The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-29
LEAGUE BOSSES
CAUSE TROUBLE
Magnates Of Major Organi-
cations Continually Stir
ring Things Up.
tBy Harold ID Johnson

Chicago. Ills. Oct. 29.-Pity the
poor mogul who can't hit 800 in the
hammer-throwing league! For he's
bound to go unnoticed through the
winter of discomfort. 1t was always
thus in the olden days and In the par
ent body of the grand old game com
monty styled the National league.
Though the curtain has been down
little more than Il week the owners
and powers that be in Lynch's organi-
zation have displayed better than mid
season form in their anvil choruses
and have m~onopolized the spotlight,
completely showing from view the
milder captains of industry operating
the American league, which hasn't ex-
tigers went on strike last summer. And
this little episode was over in no time.
Any old weapon is eligible for use in
the f~ree-for-all Raging match now
running. The length and breadth of
the belligerent circuit Is being illum-
mated by the firebrand that has been
famed into a blaze. Among the we'll
known and duly qualified contestants
in the publicity competition are
Messrs. Lynch. Fogel. Murphy. Chance
Tinker, Evers, Bresnahan, Mrs. Brit
ton and O'Day.
Here in Chicago, the hotbed of the
national pastime, we are daily RECALLED
by thrilling accounts Of the Cub i'm
hroglio. 1t started before the lights
went out on the pennant campaign
ed until spring training days burst in
to view. Everywhere in the offices Of
President Murphy there is rioting. un-
rest. Instruction and war. The same
goes at st. Looie. New York and Phil
~.
For more than three weeks we have
been RECALLED with scare-line heads on
the latest developments in the Chance
Murphy feud. AS one fan put It..
"Chance is the guy who annoyed MIR.
Murphy by winning pennants for him
in 1906. 1907. 1908 and 1870"
It's a hair-pulling match in the
Mound City with Bresnahan and Mrs.
Britton at war. The only woman own
er in the major league has fired the
manager. and the latter insists ne
won't stay on the outside. How Mrs.
Britton had the Cardinals wished upon
her by a last will and testament is a
matter of record. She is thoroughly
posted on symphonies. tapestries. bon
bons and Mexican drawn work, but
this baseball thing is a new undertake
ing.
Proceeding from st. Looie we pause
at Cincinnati to learn the sad tidings
anent Hank o'Day, whose greatest Of
Tense was to steer the reds into first
division. Just for that Mr.. Hartman
Is polishing up a boiler which will be
appended to the venerable Henry
When he isn't set to receive the added
appendage. If the dope pans out true
to form Henry's itoga will be wrapped
around one Joe Belasco Tinker. a Cub
of many years standing.
Even little old New York is having
its share of thrills and mud-sltnging
sideshows. John T. Brush and other
men Of great wealth behind the cham
pton giants are calling their brother
owners of the National league a lot Of
things that aren't fit to eat. 1t hap.
pens that the league passed a law COM
polling %contenders for the worlds
championship to dig up ten per cent
OF their series winnings to the COM
mon herd, or other clubs Of the cir
cult. Back in July that bill looked
pretty good. and it went.
Having coppered a large wad Of
wampum. though beaten by the Red
Sox. the New York club decided to
back water on the ten per cent stunt,
inc ever since we have been hearing
loud mutterings Of discomfort. Pro-
ceeding further to Philadelphia, where
Horace Spectacular Fogel is holding
the center Of the floodlight, we find
another party mess: but the folks in
control Of the Quakers are working
overtime to crowd Horace off his ped
estal. and another executive will like.
~ sit In on the job for the mogul who
created u a Juror by accusing the
umpires of the National league Of con-
spring to aid h Giants in their 1912
Dannant scramble