The Washington herald., 1912-11-26
Fogel in Gotham,
lager for Battle
Boss of PhillieS Says Charges
Will Not Be Proven
Against Him.
TINKER DEAL Is ON FIRE
Special to The Washington Herald.


president of the Philadelphia National
League baseball club, will be impeached
by his colleagues at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel tomorrow afternoon at special
meeting of the old major Organization
1Or alleged charges of dishonesty against
President Tom Lynch and the champion
New York Giants. The National League
executive is pressing the Impeachment
against Fogel at this specific time. set
by the league for the case at hasty
gathering just after the close OF the
worlds series
The charges against FOgel are very
grave. He. is reported to have declared
repeatedly that the National League race
was fixed for McGraw's team to win
the pennant- He is charged with having
said that Tom Lynch instructed his UNI
p;res to favor New York at the expense
of other clubs. 1t is further charged
that the Quaker City magnate intimated
that John T. Brush controlled the league
chairman, and that the local promoter
influenced the umpires to wrongdoing by
holding out as bait positions of umptr-
Ing in the worlds series.
Lynch declares that he has aftidavits
from a number of baseball writer's to
prove that Fogel gave utterance to re-
marks with which he is charged, and
that he has the original copy of an arti-
Gle which appeared in a Chicago news
paper under Fogels signature, and
which bears out practically every ground
on which Lynch instituted proceedings.
Fogel arrived from Philadelphia to-day
He was accompanied by A. L. S. Shields,
a prominent attorney of Philadelphia,
and declared himself eager for the clash.
Fogel fairly startled the early arrivals
by announcing that he would welcome
''open house in the investigation, by
which he inferred that he would rest his
defense on a complete alibi.
Eager for Clash.
Il have been in baseball thirty years
as writer and promoter" said the boss
OF the PhiIlies. During that time |
never uttered one breath of scandal
against the game or any one connected
with it, | can prove that much to the
satisfaction Of everybody. I have no OBJ
lection TO the newspaper men attending
the meeting In fact. / would welcome
them. I am told that certain baseball
writers from New York have made atfl-
davits that they overheard me scandal
izing the national pastime. II they tes-
titled thus they testified falsely and I
will prove it by the Philadelphia writer's
who Were present at the time. The
Philadelphia boys will be on hand to tes-
tify for me-"
Fogel stated further that he never con-
trbuted any article to any newspaper
since he became president of the Phila-
delphia club. He claims any publication
from Chicago was unauthorized by him
and that even yet he does not know
what the article contained.
I am innocent and have no fear of
the result he said. Il will show Presi
dent Lynch what comes of talking too
much. Then I'll make it warm for some
of these fellows who made the mud balls
for Lynch to sling
All the National League representatives
were on hand tonight except Barney
Dreyfuss, and William Locke was here
for him. Dreyfuss will arrive to-mor-
row morning. The meeting is called for
2 o'clock in the afternoon. The majority
of the magnates favor an open meeting.
Further than that none would commit
himself. The general idea seems to favor
peace and quietness till the evidence Of
both sides is in.
Playing PoIOtics.
The magnates. of course, are playing
at politics. as usual on such occasions,
and it is no certainty that Tom Lynch
will be a strong candidate for re-elec-
ton even if he makes good in his charges
against Fogel. The Murphy -Fogel
combine is pulling together once more
and campaigning for a successor to
Lynch It is said the three favor Robert
Brown. of Louisville. and that possibly
a couple more may swing into line with
them before the annual meeting of the
National League in December.
The usual retinue of camp followers,
large and small, were on hand for the
pow-wow with much talk of trade and
no action. Johnny Evers, the new man
ager Of the Cubs, accompanied Charles
w. Murphy here. Evers and Murphy got
into touch with August Hermann rela-
tive TO some trade for Joe Tinker. Tinker
will be here tomorrow, when his case
will be finally disposed of one way of the
other. The matter is up to Hermann.
Cincinnati may have the Cub shortstop
for Mike Mitchell, Eddie Grant. Phelan.
and KniseIy. Hermann does not like
this proposition very we'll but will talk
it over with Tinker.
New York is interested in the DEAL be-
cause II it goes through there is a possi-
bility of Frank Chance coming here as
manager Of the Highlanders. Hermann
is saving the peerless leader as an
ace in the hole. If he secures Tinker
he will have no use for the former Cub
pilot. All the clubs but Cincinnati have
provided themselves with managers.
Chance is wanted as a player by no
one.