El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-08
BASEBALL LEADERS ARE FIGHTING:
HAVE KNIVES OUT AND INHETTED
League Presidents Attack Each Other and Nursing Old
Grudges; Minor League Magnates Claiming They
Have Not Had Fair Deal From the Majors and
Ball Players Fraternity, Also in For War.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

! civil war viii result The outcome will
be- disastrous for the game and viii
knock out the bulge from the bank
rolls Of the magnates.
II would seem that the baseballers
didn't have their battle lust sufficient
y satiated when they squashed the
Feds into oblivion They want more
II it There being no outlaws" 10
fracas with, they now are rushing
around squabbling among themselves
And meanwhile. the dove OF peace,
poor thing. is all cut and bruised. minus
many Of its tail feathers and suffer
ing the extraction of more WITH each
dying day.
League Proxies F'Iny Zach other
Ban johnson and John Tener are At
swords points Barney breyfuss IS
cunning" for his associate Of many
years-Garry Herrman-and yearns to
kick the present national commission
into the scrap heap. Several ma.nates
have formed intense dislikes for eahc
other and hardly speak 5 they Tilt by
The minor leaguers. claiming the Dig
fellows never have given them = really
square deal. are breathing threats to
cut loose from the ties thar bind them
to organized baseball
And looming in what you might call
the Offing is Dave Fultz, guardian
angel for the ballplayers. Dave. too.
despite his peaceful calling has i'm
bibed some of the battle spirit and his
decks are cleared for action
Relations between Ban and Johnny
have reached a point where the service
Of an ambulance corps would seem
necessary, should they meet soon Ban
is peeved at the way Johnny is con-
Quoting the National league maneuvers
and John has enjoined Ban TO go wash
your own dirty linen The American
league preNy retOrtS with utterances
. Indicating that he believes John is
shine" as a league president. and John
has answered the salute by lntma tlnE
that Ban isn't such-a-much and should
mind his own business.
And then There's Barney Dreyfuss
OF PittsburE. rushing around with sew
eral chips on his shoulders, daring
Garry Hermann TO knock EN- off. and
declaring if Garry won't, he Barney
viii call out the militia. anyway
Barney has concluded that the present
form Of national commission is joke
and that Garry is the funniest part OF
it ali. He wants Garry ousted from
his Craftsmanship job, which nets Herr
mann S12.5OO year, but Garry IS op-
posed to the scheme
Barney, perhaps, is seeking bit OF
revenge Garry "Ouched" Barney out
of George Sisler. by grabbing the col
legian while he was in Pittsburg and
forward passing him to the American
league But whether II is revenge o.
not doesn't alter the fact that Barney
has heaps of backing in the scheme 10
skid Garry out Of his fat job
Minor Leagues Irritated-
After suffering the sings and ar
rows of outrageous fortune, as DIS
pensed by the major leaguers. the small
I fellows have decided TO get 4 new deal
or quit holding hands with the Ameri-
can and National leaguers. For year
or more they have been muttering
threats Of revolt. And the National
commission merely has shifted a them
But they'll do other than sniff II the
radicals get control Of that minor
league meeting in New Orleans next
week All of which is more than likely
The national commission has lOrded
II over the minor leaguers for years.
The small folks have had to be satisf ed
with what terms the commission telt
like making
Now they have decided to have rep
resentation in that body Or a guaran-
( tee OF Justice in future dealings. or
: something is going to bust And the
I conclusion is likely to unsettle the
foundations OF organized baseball
Fultz UnSheates CutiaSs-
Meanwhile, the players. anxious 10
! know where they are going - get OFF
/ or on-detailed one David FultzY who
I presidents for their fraternity. TO hover
close to the battle zone. But Dave
| hates this lowering business. He wants
| to be in the thickest Of the fighting
/ And so he has loaded up his little
| hOwitzer. jammed his cutlass into po-
sitiOn for instant action. and an
nOunced.
! Let 'em touch one hirsute growth
| on a ball players knob and by the
hokus-pokus III mess EN- up