Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1912 — REAL BILL NYE IN BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

REAL BILL NYE IN BASEBALL

Tip O’Neill, President of WesternLeague, Tells Humorous Story of Player Who Sought Release. Tip O’Neill,'president of the Western league, says he knows of a real humorist who is a young ball player not yet out of the minor leagues. HP, said this young Bill Nye appeared before the board of arbitration of minor leagues and aired his grievances as follows: “I played In this league in 1910. At the close of the season I discovered they owed me for eleven days' pay. When I went after my hack pay they said they would l®t 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 played in that league again in 1911. They owed me for nineteen days back pay. When I went to them 1 they Bald they would think it over. They thought’ over it two days this time and then got me to thinking thesame thing. Since then, however, the more I have thought it over the more convinced I have become that they not only owed me for eleven days in 1910, hut for nineteen days In 1911. "Now, your honors, I don’t ask that this hack pay be ordered up. All I do ask is that I be declared a free agent and be released from this 'hypnotic league.’ ”