Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-23
MURPHY IS NO BUSINESS
Man, DECLARES Hermann
RED BOSS ATTACK SHOWS HOW
MAoNArEs DON'T LOVE ONE
ANoTHER-eAsEB
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and Murphy and Dreyfuss and MUIR
ply. The things they say about each
other would have meant a duel to the
death in olden days. Now instead of
,, a bullet the one maligned comes back
with another thrust.
Some days ago Hermann. president
Of the Cincinnati club and chairman of
the National commission. was in Chi
cago on commission business. It seems
he made a couple or three engage
ments to meet Murphy, but the Cub
boss failed to keep them, so when
Hermann returned to Cincinnati he
delivered this loving comment on
Murphy:
Il had three appointments with
President Murphy while in Chicago
and not a single one of them was kept.
He asked me to meet him, but when
I went he was gone. Then he tried to
get me again and when l went there
he was gone. The third time did
this made up my mind that Mr.. Muir
ply was either an inveterate liar or
didn't care to do business with the
Reds. In either case. We are through
with him.
Il have ordered Manager Griffith to
have submitted in writing and signed
any statement Murphy cares to mako
In the future about q sale. purchase
! or trade.
I'VE wish to do business with men
who know business. but when Murphy
comes around we beg leave to differ
with those who consider him bust
ness man. 1t might have been that he
was trying to make sport Of me, and
If so, he certainly accomplished that
/ end. for went to see him the whole
three times and then gave it up"
Murphy just laughed when he read
! what Hermann had said, but he'll
come back. never fear. It's in line
with Murphy's statement that too
much harmony isn't good for baseball.
Just by way of keeping up the thun-
! der scene Murphy has taken an &C.
tive part in the melee now raging in
the National league over the 16S-game
schedule. The boss of the Cubs
dashed to the defense Of Mogul Charles
Ebbets, who is arranging the tentative
schedule, and in the same breath Muir
ply hit Barney Dreyfuss for trying to
slip across a program Of 1874 con.
! tests.
"Dreyfuss has no business butting
into this affair." said Murphy. 1.-The
league magnates voted in favor of the
longer schedule and Dreyfuss was
asked to serve on the committee
named to make the card. He under
stands the attitude Of the other club
owners on that score, and If he goes
through with his alleged threat to
retire from the committee for one
would favor the appointment Of Stan
ley Robson to fill the vacancy"
Catcher John King will return to
the Cubs this season or will be traded
to Philadelphia. That IL the opinion
Of an intimate friend Of Manager
Frank Chance.
The belief that the holdout catcher
will be traded to Philadelphia has
been growing stronger in baseball cir
cles, and it is now believed that upon
his return from California Manager
Chance will stop of in Kansas City to
talk over the terms Of the proposed
deal with the backstop.
There is no doubt that the catcher
is eager to get back into the harness
Of major league baseball. Close friends
say that he did not make as much
money out Of his billiard hall and
semipro playing last season as he
could have earned by playing with tho
Cubs. Furthermore, he did not re-
ceive share Of that $4,000 that was
distributed among the players for win
ming the National league champion
ship in 1905
Failure to close a deal with Cincin-
natl, In which Kings name Is sup
posed to have been mentioned, has
only strengthened the belief that spe-
cial efforts will be made to induce
him to play with the Cubs; or, in the
event of his refusal to consent to that,
to agree to play with the Phillies.
WANTS tn FIGHT Mi som