The Washington herald., 1917-06-23
Reputation TITLE
FOR 'JAWN M'GRAW
Manager of Giants Seeks Loophole
in Statement of Directors.

New York, June 22.-John ]. Nc
Graw, widely known as "Muggsy."
has repudiated his reputation. He
has said that he was advised to sign
OF interviews in which he was credit
ed with having criticised John K.
Tener, president OF the National
League. He said he did so I'm the
best interests Of all concerned" BY
''all concerned" McGraw undoubtedly
made a big mistake. He has pulled
the biggest bone" in his turbulent
career. He has won the reputation
championship. but that is all he has
won.
For long fandom has regarded Nc
Graw as a fighter, but in this instance
the biggest battle he has had-he
tighter. His pugnacious inclinations
evidently have been engulfed in a
sudden desire for peace. The chip
that he has been wont to carry on
his shoulder has been knocked of and
he has failed to toe the mark.
McGraw Is willing to dismiss the
matter. 1t is but natural that he
should be. But McGraw is but one
person in baseball. He Is far from
beng baseball personifed. 1t may be
that McGraw believes that he has
made baseball. He has not. Base
LoAA hoH AhNNIh"F anu lnC
sooner the scrappy manager of the
Giants realizes this fact the better 1t
will be for McGraw.
The following is q sport editorial
from the pen OF J. w. McConaughy, of
the New York Evening Mail:
McGraw reputation and short-dis-
tance lying contest has been success
fully played out so far as It goes. II
has only further established the fact
that baseball magnates are never in
such good form as when lying to or
lying about somebody or something.
and as this has been a recognized
dominant quality of baseball mag
mates for a number of years, It was
hardly worth the space IL got
McGraw accused President Tener of
all sorts Of grave misuses of power
and general incapacity. He particu-
lsrly requested newspaper men to
there would be no doubt about what
he thought about the president of the
league. OF course, when pressure"
was brought to bear he signed a re-
pudiatton which he knew was a lie
and which the men who got him to
the men who accepted 1t knew was
a tie.
But that is an unimportant trife.
Lying, per Sc, does not attract any
attention in organized baseball. The
question Is now, what Is President
Terer going to do about the charges
that McGraw publicly made against
him and substantially repeated IN
the New York evening papers yester-
day by repudiating the reputation
which. he says, he signed under pres
sure?
Is President Tener going to make
McGraw prove what he said, or Is he
going to let the charges stand with
out proof? Doesn't he want an in.
yestigation? Doesn't he want Nc
Graw to come forward publicly and
present his proofs or admit that he
has none and that he ought to be
thrown out of organized baseball?
Baseball magnates are not noted
for their sensitiveness, but it seems
hardly possible that even a baseball
magnate's skin is so thick that it does
not miss an apology plaster which
was ripped of twenty-four hours
after 1t was grudgingly plastered on.
OF course, the purpose of the whole
abtect business was to hush up this
only important issue by the simple
expedient of calling a number of
reputable newspaper men liars. The
Evening, Mail doesn't intend to have
1t hushed up that. way.