Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-27
BRUSH DEFIEs THE LEAGUE.
shortstop Davis Played With Giants
Contrary to Peace Agreement.

John T. Brush has thrown down eHe
gauntlet, not only to the American League
but to the other seven clubs Of his own
the Nationa-league, all OF whom were
parties to the peace compact at Cincinnati.
There Is not the slightest justification for
his act in instructing Manager McGraw to
play George Davis in New York yesterday
in violation of the terms of the peace
agreement. The players for whose services
various clubs of both organizations were
contending were assigned by the commit
tee whose action was afterward ratified
by the two leagues as body.
Davis was assigned to the Chicago Amer
lean League club, and under the agreement
he must play there or nowhere else.
Because Elberfeld was assigned to De-
troit and subsequently transferred to New
York In a trade, Mr. Brush maintains that
the spirit of the peace agreement Is broken.
That is nothing but an evasion, and no one
better knows it than Mr.. Brush himself.
But Brush has always been disturbing
factor in base ball from the very day that
he first broke into 1t. Heretofore-or pre-
vious to the Cincinnati peace agreement
he ruled things with an iron hand. and
came within an ace of running the game.
For selfish purposes h. endeavored to halt
the peace negotiations. going SO far as to
invoke the aid Of the law to en5otn the Ma
tional League representatives from ratify-
PEELED to withdraw the suits he instituted,
and in all likelihood he will be compelled to
retreat in the present instance.
The peace agreement once signed, then all
the players were placed upon the same
footing, whether their services were objects
Of contention among the clubs or not
.EIberfeld and Manager Barrows of the
Detroit club had a falling out. Elberfeld,
in the judgment Of Barrows, had lost his
usefulness so far as Detroit was concerned
in a T
whom he could make a deal that would be
In any way helpful to the Detroit team was
New York. Elberfeld's base ball status
was precisely the same that Of Carr or
any other member of the team. Probably
had the trade been made with any Ameri-
can League club other than New York no
protest would have been heard from Mr.
Brush. But he is fearful of opposition.
Notwithstanding the splendid showing of
his own team. He fears that if Griffith's
team is strengthened he may lose some OF
his patronage.
The new leading spirits In the National
League will stand neither for Brush nor
BrushIsm.
Garry Herman Of Cincinnati has already
served notice that he will not permit the
Cincinnatians to play New York If Brush
insists upon playing Davis.
It is now up to the other club members Of
the National League.
1t is for them to say whether the dog will
wag the tail or the tail wag the dog.
special from Cincinnati says: Presi-
dent Hermann of the Cincinnati club ad-
dressed a long letter to President PulIiam
Of the National League yesterday, in which
he says In part:
LAS important matter as the Davis case
being in your hands for seven days, should
at least have been submitted to your en-
ployers before any final action was taken
by you with respect thereto, especially so
If your action was directly opposite to your
expressed views on this same matter on
the very night that the so-called peace
compact was agreed to by our league. We
cannot and will not agree with you that the
peace compact has been violated by the
American League on account Of its trans
fer of Elberf1eld from Detroit to New York
Goth American).
I'm conclusion. the New York club is
IA. Our understanding of the peace COM
pact with respect to Player Davis has been
expressed We stand by that peace CON-
pact. and, therefore, request you to notify
the New York club that If 1t is their inten-
ton to play Davis while in Cincinnati dur
Ing that period, an announcement of ITO
game will be made to the public unless
majority OF the clubs in our league shall
decree otherwise before that time"
News of George Davis playing with the
New York Nationals reached the Chicago
American League grounds yesterday after
noon while President Ban Johnson was
watching the struggle between the White
Stockings and the New Yorks. II have
heard that Davis is playing with New
York this afternoon" said the president
"but at the present time have nothing to
say"