Clipping:A premature signing via personal contract
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| Date | Sunday, October 30, 1887 |
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| Text | There is a row in the National League over the signing of Elmer Foster, of the Minneapolis Club, by the New York Club. Manager Mutrie outwitted Pittsburg and Indianapolis squarely and secured the prize by taking foster out of town on the night of the 19 th and signing him early on the morning of the 20 th. Mutrie claims that he pays Foster a salary of $4,000, $1,000 of which was advance money. Indianapolis claims foster on a personal contract signed on October 17, and President N. E. Young, of the National League, has promulgated the Indianapolis contract. Notwithstanding President Young’s approval it is not likely that the Hoosiers’ claim will hold good. October 20 is the first day upon which contracts can be signed and any club or manager who induces a player to sign a contract before that date is liable to a fine of $500. Indianapolis will make a fight for Foster, but New York’s contract will hold good. Indianapolis also claims Pitcher W. H. Clark, late of Des Moines, who has signed with the Chicago Club. Clark also signed a personal contract before October 20, and he is, of course, only bound by his contract with the Chicago Club. There will be a lively time over these two cases, but the Hoosier club will lose both men, and will have to pay one thousand dollars in fines. |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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