Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-05
CRITICS INSIST UPON
M'GRAW INVESTIGATION
President Tener and Other Of
ficials Owe 1t to Fans and
Scribes

Despite the announcement of the National
Commission that they will not investigate
the game between the Giants and Dodgers
I'm Brooklyn last Tuesday which virtually
clinched the pennant for the Brooklyn club,
the newspapers and the baseball public will
not be content to let the matter drop. Nc
Graw and the New York club have started
something that must be seen through to
the finish, and until this is thrashed out TO
the end baseball will carry black eye
that will not wear away for some time.
This is the first time that manager of
a big league team ever made a statement
which questioned the honesty of the game.
and whether McGraw made this remark in
all sincerity or out of malice remains to
be explained. Until this mystery is solved
and the heads of the National League do
their duty, baseball is certain to fall into
disfavor.
The Brooklyn Standard Union in an
editorial bearing the headline, president
Tener should act promptly in the McGraw
case" says
'McGraw should be suspended by the
president of the league, and unless he is
able to prove his assertion never again
should be allowed to don a National
League uniform or officiate in any relation
to professional baseball
Already his friends-he, himself re-
fuses TO speak-are trimming.
1t is intimated he did not say in so many
words his men threw" the game, but that
they refused to obey his orders and played
listlessly.
"The first statement possibly may be true
1.-THE second has not a shadow of
foundation in fact.
Joe villa, In Wednesdays New York Eve
ming Sun says:
There isn't a doubt that friendship for
Unble Wilbert Robinson. once the Giants
NI. Vel ala
Indifferent. Robbie is one Of the most pop
ular baseball men in the profession. Among
the members OF his team are Merlkle, Mar
guard and Meyers. former Giants. Lew
McCarty, McGraw's star catcher. was a
Brooklyn player up to a month ago, when
Robbie traded him for Merkle. AS the Giants
had nothing to gain after they were beaten
by the Braves on Saturday, IL Is probable
that they went into the series with the
Brooklyns feeling that It would be sheer
cruelty to beat Robbie and his players out
of the worlds series money.
But the scandalous work of some of the
Giants yesterday became so raw that II
will not be surprising II the worlds series
in 1917 is played under new rules which
will make the players rakeon much smaller
than II is now. The annual scramble for
worlds series gold has caused much I'll
feeling, rowdy conduct. and last, but not
least fragrant Indifference"
Tho New York Evening mail. in yester-
days issue. says:
Baseball is bigger than the Dodgers. II
is rightly termed the national game. II is
founded on honesty, and can only remain
the national pastime 30 long as Its integrity
is unlmpeached.
president Tener owes II TO himself. to his
league to the Dodgers. to John ]. McGraw,
TO baseball itself to the millions OF fms
throughout the country. TO investigate yes
terday's AFFAIR. McGraw's action In leaving
the field after the fifth inning in itself war
rants this.
"John j. McGraw deserves the thanks Of
every one interested In baseball. Even II II
should disrupt the whole structure OF the
game, Il was the only thing for him to do"