The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-25
Nails Rumor of Having Ac-
copied Terms From Den
yer as False-Well Salts
fed and Will Continue
Here.
Deal for National League
Park, ThiSCitY, NotCIosed
by American StOckhold-
ers, as Reported Yes
terday.

The rumor factory must have worked
overtime yesterday judging from the
number of baseball stories that were
Matched in the gossips' incubatoTs and
sent broadcast over the land. Both,
strange to relate. pertained to Wash
ington- One had Delehanty jumping 10
Denver, and q second reported the deal
closed for the National League Park.
in this city, and bulletins were printed
to the effect that all American League
games hereafter would be played on the
Seventh Street grounds.
Del Stays Here.
Anent the Delehanty rumor, Presi-
dent Sexton, of the Western League,
sent the following dispatch TO Sec
Rotary j. H. Farrell. OF the National AS
sociatioD of Baseball Leagues, yester-
day afternoon:
''DeIehanty, of Washington, accepted
terms with Denver and wants 10 report
there now. Shall I permit deal 10 go
through or stop it? Answer quick.
The following reply was sent by Sec
Rotary Farrell:
''Stop1it by all means. We should not
EA4bG-2A dcS IL-S u45CAElii4t Oi tES ulaJSi
leagues in this their most important
case, nor deprive the Washington Club
and the American League of one of its
most valuable assets-Player Delehanty.
We expect fair treatment from the
American and National Leagues. Piracy
and honesty never entered into partner
ship
The two foregoing dispatches have
gotten Delehanty into peck Of trouble
They have been printed broadcast
throughout the country. and place him
in as bad a predicament as he was IN
when he jumped from the Statesmen to
play with the New York Nationals
That the first dispatch is incorrect. is
plainly shown by the telegram received
by the Senator's left fielder, directly
after the bail game yesterday. from D.
c. Packard, president OF the Denver
Club
This morning Delehanty handed The
Times reporter the following telegram:
Denver. Col. April "a
''E. Delehanty, Oxford Hotel, Washing
ton, D. c.
'WilI give you 4,e00 for season of
i've months. or pro rata for such time
as you play. Appreciate your affairs
May be arranged and you return TO
major league before season closes.
Nothing to prevent your playing here.
Wire answer Immediately. and If favor
able. come at once, as We open on the
2Sth and you must be here then
Cd. c. PACKARD"
This dispatch was received by Del the
same tine that Secretary Farrell sent
MS dispatch to the president Of the
Western League, and clearly proves the
incorreetness OF the latter.
Surely this does not look as though
the Senator's big Ieftfelder has ac-
cepted terms from the Denver club
Asked Lotus Advice
That Del has 10 idea Of deserving the
Senator's is plainly evidenced by the
fact that he showed the dispatch to
Manager Tom Lotus Immediately upon
its receipt. and asked his advice as to
whether he should answer it, saying that
he had 10 desire whatever TO sign with
the Denver club, or whether to dIsre-
gard it altogether Lotus advised him
30 let the communication go unan-
sWered
It IS true that Del was dickering with
the Denver club, and not a great while
ago at that. For several weeks it ap-
peared as II Delehanty's affairs with the
Washington club would not be straight
ened out. and when the big meadow man
had almost given up all hope o. coming
10 terms and playing in the major
leagues. he looked for MS living else
where
He had received two kilograms from
his brother Tom. who is captain of the
Denver Western League club, saying
that he thought matters could be so ar
ranged whereby Del could play with that
club II his differences with the Wash
fngton management were not settled sat
isfactorily
Then finally, when it seemed that his
estrangement could not be fixed up,
Del wrote 10 his brother asking what
terms he could receive from the Den
yer management If he failed TO connect
In Washington This was fully two
weeks ago. Only last Tuesday. the
opening day OF the American League.
was the ''Delehauty tangIe'' uuraveled
and he was free 20 play with the Wash
ington club. Then and not unit Then
was II that Del dropped his melancholy
mood. and was the same DeIehanty OF
last ye3F-a breezy, active, and hard
working ball player.
This morning Del said:
II was never more happy IN my life
than I vas last Tuesday, when Tom
Lotus told me that everything had been
settled and I was eligible to play with
the Senator'S. ! went IN the first game