The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-30
KAVANAUGH HANDS TEBEAU WARM ONE Says They Are Physical and
 Moral GoWardS TALKS OF GRIFFITH'S CASt Southern League President Says He Declines to Be lnsulted by
 Men of the Tebeau
 Calibre.

Memphis, Tenn, October 29.-(Special)- Another chapter is added to the contro- versy which started less than a year ago between Howard c. Griffiths. Ban John son, Judge w. M. Kavanaugh and others and this time Judge Kavanaugh is heard from The president of the Southern lague recently received a communication from George Tebeau under Louisville date informing him that his charges against Griffths had been probed but not proven. MT. Tebeau explained that each member of the national board was present except Judge Kavanaugh and had voted for complete exoneration of Griffiths and others.
 q had thought I would not pay ar- tention to the Tebeau letter. said Judge Kavanaugh, which cannot be construed
 into anything else than q gratuitous in- suit and l decline to be insulted by men of the class and calbre of Tebeau. l do not propose to have any controversy with him except such controversy as gen. tleman would have with one who had written himself down as absolutely bereft of all sense of decency and not entitled to the attention of respectable men.
 q preferred my charges against Grif- fths, Tebeau and his crowd last March. The national board refused absolutely to pay any attention to them whatever for more than six months although the fact was published in every newspaper in the United States that these charges had been filed and the charges were published. The national commission held two meetings for the purpose of trying this matter, at one of which MT. Griffiths appeared and by his attorney enjoned the national board from trying him, a confession of guilt as much as it was possible to make. think that Mr. Griffiths knows enough about law to know that there was no other construction to be put upon his action.
 Upon another occasion Mir Griffths and his crowd refused to appear although Tebeau left town on the day the meeting was to be held, stating that it was no affair of his. At this meeting P. T. Powers, president of the National asso- citation, and J. H. Farrell, the secretary. then and there repudiated the actions taken by Griffiths and his crowd and MT. Powers exercising the authority con ferred then and there removed MT. Grif- fiths from the national board. For this action MT. Grffiths sued MT. Powers and Mir Farrell for $25,000 each.
 "All at once Tebeau and his crowd thought 1t would be well to hold a meet ing and try Griffiths, Tebeau. Stalings and the rest of the malcontents. The meeting was called. only five days notice of which was given. l wired that it was impossible for me to attend on that date and asked that the meeting be postponed for one week. In reply Tebeau wired me that it was inconvenient to postpone the meeting I found then that the crowd had met in Cincinnati and because 1 was not present they adjourned to New York and notified me to be on hand there. The time was too short and the fact having been shown at Cincinnati that the jury was packed I declined to go to New York, but sent this crowd telegram which was published.
 "Then and there Griffiths, Tebeau, Ed Hanlon, holding Mir Burt's proxy, pre- ceeded to try the case.' Of course Grif- hths was exonerated. They could not convict Griffiths without convicting Te- beau, Stallings and Tip O'Neill. No man with any idea above an oysters expected any other verdict The only wonder Is that they did not convict me of high crimes and treasons, and eject me from the national board and expel me from baseball forever. I cannot account for this except that they lacked the courage.
 "'Tebeau, Griffiths and others of this bunch are physical and moral towards. They are strangers to the truth. They dare not submit the matter to an impar- tal jury They dare not face me per sonally or otherwise In the matter, for they know have the truth and all swear ing and whitewashing they might do can not change the fact"