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9 Hal Chase left The White Sox he gave us a notice that he was going to quit us in ten days, because we had the right to discharge him on ten days' notice if we saw fit to do so.

Baseball players' contracts for many years have contained this ten-day clause. When I was a player I always signed contracts with the ten-day clause in them, and never made any objection to it. There has never been any real objection made to the ten-day clause by any player, and, so far as my knowledge goes, The Baseball Players' Fraternity never made any objections to the ten-day clause, and I offered to take the ten-day clause out of Hal Chase's contract, but he would not consent to it.

Our Club had a contract with T. H. Easterly, a catcher. That contract had a reserve clause in it which covered the playing season of 1914, and we sent to Easterly a contract to play for us for the season of 1914, but he ignored