The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-18
GIANTS WILL NOT GO
TOCOAST EXPOSITION
cGraw AbandOns Idea. Saying
Ills Men Will Train Again
at Marlin. Texas.
MANAGER BACK IN TOWN'

Manager John J. McCrtw OF the Giants
returned yesterday afternoon to his desk
in the Fifth Avenue Building offices VI
the club to begin work on the reconstruc-
ton of championship entry for 1915.
Since the close OF tn" season New Works
popular manager had been visiting in
Baltimore
McGraw says that as yet his plans for
next season are somewhat vague. lie
has decided to forget all his earlier ideas
of an exhibition ,our to the Pacific coast
in search of exposition pelf. Marun. TcX..
will as usual be the scene of the Giants
earliest conditioning exercises later to be
supplemented by exhibition games with
the best teams of the Lone star state.
Secretary John u. Foster is in command "
the exhibition bookings and has almost
completed his schedule The team will
return from Texas by way Of New
Orleans playing a week in that city. and
will follow the accustomed route homo
through the Southern States and Atlantic
seaboard.
McGraw charac,erlzes as the most idle
gossip the many rumnrs that have as
sociatcd veteran Giants with proposed
trades since the close of the season.
81 have made no propositions to rival
managers or club presidents said h..
II do not deny that there are players with
other clubs that would look good to mo
III .NtW I OIh uniforms. | lttl COn1lutnl
thai shall be able with a few changes
10 benefit my team greatly. Perhaps 1T
The annual meeting Of the National League
i may try to effect some trades. But in
the meantime | am not advertising The
fact
THE story that am prepared to buy
Benny kaufI for $4,000 is a Joke. He has
nothing better than Federal League
record to recommend him and | do not
enthuse over that sort of work. Kaun
may be all right, but he will have to
show me more than he has Vet shown
before | would give anything like such
sum, even If IT were possible for me to
decker for his services. which it is not.
That letter of I'D konetchy's gave
me another good laugh" continued Nc
Grdw. lie SAYS | will verify the fact
that I offered $4,000 and two players
for bin. Ed must be trying TO kid some
body. haven't offered anything for
him vet first hasenan who couldn't
make good with such bad team the
Pirates has little chance Of commanding
even waiver consideration.
II haven't bought Hene Iimuerman-
At least not in the last week or two
and probably | never shall. You see"
continued Mctiraw. 81 am confronted lust
rather than acquiring players have so
many athletes on my hands I know
scarcely half of them Probably forty
1--WE or more are on our reserve. II
VIII lthe a lbl ol StTlpuS NlOuS1l 10 pare
down to a business working basis. With
my surplus | hope to be able to retrench
in some hitting manner"
While holdaying McGraw has kept IN
close touch with the politics Of the game.
He is of the opinion that tho Federal
League menace has passed.
"Gilmore and his crowd are as good
as buried now" said Mciraw. and for
the life of me ] cannot understand why
the National League Is fuss!ng with
Weeghman. Ban johnson has the right
dope. Organized baseball should let the
whole crew sink together.
Down in Baltimore it : realized that
the Jig is up. Those in close touch with
the inside admit it. The press OF that
city however. j. sulleu and covers its
disappointment with innuendoes of a
dreary outlook for the International
League when the outlaw caus" is ended
Personally ! am Of the opinion that the
Federal League promoters arc simply
whiStling to keep up their courage. They
have been hit too hard financially 70
recover and are stalling along in the hope
OF some sort of lcni-ucy AT the hands Of
organized baseball Prrs nally | cannot
see wherc consideration should he shown
70 any one who tried to wreck Years Of
painful effort IN the uplift Of tn" national
game"
McGraw declares that the Federal pro
motors have been very active eve" since
their annual meeting IN TINS city last
month. According to his statements a
number Of secret meetings have he IA
held in the East as we'll as in the West.
These he iulcrprets as disposition o.,
the part Of tho Independents to get 10
cover as speedily and gracefully as pos
sible
7, NcGrow's opln,on counts the New
YORK. Nationals will not favor any mini
num roster limit for the season of 1915
II is said ina. the American League IA.
yor. "a NV ruIe limiting to twenty the
run,hor Of nINaers On each major leacu,
c,ub If tho National League will cooper,
nta along tho same lines
"Sucb radical legislation 10 go int,
o0oc, in,,nedfot.lv would he a er.at
,ordshi, ~, ,,oet of tno encrratic rlul
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