The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-03
CAP HUSTON BACK,
EAGER FOR PEACE
Ualf Owner Of Yankees Not
Looking for Fight With
Ban johnson.
WANTS AID FOR INJURED
Defends Letter Indicting Own
ers for Failure to Help
Country.
WANTS AID FOR INJURED
n, FREDERICK G. LIEB.

~ FREDERICK @. LIEB.
The war Is truly overl Az lingering
doubts as 10 the accuracy Of that state
,,ent wero removed yesterday when
Lieut. Col. Tillnghast Huston. half
owner of the New York Americans.
sobbed UP at Yankee headquarters on
Forty second street. The Appearance of
Lieut.. Col. Huston On his old haunts
caused quite q furore. for even among
his most intimate circle Of friends Il was
understood that the Cap would remain
overseas for some time.
"Trl tell you the truth. boys. Just as
soon as that armistice was signed con-
Guided I had seen enough OF the war;"
sid Huston. "I got an awful laundering
10 have look at Broadway"
Huston arrived last Tuesday at New
ro-t News, Va. on the Ryndam. He is
row on a ten day furlouSh, after which
Re will report TO Camp Humphreys. near
Washington, where he expects TO be
mustered out
L!eut-Col Huston was the original
Big leaguer to get In the war. He bea:
Hank Gowdy into . uniform BY several
months. A veteran of the Spanish
American war, where he served as Cap
tain OF engineers, Huston offered his
services TO the Government the day war
vas declared. He spent May OF 1917
IN Cincinnati assisting in the recruiting
Q; the Sixteenth Engineers. His regi-
ment went into training In Detroit in
Iune. 1t sailed from New York on Au-
gust !, 1917, and was one OF the first
American units to reach the other side.
Huston looks ten years younger than
when he last appeared In New York
For Peace in Baseball.
"Old Cap" returned from France in a
very peaceful frame of mind. He did
no, live up TO press notices. Persons
who expected him to lecture to baseball
tor its delinQ euncies during the war or
booked for him TO take a strong anti
Ban Johnson attitude we're doomed to
disappointment.
Nor IL Huston bent on reforming base
ball. as proclaimed in an interview ap-
rearing over Johnny Evers's name while
the Trojan was in France.
81 was very careful in talking to
Evers, and took pains not to say any
'Gng Of 4 drastic nature" said Huston.
y don't know what Johnny printed
about me. Harry Sparrow says he sent
me the interview in France, but I never
received IT," said Huston However, I
want 10 say that I have been 50 out OF
touch with baseball affairs that I am
rot trying to do any reforming. I want
10 ind out what is what first
Huston Is mostly Interested IN having
"a IN n NJ h ty,nr 70, hal ,lnx
Who have been wounded in service He
came over on the same boat with Hugh
Miller, the former first baseman OF the
St Louis Federals who did heroic work
with the marines, and was wounded on
September u.
Hugh Miller Hurt.
Miller was n great fighter" said
Huston. He wears a Distinguish ed
Service Medal for capturing a bunch Of
Feinies at Chateau Thierry, but they go
him later on. His left leg was broken
leaving one leg an inch longer than the
other. He is incapacitated as far a,
baseball IL concerned.
Baseball should do something hand.
some for fellows like Miller who have
been wounded in service and have be.
come incapacitated. We can't do toe
much for them. Any one who saw those
Yankee kids going over the top, and
knows what they went through without
71urTnur, Is willing 10 do anything fol
them"
Asked whether he favored Ban John.
sons scheme TO devote the proceeds OF
TIRE reNt worlds series to building @
horne for wounded ball players. Hustor
said 1t was the first he had heard OF II
However. want to say l am for any
thing that seeks to help any baseball
men who we're injured in service" h,
added
Questioned about the open letter which
re sent TO baseball owners last winter
severely indicting the owners and players
for failure to arise to demands OF tn,
way, Huston said he deemed the lette'
fAcesaary and for the best interests o
baseball and the country.
They didn't appreciate the serious
mss Of tho situation back home" sale
Huston. Il was on the ground and saw
wat vas coming, 7 realized the United
s,7;es had a stupendous Job on its hand
o. that it would take a lot OF Yanke'
laos % turn the tide.
Letter Had Desired Eject.
Baseball Is in the public eye. II oc
'ir=' big place in the minds OF tn
!n.'2 Or the nation. | believed that II
''.'f SIR up baseball to a full sense o
wa Vas before US IL would have a help
'fnct on the entire country / be
Hove he letter bore fruit, as baseballi
c9t'r button to the war was far create
'tlN than in 1917"
J! .'pu said he did not see lot 0
o1soha.l in France. "A lot OF the fel
''%, who came back have told CLOWN,
|"N'+ OF all the baseball they saw
played IN France" continued Huston. "
suppose II must have been back In tn
,',' bl,ets. because did not see a grea
ga. ~ H. We were too busy working o
hgh'Hg 70 play any baseball. The boy
.''aS"r ally would toss ball around
ot' as rule il was work. work, worl
q, the tine
The most baseball saw was whe
w. were building railroads behind tn
h'''l Ines last spring. II did not ge
ndrt In''l nearly 10 o'clock and the boy
n'l some fine twilight games betwee
anon AN and Canadian teams"
h.",u said ha saw Sergeant Han
'o'dy Lieut.. Harry Mccormick for
n'r" of the Giants; Major Branc
u. 'u president OF the Cardinals, an
~"TH. former New York baseball writ
H"" holding commissions in tn
.'T" during his trips through Franc
ana lINomhure
Dye day a buck private introduce
80 F., 70 me-" added Gap" with
b. he had received crack owe
no. read during a mxup with some O
.' .ldies. 1t was Gene Iayden. u XII
g4,'e.1er who was with tho Yankees
'sH years ago"
Was Under Fire often.