The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-19
Dick Kinsella Goes to Browns
Wells After Tiptop Out
fielder and Works on a
Plantation.
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New York, May 1s.-The inside" story
of how Benny Kauff was induced to Jump
To the Giants reads something like q tale
OF fiction.
Kauff was wanted by the Giants last
fall. McGraw made him some KIDD of
an offer. but Kauff's contract with the
indianapolis Feds was of an iron-ciad
nature. So McGraw was or of Kauff
However, when Kaun was sold to the
Brooklyn Feds by the Indianapolis Feds
around the latter part of March this
year McGraw saw a chance to act.
He figured that Kauff's old contract
wouldn't hold in view of the fact that he
had been sold to another club, and he
decided to try to land Kauff before he
signed a new iron-clad contract.
kaur went to Browns Wells, Missis-
sippi summer resort. There is nothing in
the Browns Wells neighborhood but q
few log cabins, mostly inhabited by ne
Eroes.
Dick kinsella, scout for the Giants,
according to the story, hustled to Browns
Wells and got job on a plantation
near the Browns Wells hotel, where
[auff stopping. Kinsella didn't dare
to put up at the same hotel because he
WAS known by Manager Lee Magee
business MANAGER Dick Carroll and 9TH
"Ts Of the Brookfeds. There wasn't
much OF Il chance for him to stop in
HazcIhurst a nearby town. as there are
only Two hotels there and Carroll knew
everybody who fingered there. Further
more. hazc.hurst was ten miles from the
scene of operations.
Received TeIcErams.
kinsella is said to have reported all
the doinGs of Kauff to McGraw and
McGraw and Jack Hendricks, man.
ager of the Indianapolis club in the
American Association, kept wiring
Kauff under assumed names. Nc
Graw's kilograms to kauff, tbs said.
were signed Father" while Hendricks
were signed Uncle kauff, we are
told. got frequent kilograms while at
Browns Wells. Most of them read
along these lines:
Mother wishes TO see her boy. Come
at once. Father.
Everything forgiven. Come. Uncle"
Those kilograms about Mother
wanting 10 her boy were to tip
off Kauff that McGraw wanted to
see him at once. The everything
forgiven telegram was to tip Kauff
that if he jumped the National Com
mission probably would let him play
with organized baseball
Hendricks wanted kauff to go back
to the Giants. He owned Kauff be-
fore the Kid jumped to the Feds and
was promised a nice bunch of money
IL hdulI went 10 tHe
KinseIla. in the meantime. was
bIuffing at farm work and devoting
most of his time arranging secret con-
ferences with Kauff and king him
10 make the jump. kinsella's plead
inCs and those code kilograms, ii is
said. flabberEasted Kauff. He didn't
know what TO do.
kiaseIIa OF Job.
Matters were progressing very nicely in
favor OF the Giants. when kinsella was
forced to quit his job as farmer and sent
along TO head off Pitcher Pol Perritt,
Who was on his way to join the Pitts
hurSh Fedcrals at Augusta. Kinsella was
successful in that mission. lie headed
OF Perritt and landed his signature to
p Giant contract, but in the meantime
Dick Carroll got Kauff in a corner and
asked him why he didn't want to sign
kaun hemmed and hawed and finally
said he wanted more money than the old
Indianapolis contract called for.
How much do you want" asked Car
roll.
Six thousand a year and a three-year
contract" answered Kauff.
Accepted said Carroll. and Kauff
signed up at that figure.
while later Kauff got in touch with
kinsella and McGraw. He told them
that he had signed up at $500 and il is
said they told him he was foolish to
do H.
You're worth more than that" Kaufr
was told.
We'll. how much would you fellows
pay me-" asked Kauf.
We'll give You 5000 a year for three
years and a s. 900 bonus" is said to have
been the offer made to Kauff. That
would have made his salary over 5000
q year.
We'll. can't l sign now" asked Ksun.
What sort of contract have you
eot?" he was asked.
kauff told them and related at length
the /lleged difficulties he had with Robert
r. Ward, president of the Brookfeds
over the contract. The Giant people
thought that owing to Kauffs trouble
Or alleged trouble-over the Brookfed
contract that he was not legally under
contract to that club, and a deal was
framed whereby kauff signed a Giant
contract and made his famous-but flu
tile-jump.