Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
EXPOSING Of DOLAN
SCANDAL PROMISED
Lands Again May Have to
Take Hand in Affairs of
New York Club.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

n YEW YORK, January 4.-Before
M the 1880 season starts, the base
ball world may know a little
bit more than the vague bits Of
information it has learned hitherto
about the Cozy Dolan and Jimmy
o'Connell scandal.
The National League is perturbed.
The New York Giants are again in a
muddle. The Dolan and OConnell
cases were brought up again this week
in a financial row concerning the
Giants. The revival of the case has
gone so far that Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain Lands may have to act again.
The National League would like to
know whether Magistrate Francis X.
McGuade, former treasurer of the
Giants, knows anything more about the
Dolan- Council affair than has al
ready been given out by John j. Nc
Graw, manager and part owner of the
Giants.
Exposure Promised.
Promises of an exposure OF the So
called scandal and intimations that
Charles A. Stoneham, president of the
Giants. along with McGraw land their
clique" are trying TO compel william
F. Kenny, hacker of ex-Gov. Alfred E.
Smith for the presidency, to buy out
the Stoneham- McGraw interests at an
exorbitant price were made here by
McCuade's counsel.
The Dolan-O'C onnell case broke ia
1924, when Cozy, as Giant coach, and
O'Connell, the Giants $4,000 outfield-
er, were convicted by Judge Lands of
trying to bride Heinie Sands OF the
| PhilieS to throw a game when the
Giants, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn were
running neck and neck for the pennant.
Both Dolan and O'Connell were expelled
| from organized base ball.
The New York base ball club has
kbeen a prickly pear to the National
League ever since the senior circuit was
organized.
The first New York club, the Mutuals,
was kicked out of the National League
in 1876 for failing to live up to prom
| ises. The Mutuals established a bad
precedent. New York has been making
a zigzag trail ever since.
| John B. Day brought New York back
into the National League In the eighties,
treated his ball players like princes and
was thrown down by them. He went
come to his rescue. Day lost business
control of the club and it finally fell
into the hands of Andrew Freeman.
Brush Boosted Team.
Then he sold out to John T. Brush
The latter began to boost base ball in
New York. Shortly he had a pennant
winner. That tickled the other owners.
Brush proposed some rules for the world
series which would make it compulsory
to be played under the direction of
organized base ball. These we're adopt
ed because Brush forced them down the
unwilling Threats Of owners who wanted
to run any world series personally, di-
Wding up the receipts to suit them
selves.
After the New York club had played
in one world series and had made some
money, the other seven owners wanted
Brush to share with them, but he
couldn't see 1t.
BY and by Brush died and his es-
tate. which succeeded to the control
/ OF the club and sold out to the pres
ent owners, patched this quarrel UP
with the other owners and the Giants
were reasonably peaceful all during the
Hampstead regime. The other seven
clubs resented anything that the Giants
did which savored Of expense. Once
an ofhcial of the Giants increased the
meal money for players to the extent
OF $3.50 season and he was taken very
severely to task.