The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-05
McCRAW CRITICIZED
FOR QUITTING FIELD
Brooklyn Players and Management Boiling Over With Indig
nation While Excitement Still Reigns In the Baseball
Word-John McGraw Remain Quiet.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

New York, Oct. with the
Brooklyn players, management, and
fans shrilling Indignantly, Ban b.
johnson babb1ing bellicosely, John X.
Tener Grating orotundly, and Harry
N. Hampstead arguing in low, re-
strained tones between the bushes,
there was much conversation and ex-
element in the baseball world today
The only man who kept quiet was
the man who started all the talk
John J. MoGraw, the stormy petrol
of the big leagues. Everybody con-
nected with the game had something
to say today about McGraws remarks
concerning the playing Of his Giants
against the Brooklyn club Tuesday,
except McGraw. He did not make his
appearance at Ebbets' Field this
afternoon when his club defeated the
Dodgers or rather. the Dodger re-
cruits and second string men, in the
third game Of the series. The score
was to 3, and 1t was dull. listless
affair, at least as listless a the game
Tuesday. which caused McGraw to
walk out on his club with declara-
ton:
I'm through with them for this
season." said McGraw in that declara-
ton. and apparently, he is. Charley
charge of the Giants today. The race
being all over. Wilhert Robinson rest
ed up most of his regulars for The
opening of the worlds series in Bos-
ton Saturday.
1t was reported that McGraw had
left town. but this could not be con-
Armed He was seen last night after
no had made his statement, and after
Il had received circulation enough to
cause a terrific stir. but he said he had
nothing 10 add to the remarks he
made at Ehbets' Field after the
game.
The members of the National Conn
mission, which is ethe governing body
of baseball, are all in New York 10
make arrangements for the worlds
series. and are fully aware OF the
McGraw incident. 1t Is not likely they
will take any action In the matter
however.
Ban b. Johnson. president of -
American League. and one or tn~
commission, says that the affair Is up
to the National League. and not to
the National Commission. anyway.
The cagey Ban rarely overlooks an
opportunity to swat the rival league,
and he swung this one right from the
conversational floor today:
III they tthe National League) are
not big enough TO handle 1t. they
should go out of business
That wasn't all Ban said-not by
any means lie put much harshness
in his accents In speaking of John j.
Mc6iraw. only recently John j. Nc
Graw and Ban Johnson smoothed out
the corrugatious OF a difference that
began back in the time when McGraw
Jumped Baltimore and the American
League, and they were again friends.
Now-wen:-
"TersouaIly." speaking OF McGraw's
statement. says Ban. Il think 1t was
an outrage and had it occurred In
the American League there would
have been something TO pay"
Garry Hermann, president Of the
Cincinnati club OF the National
League and chairman of the National
Commission, was at the Waldorf to-
day. but he declined to do much talk
ing about the McGraw matter.
This La the first time I had ever
heard OF the incident" he said. 'At
first l thought 1t was Joke
do you still consider 1t joke? -
he was asked.
mo. 1 believe It was fool act,
he said.
Hermann declined to say whether
the National Commission would act
at the meeting In Boston on Friday.
but John Il Tener. president OF the
National League. and the third mem
Der OF the commission. does not think
the matter will be presented to the
high court of the game.
II have not talked with Manager
McGraw. Secretary Foster or with any
members of the New York club about
the stories In the morning papers
which intimate that the Giants de-
liberately laid down. said the former
Congressman and Governor of Penn
sylvania. '.McGraw's action means
simply that the wild Irish In him rose
to the top when he thought his ath-
letes were not doing their best"
Tener was present at the game In
Brooklyn yesterday. He Is an old
time ball player and Is supposed "a
be more or less OF judge OF ball
playing.
Personally. + believe every man
was fighting tooth and nail to win, -
he said. which verdict scarcely tallies
with the judgment of many OF the
baseball experts who pronounced II
"farcical exhibition"