The Washington times., 1920-08-10
m GRAW FIGHT
!. TO Be PROBED
District Attorney and Police
Seek Facts About Injury to
Comedian SIavin.

NEW YORK, AUG. lO-The LAMBS
Club scandal will be broken wide open
today. when the district attorney and
the Federal authorities begin inquiries
into the mysterious Incidents which
eliminated In the finding OF John e.
slavin. comedian. unconscious on Sun
day morning on the sidewalk in front
OF John j.. McGraw's home.
Slsvin Is stiil unconscious, lowering
between life and death. In. st. Luke's
Hospital. Concussion of the brain Is
the latest diagnosis OF his condition,
RECOVERY UNCERTAIN.
Surgeons said last night that he
had improved slightly during the'ds
but that his frail physique and ad-
vanced AGED made the prospect OF re-
covery uncertain. He had not recov-
cred consciousness since 7:t5 on Sun
day morning.
District Attorney Swami assigned
Assistant District Attorney Mario and
several aides to the case last night.
One was detailed to the hospital. pre-
pared to take a statement from Mr..
Slavin IL he regains consciousness.
The mysterious injury-"to Siavin
followed a disturb bance in the Lambs
Siuts AutSIaW' tuauoBct VI tht
had a fistic encounter with one OF the
club members. The house committee
of the club refused yesterday to dis
close, the name of the man with whom
McGray clined. but a member of the
club told a reporter that the baseball
managers opponent was William H..
Boyd.
SAYS BOYD FOUGHT McGRAw.
l. -. 4. <a
merly leading man with Ethel Barry
more. He Is tall and powerful. He
has lived at the Lambs since Poker
RANCH closed recently at the Olympic
Theater, Chicago. Members of the
Lambs house committee would not
deny that Boyd was the man who
beat McGraw. when the question was
put square to them.
Reference to Boyd as the club mem
Der in the alteration recalled reports
that the Giants manager had been
suspended from the Lambs about
three months ago after a fight in the
club house with Walter knight,
amusement promoter.
The Lambs tried at first to suppress
the news OF the ARRAY. then issued a
McGraw for the hght in the club.
statement under pressure, blaming
which preceded Slavin's injury. Final
ly, George Howell" chairman Of the
house committee, natly refused to
give the police any Information and
asserted that he was speaking for the
club.
The Lambs statement, issued after
a meeting of the house committee.
read: ....r
AT the time of this alteration
ON Sunday morning there was no one
in the grill room with the exception
of half a dozen persons at most. There
was no celebration; just a friendly
talk. McGraw came in and mistook
a certain member for a man. with
whom he had a difference. He grossly
insulted this member, and was very
violent and abusive, and provoked a
quarrel in which the club member was
on the defensive.
sLAvIN PERFECTLY NORMAL.
tied. Mr.. Slayin endeavored to per-
suade his friend, Mr.. McGraw, to leave
the club, and he. with Lieutenant
Commander Leggett, put Mr.. McGraw
into taxicab and took him away
from the club. Mr.. Slavin had at no
time any part in the alteration, ex-
cept as q peacemaker, and left the
club in a perfectly normal condition"
That the Lambs intended to make
McGraw the scapegoat of the scandal,
IL possible, was made clear from the
outset.
District Attorney Swami, in direct
ing the investigation last night. made
it plain that the refusal of the Lambs
to give the police aid in solving the
mystery will not block his inquiry.