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Show DUNN ANSWERS BAN JOHNSON Cleveland Owner Says A. L. President Called Him Big "Dummy" Owner .in Dunn, of the C'evelsnd Vniericati league leant i.- hostile. He has starfd out lr refute th. Inli- ! nbatlont comlijj? from the office of Preeidehi Heydler, of lUe National league, thai h '9 'Tll :' tis.'re head! and a dummy" fo; President l;.n Johnson', bunn, has declared him-' self ruilr i- sirpiuioiis . r,nd aeveral days ;'g. promised to throve to the latiBfacYfon. of ;.M baseball fahdoh) that he Is a real magnaie. "I am slcfc and tired of 5eing the goat on t argyments between a- j tional ierfgtM inirrevr) and Mr John , inh;" said tl;'1 Cleveland owner "l j 6wn t'.c cptitroUIng Intersil rn thf Cleveland club ami I intend to ''-H it few oi i L-s- Hiicnal h-ague lei ims what 1 think of their peanul r o it irnl I . I-ernes. "I am riow arrdj alwayi have leef;; frjendly wi.h Mr- Johnson I can1 , not seo where thai giyfs the Na tional leagysrs gnd ths pocalcitranl American owners ;in excuse to gt ill ine on every occasion. Now the are peeved because I did poi oup-pori oup-pori :ht; Lasker plan for reorganization, reorganiza-tion, bn1 uhffi tlioy arc In meeting i will tell ih. m why 1 consider u a pik r dan and totally inadequate lo , solve tjie problems before baseball today. Ah owner of the Cleveland team I do not leel that I must wait for ome disinterested outside parl to tell me whether ray player- are doing do-ing the right thuig I watch my i fain (he same as 1 watch any other busiuefls proposition in which I am intere.-led. and when ihinr are noi i;oinB right 1 will clean my own house" Dunn is particularly sore at own ers Frasee and Ruppen. He say.s the eastern. pair think the have a license to abuse everybody who dos not think as thej think, but lh are going to he foblsd when the time for a showdown comes Dunn has always been a good listener at league nuei-in's nuei-in's in tin past, bul be IS expected to hac quite a bit to say at the next meeting, Dunn is lined up with , JohriKon gain.-t 'b l.nsker plan and he says that is just where he will remain I ani pefCectlj wiiiins to CO-operate In any movement that will 1 benefit ami safeguard baseball." said Dunn hui I am also going to pro-1 pro-1 Led nr. own interests at all costs." I Connie Mak describes Dunn as a , cool and hard headed successful - business man f . no |