The Washington herald., 1915-02-07
Jack Dunn Driven Out of Baltimore
By the Feds, Tells How 1t Happened;
Savings of Lifetime Swept Away
Former Oriole Leader Claims
Baltimore Isn't Big League
City by a Long Ways.
BITTER AGAINST HANLON
Blames Him for Much of the
Trouble Hopes to Make
Success in Richmond.
make money last year, and does
Ned HanIOn still own stock I'm


make money last year, and does
Ned HanIOn still own stock I'm
themr"
Il have been told by a man who
should know whereof he speaks that
the Baltimore Feds last summer
dropped $4,000. l don't believe that
Hanlon at the present time owns a
penny's worth of stock. He's too
wise to put his money into such a
league"
"TeH me about the sale of your
players last year. Why did you
wreck your p.nnant chances by
dIspOsinE of Shore, Ruth, TwOmb-
ley, Cree, COttreII and Othersr'
when ! saw that / was up against
IL. 1 got in touch with Ban Johnson.
Gov. Tener. and Garry Hermann. eX-
planned conditions and added that un-
less organized baseball came to my
assistance financially. l would be un-
able to meet my payroll which was
scarcely two weeks of.
Can you raise any money by SELL
ing your players? was what Herr
mann, johnson and Tener replied.
"AIl the money l will need to meet
my obligations l answered.
Go ahead and sell them came the
order and ! Obeyed. That's all the
assistance l got from organized base
ball
1T was lucky for me that had
some good ban players to sell or
don't know where l would be to-
day"
Did Not Double Cross Griff.
"In Washington the report has
gained circulation that you double
crossed Clark Grihith when you
sold OutheIder Eddie Murphy to
the Athletics. Is this sOrr
Il never double crossed anybody in
my life. Let me tell you about the
Eddie Murphy deal.
Il had a wire from Connie Mack
during the late summer of the 1913
season just before the drafting season
closed. Mack wanted Murphy and
Walsh and offered me $4,000 in cash
also five players for this pair of out
fielders. The mail a few days later
brought a letter from Mack inclosing
one from Ban Johnson. president OF
the American League. Johnson urged
Mack to get both Murphy and Walsh
as he had been tipped OFF that the
National League would probably slip
in drafts for them. and that he John
SOM, did not want these men to be
snapped up by a rival league.
"I had asked Clark Griffith to make
me an offer for Murphy. I told him
that l would give him a chance, but
| he could not give me the induce
ments held out by Connie Mack. Nat
urany I grabbed Mack's offer. I would
have been a fool 70 have refused.
Here's another thing you might
ask Griffith. When l found that ii
was necessary to sell my players last
summer. l called up Grih over the
phone and offered to turn over Ernie
Shore, my star pitcher, for $4,000
Griff told me plainly that he could not
pay such fancy prices for ball players
although he would like to get Shore.
The Boston Red Sox gave me my
price, but Griff had first chance AT
Shore. He will tell you so, too, If
you ask him"
allow were you able to keep all
these good ball players from fall
ing into the hands of the Fed
eFaI League last winterf"
'In this respect l consider myself
lucky. for the Feds did not get a
single one of my players.
Il was tipped off about Christmas
time that the Federal League would
really start business and that they
were already out scouting for play
ers. So 1 sent my secretary and an
other friend, both armed with blank
contracts to see personally every
player l had on my reserve list My
instructions were, get each mans sig
nature, tell him to report for spring
training and that when he arrives l
will talk with him and fill in the fig-
ures. The scheme worked like a
charm. l did not lose a played, and
only one held me up for a stiff con-
tract"