Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-14
THE DIAMOND.
TAYLOR CASE
 WONT DOWN
May Be a Farce of a Trial Taylor Prepared to Fight Clark Griffith Believes Taylor is Honest.

V Dreytuss very ill in his Pittsburs home, and John T. Brush on his way to Hot Springs, the trial" of Pitcher Jack Taylor before the National leagues board of directors in this city to-day is likely to result ill either D tarce or postponement.
 Secretary Fred Knowles will no doubt be the proxy for lIr Brush should the meeting be held, and it was said last night that Mir Dreyfuss had also appointed q proxy.
 Just how those at the meetin. will DC able to prove any crookedness on the part of Taylor is q puzzle to base ball sharps generally.
 A. H. Solkn of Boston and James A Hart of Chicago. the latter of whom nas made the charges against Taylor will be the only two of the board at the meeting
 Taylor arrived here yesterday. it is said. He came on direct from St Louis, and brought his attorney along. He denies emphatically that he is guilty or wrongdoing. and defes his accusers To produce evidence of guilt. Taylor says that he never made q remark to the effect that he got $500 for losing il game in Chicag go," and says that the tlttsburS yarn to the effect that Dick Mccormick won a bundle of money by betting against him in the game of July 3O is of the tiimsiest texture. He says that if Mccormick won any money he knew nothing of it; that he was not in prime shape to pitch the fI1In h.,., lr stayed up late at ball the previous night, and that he told a number of his friends not to bet on him before the game. Taylor inhmates that If the nagnates take any action in bis case without actually proving him guilty Of the charges he will seek legal redress without delay. A base ball court is a far different thing from court of law The base ball men have done many things ill the past that would not stand legal test.
 But as the game is run on the lines of close corporation, ball player has small chance for getting the best end of any deal. In Taylor's case the ago to blacklist him. but it is now stated that several of them have lost their nerve. If by any chance Taylor is shelved. not openly blacklisted. there may be trouble between the two bis leagues. In word. Taylor must be blacklisted and there must be con vincing proof of wrongdoing. or he must be eXonerated and allowed to play ball again with the St Louis Va. tionals. Unless one of these results is attained it will not be surprising if the American league steps in to defend Taylor 10 the limit.
 Clark Griffith. the manager of tho New York Americans, said yesterday: If they try to freeze Taylor out of the business by suspending him tacit. ly among themselves. there will be some trouble. In such an event. the player will receive the most unfair. unsportsmanlike treatment imaginable l do not hesitate to say that if he is punished without being proved guilty every ball player in the two leagues will rise in protest. This case has been made out of whole cloth Taylor is big, overgiown boy who probably talks too much at times: but I'll bet my life that he is honest. Tn fact. I never. in twenty years experience. have seen player who was not always on the level. l know that there are gamblers in Pittsburg who would like to fix ball players. but no player would be foolish enough to place himself in the power of such persons. As far as Chicago is concerned. let ne say that the infer. eDee that Comiskey was the man who paid $500 to Taylor is a cold blooded lie. pure and simple. played nearly all ny base ball life with Comiskey and want to say that there isn't square-. fairer sportsman in the world. Brush knows what man Of integrity is and so does every mag nate and player in the country. Tay- ior has done 10 wrong. and all this talk is the result of idle gossip about some thing that never occurred. IL is one thing to say a player is crooked and anothe. thing to prove the charge. If Taylor sold out. to whom did he sell. Low much did he receive. when and where: That is a combination query that these very wise accusers cannot answer, and I'll bet or !t."
 KID MCOY. TRAINER.