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Show BRIGHAM CLUB OUSTS MENGES Holdout for More Cash Gets Little Sympathy From Peaches BRIGHAM. June 5 Billle Menges, second baseman of tho Brigham club, has been suspended by the Peaches and steps will be taken to hao him barred from other clubs In the league Menges pullvd an eleventh-hour eleventh-hour holdout on the locals prior to tho Ogden game, wanting mors money Here is what Will Holmes In the Box Elder Journal ays about tho case: ''The writer feels personally responsible re-sponsible for Blllie Menges being in the Brigham baseball club this season sea-son and now th.nt he has shown such an unfair and unprinclpaled attitude, we would like tho world to know the kind of human being this lndi-vidu.J lndi-vidu.J has proven himself to be. "Ivogan can now .-ay with considerable consid-erable satisfaction ' Wr told you so." Menges is a good bnll player but when you say that you have stated his case in full, so far as paving him any tributes. "Brigham people hao always liked Menges and they wanted him in the lineup this year. Only those who had to deal with him in a business way knew of his peculiarities. In money matters ho is most exacting, if not unreasonable. Hero is his attitude at-titude : ELIRTED HERE. "Early in the season he flirted j with all the clubs in the, league Th Brigham elub offered him $175 perl month to play ball and loaf the rest of the tini- He turned ii down and yet hung around looking for a position. posi-tion. He stated himself that as somi as the clubs got to going good ono of them would develop a "weakness" and then that particular elub would meet "his price." The writer personally per-sonally explained to Menges tho unfairness un-fairness of such a position: that if "r ball player would adopt his attitude at-titude there would be no clubs to start. Menges then came back to Brigham and accepted the terms offered of-fered him :md all admit that he ha3 been in eery game to win. Also tho club paid him his railroad faro from California. DEMANDS MORE. Menges finally discovered that Brigham was 33o under the salary limit and decided that he "must" have more money, plus $10 he claimed claim-ed was due him last season H1g proposition was rejected and very properly so at this stage of the game at least. When he could not get what ho demanded he quit on the spot and refused to play tho Sunday game In Ogden and left the club crippled " I oo |