The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-09
RUTH ACCUSES FRAzEE
 OF SLICHTINC BOSTON
Says Red Sox Owner Cares Nothing for Hub Fans Calls Attention to How Magnates Held Up Knights of
 Columbus Last Season.


 New York club could meet my de- mands, why couldn't Boston?"
 This is the question Babe Ruth asked yesterday as he walked around the Municipal golf links with Big Bill'' James of the White Sox and former member of the Red Sox.
 Ruth is keenly disappointed at hay ing to leave Boston, and he planes it all on F'razee, who, he says, is get ting ready to quit the game in the Hub and ds trying to get all he can out of selling players before he gets out.
 Following is the story Ruth told:
 q have had hunch all along that there would be a deal put over whereby I would go to some other club in the American League. Before %e battle between Johnson and the triple a1liance,' there was not much chance, as Ban would have been against it, but since the war in the American League, anything can be expected
 .'Frazee Is through in Boston and he knows 1t. He never has been a popular magnate. His theatrical tao tics have not been a hit in baseball and he is not wanted by the major
  battle has been on he is slipping every day and he sees his finish. Fra zee care nothing for the Boston base ball public and his actions show it.
 "Boston is rated as the greatest baseball city in the country. They have always supported the game there regardless of the kind of team they have had and no matter what team a nIo ic hn 9. good play he is given his share of ap plause. The fellows all like to play in Boston and I feel as though I were born there The fans have always been my friends and I am telling you that it hurts to have to leave the Boston fans
 Gave Babe a Nickel Smoke. '1 have always given the best I had. F,razee tries to alibi by saying that as a star I would be an obstacle to the club winning pennants. He says Cobb has been with Detroit and Johnson with Washington, but they are not pennant-winners. I have been with the Red Sox six years. and in that time we won three pennants. | Not so bad? I am not or never have been a disturbing element. I have always played for the interests of the public and the players and Frazee knows 1t. Take the Ruth Day in Boston, for instance, the Knights of Columbus, of which order I am a member, turned out in a body to hon. or me and what did he do? He raised the prices of the granstand seats and held them up. After the game he called me into the office | and gave me a nickel cigar for draw | ing 32,000 people into the park. He | talks about shooting square. I guess | he did by raising the prices on that day. He is lucky to have anybody | in the park at all next year if he : owns the ball club.
 | eff was not worth the money do you think for a minute that Miller l Huggins would have made a special trip to Los Angeles to see me? And when I say we came to terms you know the rest That is what makes l me sore. I am not worth the money in Boston, but I am in New York That is a swell laugh. but the Bos- ton fans are the ones who are being made the suckers.
 "Frazee put me on the block. have not lost anything only the as. sociation of the people I thought the
 most of. I ann refused the privilege of playing in my favorite city all be. cause the man who owns the club 1. money-mad-
 HHe cares nothing about Bosto1 people. He does not belong there
 and when he sells out, which I expec
 will be the next big piece of new:
 emanating from the East, he vii
 care little whether the Red Sox fnis1
 first or last
 "I am going to get part of the pur
 chase price Or know the reason why
 Why shouldn't I? I intend leavin,
 for the East and Boston within thu next two weeks and see Frazee abou
 getting some of that money.
 "I have come to terms with tn Yankees and am perfectly satisfie' with the terms of the contract.
 have not yet signed a contract, bu
 an agreement, which understand i binding. I will play just as hard fo
 the new management as I did fo . Boston. I am going to try for a neV
 home-run record on the Polo Ground , Some of the boys who are winterin .. here tell me I vii have an easie time in New York hitting them thai did in Boston
 , " will return home before goinj to spring training and maybe I vii have something more to say abou I the honorable M. Frazees who is ali bling himself by banning me-" The major league players winter
 ing here were all surprised at hear
 ing of the deal which transferre
 Ruth to New York They all say h lis easily the best drawing card i
 the circuit, surpassing the grea
 Cobb. The boys all claim the Tank
 will come near paying for him O
 the returns of the Sunday games. Ruth is playing golf every day. H plays 54 holes a day at least fiv time a week, so that he is going t
 be in pretty fair shape He is bu , ' on the game and he has all the tour < ists on the course amazed at the lon
 drives he makes.
 He Is satisfied with the terms C V his new contract, but he has it in fo Frazee, whom, he claims. sold hiI = for spite.
 TOLEDO BUYS TWO PLAYERS.
 | TO1AdO. Ian. Purchase of IT