Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-13
TAYLOR KEEPS FANS GUESSING. No Deal Too Surprising for Red Sox Manager to Spring Upon Baseball Public.

There have been cratic ball players loads of them. There are the Bugs Raymonds. the Rube Waddells in the present ranks of the professionals, and there were others of their ilk in the old days of the game There have been also magnates who have been known as having cratic pers onalities, if not considered as being in the fresh class.
 The last baseball magnate to spring sensations one after the other in pres ent and more recent days of the sport is John I. Taylor, owner of the Boston American club and his team known as the Red Sox
 When Magnate Taylor released what was considered one of his most Valua = ble player assets, Cy Young. in a trade whereby his club secured Jesse Bur kett, fandom gasped in wonder. Then again the sudden shift of his mana gers in various years caused no end of talk, hut his most recent action in gettln" rid of Harry Lord, his team captain and considered by many good judges tJ be the best third baseman in the coun- try. was a deal that startled the base ball world possibly more than any other of the strange and unaccOuntable transa ctions he has made in his en- tire career as a magnate and club owner
 No deal seems too surprising for Mir. Taylor to spring on an unsuspecting baseball public. His team may be go- ing along at top speed. and with pen nant prospects that any other owner would think the best and most profit able thing to be possessed of and then in a jiffy the whole winning fabric will be disrupted appeared to be the case with the Red Sox when Lord was given the bounce. That the team. a winning aggregation. was suddenly four straight defeats by the chica go White Sox immediately after the sur prising deal was r5umrnated.
 There was not a manager in the American league or the National who would not have jumped at the chance to secure the discarded third baseman. ard Frank Farrell owner Of the New York Americans. has been reported as saying he would give s1o0.000 in cash for Lord. There are other owners who would go even further than Farrell.
 Third basemen of the calAbre of liar ry Lord do not grow on bushes. They are very hard to get, and when club is fortunate enough to secure one it holds on to him like grim death.
 John I. Taylor is man of whims and moods. He wants to be the boss and woe betide the player on his club that develops a spirit of independence Manager Fred Lake dared to have t mind of his own. and it was the blue envelope for him. And so it has been with others in Taylor's employ.
 I hope there was method in John I. Taylor's apparent madness in his most recent 1aal but one class to ba seball and it's many inside workings hates to see a winning aggregation like the Red Sox thrown to the dogs by a whin.
 I, therefore. with many others. hope that Mr. TaNlor had deep, good and sufficient reasons for Harry Lords dis Dissal.
 Any cluh owner has perfect right. TIC doubt to control his club and team as he sees fit. but the great baseball public that supplies the needful and has made baseball the glorious sport and nastime that it is deserves some consideration
 That should be baseball law, wAwrit- ten perhaps but solid