Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1913 — BALL PLAYERS BRING SUIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BALL PLAYERS BRING SUIT

Pitcher "Casey” Hageman Claims He Was Not Permitted to Play Ball Last Year. The Boston American League baseball club, owners of the world’s champions, who defeated the Giants last season for that title, has been made a defendant in the New York supreme court in behalf of W. M. (Casey) Hageman, a pitcher. After June 28 last he was not permitted to play either with the champions or with any other club. The club would not give him his release. The suit is started by the baseball players’ fraternity, which 1b known as “The Ballplayers’ union,” an organization formed for the interests of the players in the big leagues. The amount sued sos is |1,400. * According to the complaint, Hageman and tiie Boston club entered into a contract September 11, 1911, to be engaged at a salary of S4OO a month from April 15 to October 15, 1912.

There is-nothing in the complaint to tell what the trouble was. The management refused to let Hageman play, and theerfore broke Its contract. AMO, the management arbitrarily refused to release him. Hageman assigned his rights, ss far as the suit is concerned, to the fraternity.

“Casey” Hageman.