Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-25
RESTRAINING ORDER
MAY STOP LEAGUE
Horace FogeI Expected to Go
to Court to Prevent His
Trial Tomorrow.
MAJORITY OF CLUB
OWNERS AGAINST HIM
Sale of Philadelphia Club Pivot
on Which Present Crisis
Seems to Turn.

NEW YORK, November 2j.-National
League base ball men will arrive here
today for the much-talked of Fogel in
vestigation ordered by President Thomas
j. Lynch at the Waldorf-Astoria tomor-
row. August Hermann of the Cincinnati
club will be in town early this morning.
He has openly expressed himself in favor
of Lynch's policy and is ready to vote for
Fogel's withdrawal from the councils of
the league. The same may be said of
James E. Gaffney of the Boston club and
Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh club,
who believe that if the Fogel charges are
allowed to drop the league will be round
ly censured by the base ball public. John
T. Brush of the New York club is too i'll
to attend the meeting. but he will send
Secretary Treasurer McCutcheon to the
session tomorrow with instructions to
support Lynch to a finish. President
Jones of the st. Louis club got here last
night, and while unwilling to speak for
publication, he intimated that he would
lineup with the anti-Fogelites. c. H.
Ebbets of Brooklyn for some reason has
changed front recently an1 is openly sid
ing with Fogel at the same time exploit
ing the candidacy of r. w. Brown of
Louisville for Lynchs berth. Ebbets
stated in October that he was ready to
vote for FOSelS removal from organized
base ball on the ground that his alleged
utterances had greatly injured the game.
Murphy to Confer.
The attitude of Charles W. Murphy of
the Cubs is creating much speculation.
Murphy, hooked up with Charles P. Taft.
will hold a long confab with FOgel in
Philadelphia today. Fogel has been quot
ed as saying that it was at the dictatiOn
of another magnate that he allowed his
signature to be attached to the article in
a Chicago newspaper charging that Lynch
and the umpires had favored the Giants
in the pennant race this year and that
the games, thus manipulated, were not on
the square. Murphy in Chicago Saturday
declared that the league couldn't expel
the Philadelphia club or its president,
Fogel without seven votes and that Chi
cago's vote would not be cast in favor Of
such a move.
1t was reported here last night that
when the league club owners convene to-
morrow Lynch will be served with re-
straining order secured by Fogel's attor-
neys in the federal courts. Fogers friends
and legal advisers it was said We're rea-
sonably sure that he could obtain such an
order and that no court would pronounce
the leagues well defined plan of action
the meeting with counsel but whether he
shows up or not remains to be seen.
May Tie Up League.
1t is of vital Importance to tie up the
league if possible until December II, as
Fogel has an option on the stock, fran
chise and players of the Philadelphia
club, which he recently purchased from
the Taft interests. On that date Fogel
expects to be in a position to announce
that he has secured enough money to re-
lieve Mr.. Taft of his holdings.
Fogel, it will be remembered, declared
year ago that Mr. Taft had no financial
interest. directly or indirectly, in the Phil
adelphia club. Perhaps Fogel will deny
that the clubs stock, notes and other OBJ
legations are locked up in the safe of Mr.
Tafts banker in Philadelphia?
If Fogel can induce the league men to
postpone action tomorrow he will sur
prise persons who are in close touch with
the ideas of various club owners. But
Fogel is going to try persuasion before he
resorts to legal methods.