The Washington times., 1922-08-19
DOUGLAS DECLARES HE
WROTE LETTER THINKING
iM'GRAW HAD FIRED HIM
By ARTHUR ROBINSON.

BY ARTHUR
Is Copyright. 1874 BY
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.--This Is
sion Of what he claims is the true
leading up to his expulsion from
He ripped off the veil of mystery ,
Giant pitcher prostrated and in b,
his home at las Wadsworth aveni
! There he told this writer a sto
the game. He named for the firs
been charged he had written q
for a consideration. Up to now
whom he wrote.
Douglas admits he wrote the lot.
ter.
He claims he is now concealing
nothing. He told this writer, he
said. the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
A giant in stature, Douglas IS
now broken in spirit--a sobbing.
human wreck. suddenly and strange.
y aged.
And the childish mind which was
the plague of his manager, his
teammates and New York fans has
suddenly matured. He has been
''i5,usiSssoi pousIss is a southOrner. born
l and reared in a small town. He
speaks with a curious drnwl and
t~ang.
Il guess I amt got no chance to
get back" he says.
Then, rs he unwinds the thread
nj Nha x.rHtnh
baseball world and almost killed
the Giants hopes OF q pennant,
he names Leslie Mann. the st.
Louis Cardinal outfielder, rs tho
player to whom he wrote the
letter which brought out his OF.
pulsion from baseball In Pitts
-burgh on Tuesday.
Today this letter was made pub.
Nc in Chicago by Judge Landis:
81 want to leave here. l don't
want to see this guy win the pen.
nant. You know I can pitch and
I am afraid II stay 1 will win the
pennant for him.
Talk this over with the boys and
IL It is all right send the goods to
my house at night and will go to
- fishing camp. Let me know II
you want to do this. and l will go
home on the next train.
(Signed) Phil Douglas"
But Judge Landis did not give
out the facts which led to Doug.
has expulsion.
These facts, as given by Douglas
himself are as follows:
That following the last game
which he pitched on July 81 he
went to the apartment Of . friend.
~ got drunk" Douglas says, "and
n went to sleep"
lH Then, he claims, two detectives
i, suddenly broke into the room and
4 attempted to drag him out.
iii II tes' nacherly resisted EN-" says
Douglas.
M The detectives then threatened to
Il Blackjack him, Douglas says, and be.
fore he was able to dress himself
!! fully he was dragged downstairs to
" taxicab In which three other detec-
& tives waited.
He was taken to the One Hundred
and Thirty-fifth street station house
and then to a sanitarium on Central
Park West. This was on Tuesday,
August ]. His clothes were taken
I from him and he was kept a prisoner
.there, he says, and released the fol.
lowing Saturday.
\ Saturday. believing, he says. that
.,he had been fired" by McGfsw, he
nwrote Mann. who was then in Bos.
,iton with the Cardinals, the letter
which was made public in Chicago
yesterday.
s.. After writing this letter McGraw
called him to his office in the club
house at the Polo Grounds and had a
long talk with him.
He called me everything-names,
q can't repeat here, but when he
- got through I realized ] was still
with the Giants and hadn't been
fired"
q. That night, in a long distance call
10 Boston Douglass said. II asked
him please to tear up the letter, and
told him I hadn't been fired"
Douglas says Mann agreed to do
this, but instead showed Il to Branch
Hickey. the Cardinal manager, who
Immediately communicated the Incl.
dent to McGraw, Judge Landis, and
John Heydler, president of the Ma
tional League.
On the same day Saturday, so
Douglas says DR.. William Bender,
''the Giants club physician, called at
,the Douglas apartment and gave
,Doublas a hypodermic to quiet him.
This was repeated Sunday and Mon.
day. and on Monday night Douglas
left for Pittsburgh with Jess Bar.
kett, his "chaperone."
y. On his arrival In Pittsburgh Doug.
has was called to McGraw's room.
i'Besides McGraw. Judge Landis,
Names Tierney. business manager OF
1.-THE Giants, and woman whose