The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-23
BOSS SCRAPPER

Sporting Editor Foster of the Chatta- nooga Times enumerates the scraps of Manager Otto Jordan of Atlanta as fol- lows:
 Atlanta scribes, forgetting that there were two men in the fight between Otto Jordan and Paul Sentell in the Cracker | clubhouse last summer, have dubbed ', Monsieur Paul the only and original crab and dsorganizer Although the one combat is the only thing they have at hand on which to base this theory, they seem to accept it as an ineon- trovertible fact. '~' l There were two men in that fight; at least there were two until. according 10 one side of it, Manager Jordan ceased to be in it. Versions of the battle which leaked through the door alternately place the blame on Jordan and SenteTl.
 Perhaps both were to blame; but the records show that Manager Otto is a far worse trouble brewer than Sentell could ever hope to be. Sentell has had two public. Once. he fought with John Me- Graw in Philadelphia on the other oc- casion. he battled with Jordan. In the interim. Monsieur has played with vari- ous and sundry teams without having trouble with anyone. He fights to win and losses hard--nohody really likes a ball player who doesn't.
 The dope, we argue, is all against Man ager Jordan on the battling proposition and leads the disinterested observer to believe that the real disorganizer of the Atlanta team last summer was none oth CT than the manager himself Some other players on the Atlanta team could tell you some things about Ot; but none of them had trouble with Monsieur
 Some five years ago, when he was first made manager of the Atlanta club, Jor- dan jumped on an Atlanta newspaper man and beat him to pulp, as it were, the newspaper man having ltt'e chance against the trained athlete and scrap per The attack cost the manager his job and the club good sized chunk of money.
 This was not all. A year or two later, Otto, then second haseman under Billy Smith, grew angry at Percy Whiting merely because the latter had said that he "ballooned out to short" when Otto thought his offering was worthy of being called q line drive Otto approached Whiting on the field in Atlanta and only the intervention of bystanders kept him from committing another assault, with the probability that the verdict would have again been in favor of the trained and muscled athlete over the welder Of the pen.
 This is not all of Manager Ots record. He came near breaking up Manager Smiths champion team of 1869 one day in the bus coming from the park at Memphis Al Newton. who was then play ing short for the Crackers, had not per formed to suit Captain Otto that day and after a few words in the bus, Jordan presented the chubby shortstop with a beefstead face and woefully black eye.
 The row with Sentell resulted from the same sort of play as that with Newton, being caused by a disposition on the part of Jordan to crab his nfield part Ter at shortstop
 It is not the custom of the editor of these columns to attack ball players. They have their weaknesses like all other human beings. But one cannot refrain from defending man on whom for partisan reasons, others are trying 10 fasten the charge of being a hopeless crab basing the whole ease" on single fight in the Atlanta clubhouse. The dope in the case, we leave it to the jmportisl leader, favors Sentel as much inc more pleasant sort of fellow than his opponent.