Clipping:The Beatin case resolved
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| Date | Wednesday, September 14, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting the Arbitration Committee meeting of 9/6/1887] President Sterns testified as to the manner in which he had engaged the battery, exhibiting telegrams proving that he had closed with the men through Mr. Reuter, then manager, on July 20, seven days before Cincinnati signed them, agreeing to pay $1,500 for their release, and to pay Beatin $300 and Kinslow $200 per month salary. Detroit thus established priority of acceptance. Manager Schmelz's claim on the services of the men was based on a contract made on July 27 with the men personally. Mr. Schmelz held, and so persuaded Beatin and Kinslow to believe, that the contract with the Detroit Club w3ould not hold, since it was made with Mr. Reuter, manager of the Allengown Club, and not with the men themselves. He also asserted that President Young had given on July 27 that the Pennsylvania State League had disbanded, and that the players of the Allentown Club were eligible to sign with any club. President Reuter, however, testified that he was authorized by the men to make terms for them with the Detroit Club. Affidavits by the players in question sustaining Mr. Reuter's testmony were then put in evidence. The case having thus narrowed down to a question whether the acceptance of Detroit's terms by these players, made by their authorization, through the Allentown Club instead of personally, was valid in base ball law was quickly decided unanimously by the committee. Some testimony was introduced showing that even after acceptance of Detroit's terms Allentown had by wire, as late as July 26, offered these men to other clubs, including Cincinnati, for $500 more than Detroit had agreed to pay. This showed the Allentown people up badly as hucksters in players, but did not affect the question at issue, viz.: Detroits' priority of claim and the validity of acceptance through an agent. [The text of the ruling follows.] |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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