New Britain herald., 1926-10-06

Somebody, who has successfully
 kept under cover up to the spresent time, is trying his best to put the
 football team with Red" Grange
 and the New York Yankees in Hart
 ford Sunday afternoon, on the rocks, according to information which has
 come to the ears of Manager Ed.
 Daley and Promoter Peter Perakos of the All-New Britain club.
 Starting with the announcement in a Hartford paper this morning that Eddie Barnikow of Meriden and Joe Manning of Springfield, last years captain of the Fordham uni
 versity eleven, had signed with the i Hartford Blues, developments have | broken so fast over the heads of the 1 local men as to leave them in a 1 daze wondering where they are at, The worst phase of the case was brought to the attention of Manager | Daley when he called Manager ! Cassidy of the Silvertown club of Springfield. New Britain's opponents | last Sunday in an attempt to get two players lined up who would take the place of the two who are said to have left New Britain to join Hartford and Manager Cassidy stat ed that he didn't care to do business with the New Britain man.
 When he asked why, Manager Cassidy answered that Sunday night shortly before 12 o'clock midnight, two reporters from the Springfield l Republican called at his home and informed him that the publication l had received a telephone call sup posedly from Manager Daley in New Britain saying that the Spring field management and players were "a bunch of dirty crooks and say ing that they had taken away more money from this city than they were supposed to get. Of course, Man ager Dailey immediately set the Springfield man right on the ques- tion of the telephone call to the Springfield paper but now the local man is wondering just where that | telephone call came from.
 Last Sunday, it happened -that In the agreement with the Springfield club anent the game In this city, it was stipulated that the rent for Me morial field would be taken out of the gross proceeds. In the settling l up of the financial end of the agree ment, Manager Daley failed to take 1 his sum out. He met Manager
 (Doc) Moran of the Springfield club at the Tabs building on Lafayette street and told him about it. MT. Moran said that Cassidy had al- ready gone to Springfield but he would tell him about 1t when he arrived in the City of Homes. There was no argument of any kind and the two men talked in the most friendly fashion.
 Then came the information from Springfield to the effect that the scurrilous telephone call had been receiTed by the Springfield paper. Manager Daley immediately this morning set about to trace the call to see where 1t came from. Ar rangements were made to have the reporters who called on the Spring field man Sunday night get in touch with the local man and inform him where the telephone call came from. He also arranged to have the call traced through the local telephone exchange in an effort to find out, If possible where the call came from.
 This is the worst piece of business that has ever been heard of in sporting circles In this city and dirt is clean towards the efforts of the diseased mind which Is trying to in- jure the integrity of the local man. ager, Ed. Daley. Fans in this city