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4 In 1900 the name of The Western League was changed to The American League, and the White Sox became a member of The American League, and I was at the head of the White Sox in Chicago, and have been from that day to this.

My apprenticeship and activity in professional baseball has extended over a period of thirty-eight years, as a player working for a salary, under contract, at fifty dollars per month on the old Alerts to the Presidency of The Chicago White Sox. We have an investment here in Chicago amounting to some eight hundred thousand dollars.

I have been a party to the formation of leagues; I have kept in tou intimate touch with the players in my own club, and in many other clubs; I have watched baseball grow from its infancy, and have seen it become the great national sport of this country. I have entered into the formation of clubs, and the drafting of agreements for the formation of leagues in good faith.