The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-02
STORY ABOUT FREEDMAN
DUCIxY HOLMES HAS POOR OPINION
OF NEW YORK MAGNATE.

Ducky Holmes in reminiscent mood
told some characteristic stories of Freed
man and the ways he has of treating ball
players. Says Ducky:
'"Ihe year before I Joined the New
York team Jimmy Stafford was playing
left field, and one day in Chicago he
made home run ana won a tight game
for the Giants. Freedman was tickled
to death and that night went out and
bought $50 diamond pin and presented
1T to Jimmy. OF course Jimmy was all
swelled up on himself and thought he
was the whole thing. Mike Herman,
tEen playing with New York, made a
bet with Stafford that the pin would
cost him twice as much as it was worth
before the trip was over. Jimmy took
the bet. The next day he was caught
mapping on first, and that night he had
fine plaStered on by Freedman. The next
day he missed a thrown ball and was
soaked $25 more. He called the bet off
with Herman for he was afraid he would
owe Freedman money when he got back
to New York
81 was in Freedman's Office the day
before L left New York that season, and
he offered me contract for the next
year, calling for the same salary that
[ had been getting in 1897. I told him
to come again but he wouldn't listen and
said could sign that or nothing.
left and went home, and the first thing
! got when I got home was an envelope
mailed the same night I left New York
month less than I had drawn the year
before, together with the threat that if
| didn't sign it 1 couldn't play anywhere.
I sent it back to Andy and told him
I would play in a trolley car league in
the West before 1 would play for him at
such a figure.
But by the next year I was traded to
Baltimore, and there the first time we
played in New York the climax of my
troubles with Freedman came. Freedman
and a friend of his, named. l think,
Schneider, wealthy New Yorker, were
on the upper deck of the New York grand
stand, and when | came to bat Schneider
commenced to yell at me. Once before
when l was playing for Freedman [ had
been fined $50 for striking out while at
tempting to bunt, and this day l did the
same thing. Someone yelled, either
Freedman or Schneider, You lobster,
THAT'S why you were fired out of the
New York team
'"rhat made me mad and 1 walked to-
ward the stand and told Freedman a few
things that possibly do not appear in So
ciety novels, and then walked out to left
field. In a minute Freedman was out
CT the stand and out on the field. Walk
Freedman demanded that I be put off the
grounds. Lynch is hot-headed Irish
man and wouldn't stand for any inter-
ference. with his rights and something
" 1 want that man put off the grounds
before the game goes on, says Freed
man.
land who are your quoth Lynch. 4
want you to understand that I am the
master of this field while the game is on
and I don't take orders from you or no
one else
And I would have you know says
freedman, that 1 am the owner of these
grounds, ara what I says goes.
Does it?' asked Lynch Maybe it
does with the groundL2eper. but il
doesn't with me, so off the grounds and
let the game go
But Freedman refused to play with
me in the game, so Lynch finally for
feited the game to us, and later Freed
man was fined $1,000 but his fine was
| 3fter RENTED. l was suspended, but
| got cut an injunction and continued play
| ing, and the next time I was in New
| York got an ovation, while Freedman
| was nearly mobbed."