Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1914 — PLAYERS COMMON LABORERS? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLAYERS COMMON LABORERS?

Georgia State Law Says They Are, While President Tener of National League Says No. Are ball players common laborers? That is the latest question that is agitating the fans. If you ask the players themselves such a question (you know they all have plenty of artistic temperament) they will probably be insulted, says Detroit Journal. Warrants are now out for a Federal league scout who Is said to have tried to entice players of the Valdosta and Waycross teams of the Georgia state league to jump. Pres. James Sinclair, at whose

request the warrants were issued,'invoked the George contract labor law, which was passed to prevent anybody from tampering with laborers under contract. They may consider ball players laborers down south (and you can’t wonder that they do when men go out to the ball park and toil in the boiling sun day after day when they might be Booling themselves off in the shade of the magnolia ? trees, but President Tener of the National league doesn’t think so. “Baseball players are neither miners, hod-carriers nor ditch diggers,*’ declares the National boss and governor of Pennsylvania," baseball players are professional men and professional men do,not. strike. I am glad

the strike is settled. However, I don’t believe the settlement arrived, at will be permanent, owing to the belligerency of some of the baseball magnates.” - _ - Funny how Tener in one breath declares the players professional men and won’t strike and in the next says that the settlement won’t last! Not very consistent,- eh?

President John K. Tener.