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10 it and played last season with the Kansas City Club in the Federal League.

Attached hereto is a copy of the contract made between The American Baseball Club of Chicago and Hal Chase. It contains the ten-day clause. That clause is substantially the same in every baseball contract made during the past twenty-four years or more, and, during all of that time, that clause and its recitals have been agreed to by players and club-owners alike. The so-called ten-day clause is not only reasonable and fair, and is so considered, but one which enforces on the part y of the player the highest order of skill and effort of which he may be capable, and insures to the baseball going public a guarantee that the contestants will give to each and every game their best and most skilful effort in their attempt to play the game to win. Without such effort on the part of each and every player, the base game of baseball would rapidly