The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-12
Baseball War Between Pulliam and
 Murphy May Make Meeting Warm

Unless there is a hitch In the pro- gram. the meeting of the big leagues m Chicago next week will be the livliest affair ever pulled or at. a basepaii gathering, not even barring the ceie- hrated event in Birmingham In isos
 when this city had just been awaroeu the Chattanooga franchise, ..h
 Local baseball people Will reau at interest. the following notlces- gnu fine safr1e time with regret. MT. Murphy of fine Cubs and Harry ePulltem, pIesi
 lent of the National League, potn ns,s ss',s lots of friends in Montgomery. sn1 ,s,, tnio ao sAS rInrside seat at the National League meeting to be held here next week might be more apprecIa.eS ps aS haseball fan than the best point oI vantage at the deciding game oi a worlds series. Judging from coIres- pondence that has passed ,ol 5et,weehl President Puiiiam, an of the nsrES Nai51rr. Herr- mann. of the Baseball Commssion, which related to President Murpny, oL the Cubs, there Is pretty certain 10 DO s0snhi rhsirn,an Hermann figures as an advisor to Puliiam; inside history .o. fhe Chance Murphy feud, which was patched up. several weeks ago. i9 BlNSn. snd Puliam o9 0PenI1s Insut ItaIeS Sms su or he viii
 A..4 tell how the Chicago club conducted ltg business affairs during the last New York Chicago series here.
 Probably the letter by Chairman Herrmsnn to MT. Pulliam will be of keenest interest to Chicago Ians, doa a0o it has to do with that famous xlO,VOy bonus which President Murphy prom ised to the Cubs. Hermann lets ny at Mr. Murphy when he calls attention to the fact that the reason Mir. Murphy CT. fered the Cubs a bonus was because ne knew the rules forbade giving pon1s 1s and that Murphy was not in ignorance of fine rule, for he was the one most in- atrumental in the passage Of that ruts.
 Some Inside Facts.
 The whole correspondence reeks Miss sIs racy bits of inside baseball history pr psrticular interest to Chicago fans, as Murphy and Chance figure In all o1 t. PuIiiams letters sound as sLIalshs erom-the-shoulder as those oL auo at. h1.
 The story in the letters .unfolds with sustained Interest and needs no expiann- an atOry ;foStnOte; .s Wsat Ietter SSate Written by Secretary Thoinas. of the Cubs. iat mT Wurphys request(, giving Pulliam "caii" for expressing bis wiilingnesT M sn,n,sS sS permit MT n MsTpsy ss s tO Dlaysrs SSsR n PFesident p,,ii,am:s letter to Hermann relating to the Thomas letter follows:
 'I am sending you, incIosed Acrstsry cSrneS nAnAanGH NSp T ppS inc chicago National League ball ciuN' founded 1876. Room 1905. .Corh ExchanRe Bank Building, Chicago. Aa'' and also with Frank Chance. ,.. aeifl [ am sending it to you as my friend and adviser because your advice ia nretty good, Dut in this instance I want to say to you l Wouiu r"e he ,vsre sitvs' If MT. Murphy wants any battle E IlIv1i wsSI carry the war to Chicago and I know something personally conceF1nlin 1nirs the management or the Dunrning Dus.i inc Sa,ons Sa o nIaved between the Chicago anu Kew Yok clubs in the last series IT 1n the city of Chicago that will not lo0~ vel sI, N Mr pM Murphy wants trouble I will give. him all the trouble he wants. SmV tn this cornection will make pubic stntement at our meeting m Cnscsso sn the presence of MT. murPns sssoistion of Newspaper Writers @So''~''D
 ~nher'e~ xv.mtea To Do . Favor.
 When President Pulltam answere1 tHe .e letter from Tn9mSs S mnxnrsssed himself as favoring allowing Murphy 70 glVe tns Cubs SiO, 900, as he was ieo tn Ush1S . ete Mr: Murphy was snsGIEssion sGlnIE io aRpGi to give that SuTt ro show how President Pulliam was ,,,,t o,It nv the Thomas letter Q para graph from the r %SspS1 is if and nat at his office: that he has tefepnone96 vou to write to me, because ssneray Mr Murphy writes to me over ms own signature when sov ne tnat aaI is TI what I do to Wr Wi."M Murphy. if did not think MT: Mi,-nhv ws. i'll and at his home I woaid consider his letter an absolute aTsonei Trsoonneiud,ng, Mir. Pulliam has this tO say yywvh,le you are about 1t you might tsndeF MT. Murphy copy sr oF rrsn g snsisen isssss SateS %Eiedef December 2s, and sent to Frank ThSnce aft Ocean Park, Cal. This wHH StrJtten after my first visit to Los An geies. Afterward I went agaIn tS t.H. nu" 1n1sies. at my own expense both times. aslease. say to Mir. Murphy that T .btnlr insetad of sending me a sarcas' tIc Telegram to California anu also care of August Hermann at Gnci tn 1at it hS shosy,d have telegraphed me expressing hIs thank. for what tried to do. ana saving he regretted that my mission to MT. Chance had not been succeSs' 'ui' Calla Chance sFrat Head"
 The letter written by .Puliiam 70 Chance and referred to In ruiliaHHrS .HS reader a mild suggestion of the inter. view between Manager Chance and the hoss of the Cubs when Chance asked f0T a raise In pay at tue CAOSc OA Sh~ season, That letter follows'
 'After my talk with you wrote Murphy and I want you to know exact. Iv what I wrote him. told him that vou told me that you signed the con tract voluntarily and named your own terms: that afterward, after thinking the matter over. you came to the con clusion that you had been too nasty and went to see him with a view to having the contract changed If agree abie to him: that, you were willing to sbide bv his decision; if he took the nosItion that a contract was contract, and that it WAS no fault of his that you named your terms too low, but that he insulted you by calling you Tat head" and telling you thaH you were not the whole tbiDg In the Chicago club that your success was due to the fact that you had a perfect team back of you and that he could pick any one of you 10 successfully lead his team.
 "Furthermore, he threatened to trade vou to Cincinnati, and named the men he would trade for you--namely: Hoblitzel and Lobert; that thereupon vou left his oGflce and came to Califor- mia, and if your relations were resumed the overtures must come through Mur-
 q told him I believed you were in receptive frame of mind, and urged him to come to Los Angeles and see you. That is all, but I sincerely trust you will be back with us because ! want you and believe the National League Mo-1 An la@A 4rnsg m lat ma