The Washington times., 1913-07-28

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 2s.-It Is as
serted here that besides tracing the
McGraw- Brennan personal encounter
TO newspaper articles printed under
the name of John McGraw. manager
Of the New York Giants. the national
commission has evidence that COM
ments published as having come from
players caused the dissension that
resulted in the dismissal Of Jacob
Garland Stahl from the Boston club,
Of the American League.
Under The headlines, "StahIs Dis
charge Can Be Laid to Player Writ
ers." and "Roasts and Criticisms in
Worlds Series Started Muss," the
Cleveland Leader says:
when James McAleer took Jake
Stahl into his office and kicked him
out as manager of the Boston worlds
champions there came to a climax
trouble that has camped on the trail
of the team since the worlds series
of last year.
"Stahrs custer and the general spirit
of emeute and unrest within the Red
Sox can be attributed TO the writing
which stars of the American League
champions did during the bruising
battles for the worlds championship.
when 1t was a foregone conclusion
that the Red Sox would bear the
brunt of the American Leagues tussle
for stellar honors the newspapers of
the Hub Jared forth and signed all
the star players to contracts to write
for the papers.
Extra Change"
The ball players saw a chance for
a little extra change, and forthwith
heartily Handicapped and welcomed
the income that they would receive.
'AlI perfectly proper and within the
realm of reason and sense. But not
a ball player in the lot wrote a single
line that was written in the dull,
cold, deadly type under his name.
This was intrusted to a bunch of
and other departments OF the papers.
Not ball player knew what he had
written until he read the papers.
Now, these young men who Were
toying with the Joint output OF the
late Messrs. Webster and Worcester
the truth. They skimped the facts as
much as possible and proceeded to
write into the signed articles their
own ideas of the game. The result
brought general woe in the camp OF
the Red Sox while II filled the hos
tiles with chunks OF unutterable glee.
Reading the signed articles OF Bill
Carrigan one would CLEAN that In a
certain game Bill figured Heinie
Wagner to be an eNtant species or
and bonehead. After d.
gesting this structure on the Boston
American captain one could turn in
glee to Heinie's statement under his
own and honest German name. Here
1t would be discovered that Heinie
believed Bill Carrigan as a coacher
had more ivory in his head than an
upright grand piano.
Now this might have been all right
In this particular case. For Bill and
Heinie are room mates and as close
as two peas In a pod. They would
pay. no attention to the newspaper
which they were supposed
TO have written.
But that wasn't the way all
through. There were so many roasts
IN the papers under the names of
the men who were playing on the
same team that II ended in a fight af-
ter one Of the games in New York,
Buck O'Brien took a punch at Joe
Wood, Bill Carrigan laid out Buck
and there was a general melee, which
was traceable to these articles which
we're written by lot of irresponsibles
who got a chance to see the worlds
that has wrecked a ball team.
Harmonious Once"
Last year the Red Sox, fighting for
gold and glory. were a harmonious
crowd. They held together; any jeal-
ousies were trod under the heel of a
common cause In fact, there were no
ealousies in the Red Sox; their playing.
heir general disposition and their gen.
eral work all tended to prove that il
was all for one and one for ALL
But the special writer scourge that !
,ame over them like boil weevei plagrIe
turned the trick. Fellows who wouldn't