New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Mind Blank ON
Slavinn Injury,
McGraw Says
Baseball Manager Does No
Remember What Hap
pened After He Was Beat
en- Up at the Lamb,
Hit Over Head With Bottle
Charges He Was Held While
Actor Struck Him; Says
He Bought Whisky in Club

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John j. McGraw consented yesterday
to see authorities investigating the
manner in which John c. Slavin. ar
actor, received the fracture of the skull
from which he was suffering when
picked up outside the home Of McGraw
last Sunday morning. The baseball
manager said he couldn't remember
anything that happened after he left
tie Lambs with Slavin and Winfield
Llggett, short time before the former
tell senseless AZ the curb.
The Giants manager, who still ex-
hibits the black eyes and other in
Juries he suffered in a fcht with w II
Boyd At the Lambs, remembered the
occurrences of the evening WILDLY, he
sand, lie denied that he had tried tc
play the lion at the Lambs and as.
serted that one Lamb had held his
arms while Mr.. B ,yd pounded his heal
with water hol tie
Up to that time, he said, water bot.
ties had not played a prominent part
IN the evenings adventures. His party
FAD consumed severed quarts OF
whisky at the Lambs. he said. bef,re
had bought two quarts of whisky there
himself
this assertion aroused The Lambs
whose officers have asserted stead.
lastly that no liquor was sold at
Their club.
The Official callers whom NJ. Nc.
Craw consented to see after the nu-
merous reouis in the la Il few dav,
were Albert Unger, Assistant District
Attorney; DR.. f. A. Mcclure, prise,
physician at the Tombs, and Detectives
Lowe and Fitzgerald.
McGraW is said to have explainee
that the fight with Boyd grew out OF
an argument chat the Giants manager
had with an insurance agent. The
Insurance agent wanted to talk busi
ness, McGraw said. McGraw preferred
not to talk business. Boyd, he says, in
sisted that McGraw should consider {
business proposal made by the insur
ance man.
He was disputing the issue witt
Boyd, according to fingers narration
OF the statement, when the actor is
alleged 10 have hit the Giants manager
With water bottle. McGraw asserted
Inger says, that a member of the
Lambs leld his hands while Boyd deal
blows upon his face and body.
mystery Not Cleared Up
Jnger said at the close of the visit
to the McGr4w home that while the
statement OF the Giants manager
showed that there had been a drunken
brawl in The Lambs and much whisk,
l had been drunk, It did not Gear Ny
the mystery as 20 how Slavin received
his injuries, which have confined hin
to st. Luke's Hospital for a week, un-
able to make any statement
Siavln had accompanied McGraw tt
the latter's home after the quarrel
He is supposed to lave fallen after he
he'd alishted from the taxicab in front
of McGraw's house, but McGraw as.
serts that he didn't see Slavin fall, nol
did he know that Slavin was wounded
Slavln's chief injury consists of hori.
zontal fracture near the base of The
skull. Two of Slavin's front teeth
were knocked out, also. But McGraw's
mind Is a BLANK as to how these things
happened, and Slavin can't tell his owr
story.
The Distric, Attorneys Office it was
announced yesterday. would continue
It's Investigations. The case probably
VIII be presented to the grand jury or
next Tuesday.
DR.. Mcclure inquired after the
health Of the baseball magnate, an.
vas Informed by McGraw himscll
that he was feeling fairly we'll and no
in any pain. lie got up out Of bed an,
exhibited sJar-shaped scar on hi:
| scalp at the back of his head. 1t Wa.
half healed, and there was no sign O.
infection, according to Dr.. Mcclure
who looked into McGraw's blackenet
eve and examined sundry confusion!
OF his race. He next examined hear
and lungs and reported them as normal
Repeated efforts to solve the mys
terry of Slavin's injuries were fruit
less. McGraw said he had known tho
actor for twenty years and that the!
were the best of friends 'Why,
would be the last person in the worlo
to hurt him." he declared.
Boyd had previously told lDetectiv'
Fitzgerald that the alteration al tn,
Lambs began when McGraw resented
request to omit certain words from hi!