Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-29

l150O season c forget exactly whichj end thereby took great weight off my mind ] wrote Mr. Mack telling him that as ! was going to college. could play only part of the season, but that 1T he would guar. nntee Co give me S70Q for Che summer ,acaiion. during which ] was free. | would come He asscnted Co this. and as ! thought fortune was certainly doing the proper thing by me- l might as well make hay while the sun shono. l told him l thought l ough; to have $50 in advance I owed some money for books and few other items and wanted Co get square with the world This was a big demand knew. put ] didn't know but that he might fall for it and I thought in any c0ge l would make a try Later re. proacttd myself for not asking for more, Gs he advanced the money with out comment
 "It was some tlree weeke after this that received a red-hot communica- lion from Andrew Freedman. It ap. reared l had committed some crime and must see him at once Co straight. en out the kinks In nay reputation. In. asmuch as he offered to pay my ex- peuses to New York aud back. ! thought I had better see what he had on his mind l walked into his office unconscious of the weight of guilt | was carrying but he speedily unde- ceived me. As soon as he saw me he shut the office door, pulled up his cbair. shook his finger at me and sad: see here. young maa, what is this I hear about you and the Ameri- can League? Don't you know that you belong to my club, and that you will either play in New York or you won't play at allT ] was completely taken aback, md said Why Mir. Freedman, am already signed up with Connie Mack. That doesn't make any diff. ference said Freedman. "the Amer. lcan League won't last three months. and then where will you be? Every player who goes with that league will be blacklisted He won't be able to play anywhere else as long as he lives. and furthermore, you are the property of this club and if you re- fuse Co live up to your agreement ] will bring suit against you myself
 "rhis was a remarkable revelation to me. Prior to this I had had no ink ling of my value to MT. Freedman or the New York club Possibly had it not been for the fact that his entire pitchiuS staff had deserted Co the American League and he was left flat without a twirler. Mr. Freedman him self would have had no such opinion of my value however as it was and taking full advantage of my childish ignorance, he SO wrought on my imag inauon at | didn't know where was at. l naturally didn't want to for go my future career as a ball player. it such Q career was a prospect, and didn't want Co go with a league that wculdJ last three months But at the
 ame t.me- Ciiu't want to 30 back on my word to Connie Mack so ex- plamed to Mr. Freedman Chat l had already received $50 in advance money and asked him if he would return this money to Mack He said he would and we left the matter in that way Immediately wrote to Connie Mack. explained the situation, told him was threatened with a suit by Mir Freedman, and asked him if he would stand behind me in this suit To this communication ! received DO reply. repeat that Mack knew nothing of my ability as player except through hearsay, and no doubt thought if there was going to be 80 much trouble in getting possession of me the game wasn't worth the candle
 "In any case. ! eventually returned Go the fold of the National League and the beginning of the season found me pitching for Andrew Freedman. In cidentally, he consistently forgot to return the $50 to Connie. SO when had received enough salary to enable me to do so, l refunded the money myselir