The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-12-09
POLO NOTES

night after the game, eff a polo
war is started it means the death of
the game. I would like to fight and
SO would Mr.. Henley but at the
meeting Wednesday afternoon We de-
cided not to. AS things stand now
the four clubs in the Western League
have the cream Of the polo players
and if war was started we would
have everything to loose and nothing
to gain.
"The press lately has published
stories about Kokomo being tamper-
ed with by the Western League man
ayers. I'll simply state that the only
way kokomo can ever join our lea
que is in legitimate manner. If
Barnes can come to us and say that
he wants to join the Western League
and assures us that he has the con-
sent of the other Central League
managers to do so then his applica-
ton will be considered.
81 have been censured by the In
dianapolis press for tampering with
Nick McGilvary and refusing to let
Cohen have John Wiley. I will give
you the straight concerning both.
I'll admit that before the joint meet
ing Of the leagues last Sunday I
went to McGilvary and I told him
that the Western League was con-
sidering putting me in Indianapolis
with a polo club and I asked him to
join me. He wanted to know what
terms / could offer him and I told
him half interest in the club. Well
after the meeting the Western Lea
que had another meeting at the Clay
pool Hotel and it was there decided
not to enter Indianapolis. Why? Sup
posing I did establish Western
League club in that city. Necessarily
it would have had to be strong one
and / would have ia draw on the 9TH
er clubs for my team. | would have
taken Bone of Richmond, McGilvary,
Farrell of Muncie, O'Hara and Ban
non. Then l would have challenged
the Central League club for series
Of three games. But the result would
have been the end Of polo in the
west and besides the other managers
would have been reluctant to give
up their star players.
"Now about Wiley. Last year I
paid $500 for McGilvary and gave
Warner to Indianapolis. This season
I was forced to give up Nick to In
because Cohen was roar
ing about having a weak team. I
couldn't play Warner at Marion be-
cause Of some unpleasantness and
when Lations at Lafayette offered to
trade Wiley Dawson for him and
also to give me first claim on the
services Of Gavitt I accepted the Of
fer. John Wiley was sixth man on
my club and too good a player to
play bench. Lafayette regretted the
trade and wanted Wiley back but I
told them that l would first have to
see if any Western League club need
ed his services. telephoned Cohen
and he asked my price. [ told him
5000 and he turned the offer down.
Meanwhile Wiley asked me to release
him to Lafayette because he could
make better money there than at Ma
rion but I told him he would have to
wait Then the manager of the LAT
ayette club called me up and said
that Cohen had offered them Cogge-
shall for $500 and wanted to know
what kind of player he was. told
them he was not in the same class
with Wiley Shortly afterwards Co.
hen called me up and offered to pay
5000 for Wiley but I saw the Jews
game and told him he was not on
the market at the same price Cogge-
shall was selling for and Cohen end
ed the deal by saying that the only
proposition he would consider would
be for me to get him Farrell of Mum
Gle and I fatty declined to meddle
with a player on any other club. l
next asked Anderson if they wanted
Wiley and was told that they did not
then Durbin told me to sell him to
Lafayette which I did.
"The day before the meeting
where Cohen withdrew from the
Western League he sold out to the
Central League and he had the nerve
to come to this meeting as Western
League franchise holder. After he
quit, the Central League managers
called us up and wanted to know
what We would sell our franchise in
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