New Britain herald., 1917-06-28

SPORT WRITERS ASK
 FOR A HEARING
New York SCribes Pass Resolu-
 ton to Present to Directors

uOl W FTeSell to DlfeCl0IS
 New York, June 3s.-Followinl he demand of the New York chapts # the Baseball Writers Association It . special meeting in the Pres .lub yesterday morning, that the Na ional league reopen the ceiebrAtat ,ase of John J. McGrAw, several clul owners of that organization declared hat they would insist on . thorouS1 
 If. said the owners. the league hal oeen duped into accepting the stats nent signed by McGraw. in which h, all the interviews in whici 10 made q verbal attack on John K Toner. president of tho league. on, ,f the greatest sensations in the his ;ory of the league would follow.
 Tho meeting of the writers was tn, argest and most representative gath .ring of baseball chroniclers that ve las been held in this city. The teno md sense of the gathering is fully in Heated by the following resolutioni passed unanimously:
 Whereas John J. McGraw.
 manager of the New York Giants made his peace with President
 John K. Tener of the National
 league by repudiating an inter-
 view in Pittsburgh which charged
 that executive with general in-
 capacity and the misuse of pow
 er-an interview which we are
 confident was accurate, and
 Whereas President Tener and
 the board of directors of the Ma
 tional league accepted McGraw's
 repudiation without investigation
 and without giving the baseball
 writers hearing and then de-
 clared the incident closed. and
 Whereas the New York chap
 ter of the Baseball Writer1s As-
 sociation. in meeting assembled
 at the New York Press club on
 June 27. 1917, believes that sa
 great injustice has been done to
 men whose integrity is unques-
 tion1ble; therefore be 1t Ef
 Resolved, That the National
 league be requested to open the
 case in a special meeting at once.
 to the end that the writers bs
 heard in their own defence. that
 slur cast on Journalism bs
 wiped out andl that the truth be
 established.
 To Employ Legal Aid.
 In addition to adopting these rest lutions Chairman George H. Dale a committee to sum T and prepare the case of the new, paper men. This committee was en powered to employ legal aid and otl erwise equip itself for handling tt cause of the writers fully before u National leagues board of director The committee is composed of Il W. J. McBeth of tt Tribune, W. s. Farnsworth. sportir editor Of the American. and Inn Brown of the Sun.
 Following this meeting the boar of directors of the Sporting Writer of Greater New York m, and indorsed tho action of the Basl ball Writers Association. The q rectors went on record has favorin full and complete cooperation wit tho baseball writers In obtaining comprehe ensive investigation of th situation.
 In reply to . query last night . to whether or not he would ask th league to reopen the matter, M Tener said:
 ''I have no definite knowledge ( just what action was taken by th sporting writers today. Howeve there is nothing that should be hid den in baseball, and the Nations league is ready and willing to n1ak public it's records on any matter which the press or baseball publ may be interested"
 Owners Ready for Aotaon.
 It appears now that club owner are beginning to feel they were nt fully acquainted with all angles of th case when they exonerated Mc0xa' and allowed the slur on local new paper men to stand. In fact 1t WI brought out at yesterdays meetin that reports of coercion of Mc0ra, at the meeting of the league director last week were without foundation
 Barney Dreyfus of the Pittsburg when he read yesterdays Associate Press despatch on the action of tn local sporting men commented as fol lows:
 This puts the National league 1 8 bad light as having used coercio to get the statement from McGrav and I for one am not going to made the goat to put McGraw l right again with the newspaper The hearing the newspaper men n for undoubtedly will be granted an the McGraw case will be reopened.
 In addition to what Barney Dres fus has to say, two other club owr CTS who were in New York last nigh stated that they favored strongly more thorough investigation of tn tangfe. They said that it was thei to have the matter sifted 1 the bottom. no matter whom s strikes, club owners or Manager Mt Graw. Especially are they concerne in inyesti1atinr the alleged coerciO