The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-02

I'VE have already decided on our
plan Of action" continued Huston,
getting well worked up over the sub
ject. "if Johnson does not lift this
suspension. And when we take ac-
ton, il will be done quickly.
why Johnson picks on the New
York club at this time is beyond me.
! just can't figure it out Take the
case OF Joe Jackson and other Chi
cago American players last year.
Jackson, ! believe, left his club flat
when called in the draft and joined
shipyard outfit. Another of his
teammates did the same. Yet, did
anything happen to them when they
returned TO their team last spring?
Cites LOwdermIIk CSC.
Then there was the recent case of
LoWdermilk. the Chicago pitcher. He.
too, recently left his club without
permission. He returned several
weeks later and / never heard of any
action taken against him. l do know
he pitched against us last Wednesday.
There was the case Of Leonard
last spring. Leonard refused TO join
the New York club, and we had TO
dispose of him to Detroit l don't re-
call Mr.. Johnson penalizing either
Leonard or the Detroit club for his
failure to report TO us. There is, of
course, the case of Sallee in the Ma
tional League, sold after he had left
ais club. but there are enough incl
dents in. our7-own league.
why. players guilty OF the most
dagrant conduct on the ball field
have never been dealt with as severe
~ as this suspension which Johnson
Dlasters on Mays more than two
weeks after the offense of which
the player is alleged to be guilty"
Mcclellan Takes a Fall.
Bill Mcclellan in Joday's New York
Tribune writes:
The average New York fan is GER
ain that IL Mays had been secured by
ne White SoX. Bellicose Ban would
not have had a word to say. The
car" or baseball lowers his voice
md removes his hat in the presence
II Old Roman Comisl1ey. He seems to
believe that the owner of the White
;;ox is liable to slip a bomb under the
ihrone at the first excuse
The assertion of johnson that he Is
stickler for discipline in the Ameri-
an League gave a laugh even TO the
-ritated New York fans. They were
thinking OF the time when the Cleve-
land team absolutely refused to play
cut their season. No disciplinary ac-
ton was taken against the club or the
Tub owner at that time.
why does the. car so rigidly in
st on discipline for one player when
he lets an entire team get away with
defiance of every rule of the league?
BE New York fans want to know. Is
there any particular reason why Ban
johnson should stand for tempera-
mental stun from the Cleveland team
while he travels the rest of the cir
cuit handing out indefinite suspen-
sIons with a lavish hand?"
Bill FarnsTOrth DeIVes.
Bill Farnsworth, sporting editor of
the New York American, writes to-
day:
Last fall the Cleveland club. in !
which il has been alleged that John |
son has invested his own money. did
not go to St.-LoUis to play the final
two games offthe season. According
TO the constitution Of the American
League, the owners can have their
franchises taken from them for such
: breach Of discipline. But the Cleve- |
land owners not only didn't lose their
franchise, but were not even fined.
Last spring the New York Yam
With Dutch Leonard, yet johnson
allowed the Detroit club to purchase
his release. Why didn't he insist that
the southpaw join the Yankees or not
be allowed to play baIl?.
If Johnson is going to make the
Yankees a goat in this Mays deal