Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-23
Red Grange Is
Correspondent
In Divorce Case

In Divorce Case
Los Angeles, July 22-(F-'Ted"
Oranges latest role is that OF CO.
| respondent in a divorce suit.
Charles A. Taylor. wealthy oil sup
| ply dealer. at his Beverly Hills home
last night revealed that he had
| named the titan-haired Wheaton.
| Ills, ice man in a cross complaint to
| the divorce suit recently filed by his
wife, Grace Taylor. He said he
| signed the cross complaint yester.
| day.
81 am extremely sorry this oc-
CURED, Charles Pyle. Oranges man
ager is my cousin, and through him
/ have come to be on very friendly
terms with Red. Grange Is too much
| of gentleman to do anything wrong
! and he was named only to show how
my wife acted" Taylor explained.
| In Taylor's cross action, which he
| said he instructed his lawyers to hls
| today, the oil man charged that his
wife became infatuated. with the
! football player. On one occasion
| Taylor alleged in his complaint. his
| wife went automobile riding with
| Grange and at another time refused
| an empty seat next to the red headed
| gridiron star, but sat on his lap.
clasped his face in her hands ana
| embraced and kissed him.
On another occasion Mrs. Taylor
| is alleged toNhave called Grange on
| the telephone and made an appoint
| ment TO meet him in his hotel rooms.
! Her husband protested that lit was
| foolish and degrading; that hun
| dreds Of women had been and would
be infatuated with a prominent man
| like Grange" Despite his objections,
Mrs. Taylor kept the appointment but
| was accompanied by her sister, the
| husband alleges.
Red is a wonderful boy" Mrs.
Taylor is quoted as having informed
her husband upon her return from
| her visit to Oranges hotel.
Mrs. Taylor, who is seeking a d.
vorce on grounds of cruelty, last
night announced through her attor-
neys that she would refute the i'm
plicattons made by her husband. She
| explained that her husband went
along on several occasions when she
was with Grange.
Chicago, July 22-(P)-Red Grange,
| the "Galloping Ghost" came home to
Wheaton yesterday, but he barely had
| time to doff his sun helmet with its
sky blue band, and change his pastel
| colored tweed suit for vacation rain.
| ment, when news dispatch came gall
looping after quoting a Los Angeles
papers saying he had been named in
a cross bill in answer to a divorce
! action.
Grange, who has been registering
before movie camera in Hollywood,
and who is going back to his first love.
| Wheaton ice wagon, in preparation
| for his fall football campaign, regis
| tered amazement when informed Of a
| story printed in the Los Angeles Ex-
aminer saying that Charles A. TAYLOR,
oil supply man of Beverly Hills, had
named him in a cross complaint to a
divorce action previously brought by
| his wife, Clarice Taylor.
| ITS certainly a surprise to me-" he
! said. Certainly / know Taylor and
his wife. Taylor is a cousin Of my
! manager Charles Pyle. 1 met them
| through him when I was playing foot
ball in Florida. And I met them again
in Los Angeles, where they live. Of
| course there's nothing to those
| charges"
The Examiner story said the oil man
charged in the bill that his wife be-
came infatuated with the football
player, called him wonderful boy"
went riding with him on one occasion
| last June, once sat on his lap and
| kissed him, and on another occasion
| called him on the phone made an ap-
pointment for meeting, despite her
husbands objections, and kept the ap-
| polntment, accompanied by her sister.
| The newspaper account continued
that two other men, one a Los Angeles
attorney, also were named in the
| laf, r,s.
| Taylor Her attorneys. however, we're
quoted as saying that either Pyle or
! Taylor were present whenever she was
| with Grange. Mrs. TAYLOR charges
| her husband with cruelty.
! Grange. who declared his acquain-
tance with the Taylors was entirely
| casual, said:
| Mrs. Taylor did come over to the
hotel one night with her sister. There
was big bunch there. So there was
| nothing wrong with that" The alleg-
ed kissing episode brought the re-
spouse: That's news to me. The
whole thing is news"
Why. Taylor was at the station to
| bid me goodbye when I left Los An
| geles Sunday. He never said anything
! about cross complaint then. am
| concerned about this and am going
| TO wire Los Angeles to find oit about
it,"
Red received warm welcome yes
| terday from. his dad, Lyle n. Grange
and his kid brother, Garland, the lat
| ter joking about the pith helmet which
framed Oranges titan pate.
! Il don't know whether it is fashion
! able said Grange when reporters
| gazed aghast as the top piece IT Just
saw it and liked 1t and bought it. It
| ought to be great for peddling ice"
Il had great time in the movies
| Movie work was hard at first but when
| got used to it 1 found it easier than
| football And l met a lot of very nice
| people Naw-no girls"