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Hal Chase. He entered into that contract on the 26th day of March, 1914. The contract was the form which had been approved by the National Commission, and was the one which was approved also by The Baseball Players' Fraternity. A voluntary petition was made by a great many baseball players in the major leagues, and I am informed, in other leagues, to The National Commission, operating under The National agreement, containing some seventeen requests. The result of that petition was a meeting between The Baseball Players' Fraternity and the parties to The National Commission about January 6th, 1914, and, as a result of that conference, a new baseball players' contract was adopted, which, from that date, became the standard form of contract used by The American and the National Leagues, and by my Club here in Chicago. Hal Chase signed a contract of that form. On the 28th of March, and two days after Hal Chase made this contract with the White Sox, I
