New Britain herald., 1915-02-25
DEVERY BOOTED OUT
 OF INTERNATIONAL
Barrow Declares That Jersey City
 Franchise Is Forfeited.

New York, Feb. 25.-Some of these days, when baseball peace will rule our fair land and Proxies Johnson Tcner, Gilmore and Barrow will all i inbibe grape juice under the friendly Loughs of Anheuser bush With a peaceable dove tWittering songs of love, somebody may get a big laugh when they mention about the stormy voyage encountered by the war stricken International league while sailing through the fussy old winter Of 1914-15.
 It may sound funny then, but it doesn't sound that way to Ed Barrow now His unfortunate craft just hits one mine right after another And when he isn't hitting mines laid by the common enemy he runs into others planted by his confederates.
 Yesterday the dear old league had an explosion from the inside, and out ot the rent flew Messrs. William Devery and his nephew, Thomas Fo- garty followed by some rather un- complimentary invectives launched by Ed Barrow.
 Devery in the Way, Says Barrow.
 It seems Ed set off this explosion himself just to blow Devery out of the boat When Ed did everything tc steer his craft through the mine field he alleges that the Chief, instead of giving a hand, did all he could to rock the boat.
 The Chief is no longer on Barrow's speaking list and the only way he will speak to him is through Eds lawyer Barrow is also going to sue the former secretary of war of the
 
 but We will come to that later.
 Many things were said by MT. Barrow about MT. Devery, which Bar row expressed q desire to see in print. But we must be calm. The Chief never did us any harm. We will let it go that Barrow is as fond of him now as he is of Jim Gilmore.
 Barrow yesterday declared the Jersey City franchise forfeited, and that he had informed Messrs. Devery and Fogarty that they had been elected from his league.
 "Devery had fifteen days in which to meet his obligations, and as he failed to meet them, we were com- pelled to take such drastic actiOn," said the International league chief "Fogarty. of course, goes out with him. He never had anything to do with the club except to act as figure head for Devery. Devery was the packer"
 Owes League $iO,OC0. "Devery owes the league about $1O,000 in addition to various other debts which the club has incurred in Jersey City, and which it has steadily refused to meet. The league, therefore voted that unless the club meet these obligations within fifteen days, the franchise should be for feited.
 q will immediately sue Devery Tor the money which he owes the league. ! 1 would not mind if Devery were not a rich man, but all along in my fight i he had promised faithfully to stand 1 by, and I put a lot of faith into his l promises But when things started to 1 go bad he was one of the first to do i the baby act. Fine help he gave me. l "He was the one who would stick i through thick and thin, but he didn't l stick very long after the trouble 1 started to cOme.'
 Will Bring Suit. Tn his suit against Devery, Barrow saws he will testify that $500 of the nurchase money received by Devery, Tarrell. ct al, for their Yankee stock 1 is heing held in escrow as a guarantee 1 to Ruppert and Huston that no c,s;ms or obligations will be made