The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13
THREATS BY LONG GREEN.
| Manager Aschner Refused to Make
a Retracton of the Truth.

Manager Aschner Refused to Make
a Retraction OF the Truth.
Another incident has been unearthed
which exposes the disreputable character
of the Examiner and the bulldozlng,
threatening tactics resorted to by its man
aging editor, 'Long Green Lawrence,
when some truths outside of prize-fghts
and referees, comes to the surface which
reveals its dishonorable methods.
1t is baseball this time-the late tourna-
ment in which the Pacific Coast cham pion-
ship was won by the Los Angeles Tufts
Lyons, despite all Long Green and the
Examiner could do to prevent.
December THE CALL published dis
patch from Los Angeles telling of the
very unfair treatment the Tufts-Lyons
had received from the Examiner, which
showed prejudice in favor of the Alameda
AIerts or Nevada Stars winning the pen
nant. 1t related how the team and all its
friends south OF Tehachapi returned home
deeply indignant at the Examiner, and
uttering imprecatons upon it. The Ex-
aminer arbitrarily ruled out the crack
pitcher of the Tufts-Lyons, after the team
had complied with all the rules stipulated
teams friends called at the editorial de-
partment and demonstrated they were
answered next day with additional in
suits.
At banquet given in honor of the win
ming team at Los Angeles restaurant
these facts were stated, and the Examiner
was duly roasted" for it's unfair and
partial course.
Morris r. Aschner, connected with the
Los Angeles Herald, is now manager OF
the Tufts-Lyons. He arrived in this City
last Wednesday, and that night happened
to meet Long Green Lawrence about s
O. clock on Market street in front of the
Palace Hotel.
Long Green asked Manager Morris R.
Aschner if he had seen the article In The
CALL.
Manager Aschner replied that he had.
The bulldozing and threatening meth
DDS used by the suggester of referees for
crooked priZe-fghts to secure repudIa-
ton of the article and statement 10 the
contrary are best told by MIR. Aschner.
He said yesterday:
81 met Mr.. Lawrence in front of store
on Market street, in the Palace Hotel
block, about O'Clock IL can tell you the
exact time, it was $500 night before last.
He wanted me to make or write retrac-
tion of the treatment the team had re-
ceiyed from the Examiner and send it to
him for publication. | declined 10 do it.
l was not manager of the team at that
time, but the members of the team
nearly every one of them-and l can give
the names-told me how Harvey had been
ruled out of the game and of other unfair
treatment from the Examiner. l believe
them; / may say l know it is so.
"Mr. Lawrence said," Mr.. Aschner con-
tinued, "'that if l did not do that he would
drop the team altogether. intimating that
we would get the worst of it. / told him
to drop US if he wanted to. We are not
unoer the patronage of the Examiner any
more, or Tufts-Lyons, for that matter. 1
construed what he said to me as a threat.
l offered to bet Mr.. Lawrence 500 that
Harvey, the pitcher-he was about the
only pitcher we had-was under Is years
of age at the time he was ruled out. Mr..
Lawrence did not bet. In fact he said: I
know it. We had made up our minds to
rule him out, and he had to CO. Now,
what do you think of that?"