April 30 Placed under Indefinite In-definite suspension, Benny Kauff, the Brooklyn Federal league plaver who jumped to the New York Nationals yesterday, apparently will have no chance to play in either league. President Pres-ident Gilmore of the Federal league said today. Kauff was suspended by the Federal league president after a conference over the long distance telephone with Robert B. Ward, president of the Brooklyn club, to which Kauff belonged. be-longed. "It looks to me," Gilmore said, "as if organized ball, or at least Manager McGraw of the New York cnib, made a mistake. There Is not a cbanoe for McGraw to play Kauff because he not only is tied up to a Brooklyn Federal league team by contract but he is an outlawed player, according to the rules of organized ball, and New York couldnt nse him without breaking the agreement under which they operate," Kauff is Ineligible. President B. B. Johnson of the American league said: "Kauff is ineligible to play with New York or any other team fn organized or-ganized baseball. According to the rules he would have to apply for reinstatement re-instatement and could not be reinstated reinstat-ed for three years " |