| Show WHY JOHNSON JOHNSON FOUGHT FOR F 0 R RS S G. G HERRMANN American l League Head Saved When rhen Knife Knifer r Was as to Fall I Baseballs Baseball's did lid Ban big big- mystery why J Johnson save 51 Garry Herrmann's Herrmanns official off oUi- 1 C cial life UCe-ls UCe Is not such Ruch a l great mystery mys mys- t tery ory after all if it one happens to recall t tho he case caso of at George Gcorge SI ler Garry's banner still waves at tho the top o of or f tho national commission flag flag- peak peak- d due ue to the herculean efforts of oC Johnson John John- s son on Practically connected o officially with tho the National league made up hi his mind months ago to at attend at- at 1 t tend end Garry's official funeral Vcr Very enthusiastically e Garry's own associates 1 e engaged ed In picking out tho the pallbearers ers e rs the shroud anti and the tho burial plot I And Anti then Just when hen all was In readiness readiness readi readi- n ness ess for tor the guillotine Ban rushed upon U pon the tho edge of the chopping block k kicked th the supposed executioners In tho t he short ribs and thundered There aint gonna be no kuhn to toda to- to d da day ay Garr Garry shall live live dear dear old Garr Garry h ho e shall 11 live e Um Unshackle lo him hlin and let h him im loose for hes he's gonna boss the cornIsh comIsh corn corn- Ish i sh a while longer And Ban was right Although h opposed b by the National i league l eague almost in Its Us entirety and b by s some somo ome of his own men In tho the American I 1 Dan Ban B an succeeded in perpetuating a three man commission commIssion and and kept Garry In h hi his 1 1500 chairmanship Job I Why hy was Ban so nice to Garry Garn Because insists a base baIler with a a. humorous twist of et mind Garry Garr was t tho he be beet t friend the tho American league u e ever eer ver had If 11 you dont don't believe It think o of oC f tho thc case And when one ono does docs that very thing thins there here t comes the temptation to a agree ree heartily with tho the above o sentiments For lor it was the vote of Herrmann nn W which wafted the brilliant athlete from front t the he arms of oC Barne Barney Dreyfuss of oC th th I Pirates Into Inte those o of ot tho the St. St Louis Loul Browns 1 at the age of or 1 17 17 fitted himself himself him him- I gel self Into a. a baseball uniform for fOI tho ho first time a as a member of or a high school team tam in Agron O. O That was Wl In 1910 l Ho ie played high school ball through h 1910 1010 and 1911 Hill and so excellent was his performing that in 1912 1912 the Akron club a member of or tho Ohio and Penn sylvania league coaxed him into signIng sign sign- I Ing Int nir a A. contract The noble deeds of ot The attracted the attention of ot the scouts of the Columbus 0 O. team earn i In n the 1912 season became a hireling of or that outfit Staler r Tipped to 0 n Barney Barney- rn T One Ono of or the scouts who was doing chores chore for Cor Barney Dreyfuss horned his hie was in Columbus one summery afternoon afternoon after after- noon saw in action and right away used up all the tho adjectives In tho the English language in wiring a a. description tion of ot to his boss bose Buy Bur him Barney replied An And Ana so was purchased from the Columbus club on Au August 22 1912 During the winter of 1913 1912 decided that hI ho wanted tc to tJ Imbibe education education education edu edu- cation outside of that which could be gained on on tho ball field Se he hied bled himself awn to the away University of ot Michigan and refused to report to tho the Pirates in 1913 and again In 1914 Barney Bar Bar- ne ney all nIl the while keeping him on the reserve list However as the 1915 1015 season was about to make Its debut Dreyfuss got Jot to t thinking over things as aH regards The Sl an and decided that the youngster cared eared more for Cor pursuing a mercantile existence than ho did for tor professional baseball that ho he wouldn't ever adopt a basC baseball Jall career for his very own So Barne Barney excommunicated The from flom the roter and proceeded proceeded pro PlO to I forget torget about tho the matter until to his hlf consternation he learned that had been signed by hy the St. St Louis Browns an and had hall asan asan as as' asan an an American leaguer on June 28 1916 t. t Gave e a Star to St. St Louis J lies Hes mine hes rnino-hes he's hes mine shrieked Barne Barney Crooks Thieves Help Call out the police call police call out the whole police pollee department Brownies have hn taken from mo mo When the officers of the law turned a deaf deaC ear car to Barney Barney's pleadings and anti the Brownie owners merely laughed at Darn Barneys Barney's ors or's claims the Firato boss shrieked into the a 1 august presence of e the national commission consisting of or one opo Ban Johnson Johnsoh one inc John K Tener and the above mentioned connoisseur of ot saul sausages fine tine wine and misfit ballplayers ball- ball p players rs The com comish Ish pondered over the case In Its 5 solemn deliberate and terribly earnest Then Johnson ro rose e up and said It Is my b lIer that Mr 1 should be awarded to the St. St Louis I A Americans That was the natural thing thinE for tor Ban as boss of ot the American league to do I IL 1 me me myself I myself I vote vole In favor of ot awarding Mr dr Ir to the thc Pirate team which has a n lawful claim upon him ejaculated John lohn K iz Toner Tener That ma made o It 50 30 with SO with thc the fate of up p to Gari Garry Disinterested folk tolk who have ha studied the case cabe from every angle In Insist In- In that If Ir ever a dub club had a a. justifiable able claim to 0 a player it was the Pi Pirates Pirates' Pi- Pi Pirates Pirates' I rates rates' claim on r r. r But Herrmann a National leaguer I all his life supposed friend and pa pal of or Dreyfuss announced announcer J 1 vot vote to 0 Ive to to tho the St St. St St. Lou Louis fa Browne I And nd tI so it wa was that the American league as ts a whole and the tho Brownie Brownl s t IK s an Individual be bec nc me possessed o. o o one e cit M he hc greatest drawing clra Ij 1 I baseball history history history-a a a player so wonder flu ful and so brilliant that hat T Ty Cobb alone akino l ne can dim his ra radiance lan e. e 1 rut n J yo your r want ad Jn n the SU Sunda 1 Herald n for or th tho best hest results 4 |
