New Britain herald., 1920-12-23
FRAzEE BITTERLY
 ASSAILS JOHNSON
Red SOX Owner Calls on Ban to
 Quit National Game

of guns and the rattle of musketry resounded in the civil warfare of the American League yesterday. In tho first plaG. the executive of the organization. one Byron Ban croft Johnson--often dubbed the stormy petrel of baseball-unmasked the battery concealed behind his shelving brow and made what he con- ceived to be an answer to the charges made against him and his followers by Colonel T. l.. Huston. part owner of the Yankees. The latter had com mented to the general effect that Johnson's action in overriding the pre- cedent of eighteen years by turning down in the selection of a directorate those clubs which failed to kow-tow to him showed a rulc-or-ruin policy. and that his elimination from baseball was necessary for both the success of the new regime in organizes baseball and for the best interests of the younger major league.
 Johnson remorked in his reply that the league had always resorted to the ballot, instead of using the regular TO- tation method. when 1t was found that the latter plan would place an "unde- sirable member upon the board.
 At our meeting" he said, Tit was tho sentiment that two members should not be brought into the direc- torate, as they had attempted to wreck the American League. MT. Rup- pert of the New York club was elected a member of the board, but declined to serve. The club owners then elect ed Md. Shibe to All his place.
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 II. H. Frazee, president of the Bos- ton Red Sox. glancing about for on inkwell, in order to pen a few remarks addressed to tho party in Chicago. dipped his quill pen inadvertently into q pot of vitriol which happened to be standing near. This is what he wrote. signed, sealed and mailed to the be- loved chieftain of the league:
 If you are quoted correctly in the New York and Boston papers today in your statement which reads. The league had always resorted to the ball lot instead of using the usual roat- tion method of the election of the Board of Directors when it was found the rotation method would bring an undesirable member to the board you arc stating a deliberate falsehood. EOu SiSttts It was the Senti- ment that two members be not brought into the directorate as they attempted 10 wreck the American League which you also know is an absolute lie. and is but one more evil dence of your gross stupidity and in- competence to further fill the office you now hold.
 "I had hoped that you had learned something in the last two years. and since the agreement of peace was reached in Chicago I have refrained from making any comment until this unralled for attack on Mir. Comiskey and myself, I think it is about time for you to stop making threats and prove some of the many misleading statements and assertions that you have made. Regardless of the at titudc of anybody clsc in the American League want you to know that from this time on there can he no peace. as far as am concerned. while you and I remain in the American League.
 "Tf you had any sense of justice or realization of tho harm you have caused baseball. or one spark of man. hood. or any regard for the game which has made you possible, you would tender your resignation as pres ident of tho American League before causing any further harm. If you wish to go into any discussion. either privately or publicly. of our relations since my connection with the Ameri- can League in 1916. I will he pleased to meet you at any time or place you mention. But. in the meantime, I strongly advise you to eliminate any further attacks upon the Boston American League baseball club or me personally"
 Charges Huston Took Letter.