Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-28
FOGEL IS T0SSEDOUT
He Is Forever Excluded From
Councils of National League.
GUILTY ON FIVE COUNTS
Former President of Phillies Still
Defiant, Saying the Jury Was
Packed Against Him.
GUILTY ON FIVE COUNTS

NEW YORK, November 2S.-Horace S.
FOgel. former president of the Philadel-
phia National League Base Ball Club, is
forever excluded from participation in the
councils of the National League.
That was the decision of the magnates
Of the league after six hours consulta-
ton on the charges that Fogel had made
statements rejecting on the integrity of
the National League.
OF the seven charges. the club owners
found the former Philadelphia club presi-
dent guilty on five and dismissed the
other two as relating to privileged COM
municatiOnS.
Mr.. Fogel had no sooner read the deci-
sion than he countered it with a defiant
statement. Before the meetings began
he had expected such decision. he de-
clared. THE jury was packed against
u.s. he asserted, and he practically told
the magnates who had expelled him from
their councils that he would pay no at
tention to their findings.
II will sell represent as I please the
Philadelphia club in the National League
as long as 1 feel inclined to do So" he
declared. land no one can disturb me
from doing so.''
Mr.. Fogel said that his attorney, Mr..
Shields, had suggested to him after hours
Of discussion that he withdraw and resort
to the courts on the ground that there
was a base ball political conspiracy
against me to get some one else"
Il said,' Fogel explained. that owed
it to my base ball reputation, which
consider spotiess, to fight the case to the
finish. 1 procured witnesses on each
charge to refute overwhelmingly the tes-
timony of the opposition.
Calls It Politics.
''The entire affair is National League
politics. Fortunately my constitutional
rights are safeguarded in the common
law and the result Of the verdict of the
packed jury against me does not affect
my property rights in the future. I would
simply add that the people Of America
know my reputation as a builder-up and
fosterer of base ball, and I will stake my
reputation for fairness and sportsman
ship against that of any man who voted
against me on five of the seven charges
and who ruled out the other two charges
for political purposes
President Wiler of the Philadelphia Ma
tiOnal League club refused to vote on the
charges against mis- predecessor on the
ground that the league lacked jurisdiction
in the case. Mr.. Wiler said:
Il declined to vote. stated before,
on the ground of Jurisdiction. / want to
state. however, that while 1 declined to
vote on that ground 1 indorse all that was
said on the subject, because I think that
base ball, with the large amounts of cap
ital invested, ought TO be run on the high
est principles of honor and integrity
All the clubs in the league were repre-
scented and all voted to sustain the five
charges against FogeJ except the Phila-
delphia club. No testimony was taken
at the resumption Of the hearing yester-
day morning and the league representa-
tiveS went into executive session imme-
diately. At no time. it was said. was the
verdict in doubt, but the magnates debat-
ed at considerable length the form in
which the resolutions should be drawn.
The charges on which Fogel were found
guilty were, in brief, that he had accused
the ST. Louis club of placing it's weakest
team against New York; that he had YER
bally attacked the integrity of the Ma
tional League race of 1912 and intimated
that the race was crooked" at the same
time charging that National League UNI
pires had given all close decisions to the
Giants; that in an article in the Chicago
Evening Post, under date of September
2S, Fogel had made accusations against
President Lynch and charged his umpires