New Britain herald., 1917-06-21
BASEBALL WRITERS Is
 PEAVED AT INGRAM
Giants Leader May Be in Despsr
 PrediCament Over Tener Case t.

ii 4a. At
 New York, Juno 21.-John 1Ge-ss oraw has taken . leap out of tADg frying pan into tho hrs. The mans axer of the Giants. who apparently 's cleared himself with the Nation4a League on Tuesday. Is In about sas tight . little dx n he has boon d1r- x ing his entire career. Mc0raw's a&- as tempt to clear himself by passing tho buck to the correspondents travslltug
 with the Giants is making no great s hit with the members of the Fourth Estate who write baseball in this city.
 In . sweeping rApudiation McclrMnxs branded all alleged interviAws X, which he was supposed to hay0s
 tackled Tensr, the National Le&S
 and it's umplres a "scurrllous 1It13 cles." That may have cleared Jo
 J. with Tener, but perhaps this tf16S
 McGraw has biten off more than kA
 can chew. sFs x
 Newspapers of the city do not p<1s
 pose to pass 90 lightly over tho
 ner which McGraW has chosen f eHa tricate himself from the peI1E
 which statements credited to
 interviews had thrown him. H$4 44 nial leaves the matter hinginS ohsA g point of personal verAcity. and 2t40G are anticipated that will brint out 1l thorough investigation. An informal discussion held by tAak { local chapter of the Baseball Wftt9f9a association yesterday afternoon dA~E veloped the facts that action will A4n delayed until the writers travellinls with the Giants return home. AAA ! soon as they arrive they will be asle(ba to sign anidavits setting fsrth 5uSee exactly the authority given them 1onss l writing interviews sent to their fesA 1 specttve papers. N Theso arc to bs turned over toes ]! the National League, with the de.ss l mana that the league take the matSa; ter up and call for full nearing 0ts the facts in the case. It h even hint x 1 ed that in the event the NationafSss Leageu fails to take action suit fofa damages will bs hled by one or mersl l writers and the matter taken dnto4
 court, where q thorough airing ok thsas l mussr will bs forced. - that the writys CTS of ''scurriious artioleS'' be RjaAs i right before the public. Nx ] Four local newspaper men Af4 l travelling with the Giants. All o these vent in what purpOrted to 6 interviews with Mc0raw. These MI
 ried In tone,s hut all implied that a4Cs2 Graw was highly inceneed and w4ga
 practically unrestrained In hiS chaf%
 acterizations of President Teiief a's E
 Umpire Byron.
 That McGraw's action. 6GctdSaa departure from any thing tho maIl-l 1 aEer of the Giants had pfSv3o4A4ly
 done, took the newspaper rne1 nVsa surprise Is putting the situation snall ly. At the Polo Grounds { | the general topic of conversatt1MsK4t | on the McGraw ease. His bfHmd1 l Of the members of the loc4i shept41 T of the Baseball Writers associA4ion 4a
 falsifers of news caused 1peS1y aess, tion by tho writerA W I The local chapter intends to 1age l McGraw plenty of oppertunity 11 confront thoee he brands - ltASs either before the board of directd4l of tho National Lcague or b4G0re A ! court of law. Tho organasdtt0n d6A1S not intend to stand idly by in or6As l to permit McGraw to ret ont of n predicament. Dhey point to tho faetS that McGraw easily could ha14s, l cleared himself by ackn0WaAdetNas
 to the National LeaSus dtTector1 6S4 l made the statements whom n tA&s heat O. passion and wAs TeAA1 fos
 apologize to President Tenor for l1s action. s