New Britain herald., 1925-01-06
|O'CONNELL OFF
 BASKETBALL TEAM
Frisco League Drops Him.-NeW
 Workers Worry Over Kelly
By Tho Associated Press.

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 San Francisco, Jan. 6.--Jlmmy o'connell, former New York Ma tional league baseball player sus- pended from organized baseball on his admission that he offered a bribe to a player on an opposing team, will not be permitted to play on any professional basketball team in San Francisco, according 10 Dan Mahcr, president of the league which has signed O'Connell. O'Connell was dropped yesterday upon receipt of protests from John A. Heydler, pres ldent of the National league.
 The team In the professional bas- ketball circuit on which O'Connell was expected to play in q season be- ginning next Saturday bears the title of the Adam and Eve" team, named after a perfume manufacturing com pany which backs It financially. On 1t also were signed George Kelly, first baseman of the Giants; Sammy Bohne, Cincinnati inhelder; Bert Cole, former Detroit pitcher; "Wec" Ludoph of the Vernon club in the Pacific Coast league; Ran" Kelly of the Texas league, and Imp" Bcgley, formerly with Cincinnati.
 Prompt action by the officials of the eight club commercial basketball circuit in response to the protest from the president of the National baseball league means that O'Con- nell, former baseball and basketball star in college near San Francisco, will not be able to take part in pro- fessional basketball games in his home town this winter.
 New York, Jan. 6-Presdent John A. Heydler of the National league and Manager John J. McGraw of the Giants await further word from the Pacific coast before taking any ac- ton regarding the reported member. bership of the same basketball team of Jimmy OConnell, barred from baseball and George Kelly of the Giants and Sammy Bohen of the Reds.
 New York Baseball circles were disturbed by the news yesterday, and President Heydler immediately sent a telegram to the coast asking for details. He had received no answer at a late hour last night In the presidents opinion, the National league will take up the matter if the office of Judge kenesaw M. Landis, commissioner of baseball, fails to act.
 Although O'Connell was imme- diately dismissed from the basketball league by the president when word that the situation endangered the baseball careers of Kelly and Bohne reached him. the National league president said that he would con- tinue with his Investigation. Kelly. who was mentioned by O'Connell as one of the men who approached him in the attempted bribery of Heinie Sand of the Phillies to "throw' a game to the Giants late in the season and was later cleared by Landis, was, according to reports, to play in the city games, while O'Connell's con- tract called for only out-of-town ap- pearances.
 Manager McGraw, who ordered his second baseman, Frank Frisch, to refrain from playing baseball during the winter months, said that with Kelly it was a different matter.
 Tt was different with Frisch," he said. Frank was very fast and &C., tive. He was more likely to get hurt. One of his baseball assets was speed and he was liable to destroy it if he played basketball. Kelly gets around pretty lively with his long legs, but he isn't any Frisch on the base paths, don't think basketball would do him any harm. As far as the O'Connell end of it goes, that is up to Judge Landis."