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EXPELLED
FROM NAT. LEAGUE
Former President of Philadelphia
Club Excluded from Councils
of Baseball Magnates.
RETURNS DEFIANT ANSWER
Was Charged with Making State.
ments Rejecting on the In.
tegrity Of Officials and
Umpires.
RETURNS DEFIANT ANSWER

New York. Nov. ?7.-fIorac. :. t'oCel
former president of the Philadelphia
National League Baseball club, is for
ever excluded from participation in the
councils Of the National League. This
was tn" decision OF the magnates of
the league after six hours considcra-
tion to-day of the charges that togcl
had made statements reflccting on the
integrity Of the National Leagi,e. or the
seven charges. the club owners found
the former Philadelphia club president
guilty on five, and dismissed the other
Two as relating to privileged communi-
cations.
Mr. FoSel had no sooner read the deci-
sion than he countered II with Il defiant
statement. Before the meetings began
ie had expected such decision, he de-
ciared. The jury was packed against
Us" he asserted and he practically told
the magnates who had expelled him from
thcir councils that he would pay no attcn-
ion to their findings.
Il viii sell or represent as I please
The Philadelphia club in the National
League as long as feel inclined to do so.''
nc declared. and no one can disturb me
from doing So
Mr.. Fogel said that hi.. attorney Mr.
Shields, had suggested to him after hours
# discussion that he withdraw and re-
sort 10 the courts on "the grounds that
here was II baseball political conspiracy
.ganst mo To get some one else
81 thought said Fogcl. that | owed
II to my baseball reputation which
onsider spotess IN fight the case to the
tinish. | procured Witnesses on each
harge to rcfutc overwhelmingly the
estimony of the opposition. Mr.. Shields
still cont"nded that it was a waste OF
i'm" and that We might as we'll resort
20 the inevitable | still contended that
,vc should meet the issue because had
-urgested at the start that an open
meeting he held
"Thc entire affair Is national politics.
my constitutional rights are
Safeguardcd in common law and the re-
suit of the verdict of the packed jury
against mo does not affect my property
rights In the future would simply add
that the people of America know my
baseball and will stake my reputation
VI ItN1 anu SpOTtSrIM flSlllD dSdlHSt
hat of any man who voted against me
on five OF the seven charges and who
ruled the other two charges for political
purposes.
President Wiler Of the Philadelphia Ma
tional League club refused to vote on the
liarges against his predecessor on the
ground that the league lacked jurisdic-
ton in the case. M. Wilder said;
II dcclincc to vote. as stated before,
IN the ground of jurisdiction. want to
state however, that while ! declined to
vote on that ground, ! endorse all that
was said on the subject because | think
hat baseball with the large amount OF
'apital Invested ought to be run on the
highest principles of honor and integrity"
All of the clubs in the league were
to-day and all voted 10 sus-
tain the tive charges against Fogel except
the Philadelphia club. No testimony was
taken at the resumption of the hearing
this morning and the league representa-
tives went into executive session imme-
diatclY. At no time, II was said was the
verdict in doubt but the magnates de-
bated at considerable length the form in
which the resolutions should be drawn.
There was discussion also concerning
the powers of the league as to the
privileges ana duties of its own members.
As finally given out in the resolutions the
league magnatcs decided that they had
unlimited powers to say who should not
represent any club forming the league
hut that they did not presume to say to
any club who should represent II in the
national councils.
The charges on which Fogcl WAS
found guilty We're in brief that he had
accused the ST. Louis club of placing its
weakest team against New York, that
he had verbally attacked the integrity
OF the National League race of 1912 and
intimatcd that the race was "crooked
AZ the same time charging that National
League umpires had given all close de-
risions 10 thu Giants, that in an article
In the Chicago Evening Post under date
OF September y Foeel had made aC-
cusations against President Lynch and
in q letter dated October L., which Fogel
sent 10 the other seven National League
club owners, he had declared the league
rae, OF 1872 was not honest and that
President Lynch and his umpires were
incompetent. ana tlit roger nad made
verbal ard written charges ref!ecting
upon specified National League UNI
pirH.
Regarding the Chicago Evening Post
article the basis of one of the charges,
w. :. Forman of that paper witness
at the hearing, declared the article had
heen sent to him by Charles w Murphy,
president of the Chicago National League
club Mr.. Murphy in tcstifyng said he
rad not read the cntire statement before
T. went to Forman. After the meeting
the Chicago masnate refused to discuss
this phase of the case. and the other mag
mates. who had voted to exclude Mr. Foo
gel from further councils Of the league,
said the resolutions spoke for themselves
and also declined to make statements,
The specification which were not sus-
Iained included II letter from Fogel to
President Lynch and u telegram from
l'og"l to president l,,ilmanu OF tho Gin
,innaii clUo In both OF these comm munica-
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