Show JOHNSON I AFTER FOXY GRIFFITHS Ban Threatens to Bring Disturber to t Time I HERMANN I IS APPEALED TO r ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT MINOR ASSOCIATION MAY MAV FAIL Chicago April President Johnson of ot the American league has lias taken official cial cia cognizance I of Attorney Howard Griffith Griffiths attempt to t get the minor I leagues s to break away awa from tilE the na Ha agreement Mr Johnsons atten attan tion tiun has been called to Mr Griffith missionary Work in hI ii the south ostensibly o in Iii behalf of the th National association ot or Minor Leagues The rue Jersey Jerl y City man num in hi interviews and und conferences s with south era ern rn league magnates s asserted that It 11 i was wa s the th purpose of the tha National asso asno aS Q to make mak war ar on eta the th American Am el u because b ause the th latter refused rt ed to ac accept H accept I pt the lie th drafting rules indorsed bv by the National league I President nt Johnson 1 II 60 tt as a s om on o rn ah as proofs of Griffiths doings in the south and Imd eat reached rached him wrote to Chairman Herrmann of or the national committee t proposing that Griffiths be b railed called t to ac at account account count for his alleged efforts to disrupt the organization of which all leagues Jt agues aru a it party part There has been 1001 consider considerable r able correspondence on the subject be between b tween Herrmann and amid Johnson but no I final action has been heen taken In lit his letter to Herrmann Johnson I made mad it plain that the American league k ague would under no mao circumstances permit Attorney y Griffiths to carry arry on open o n or secret warfare against the American league loo ue The head of the American league regards gards r Griffiths work as treachery ery ry to organized baseball and called at attention attention to an tn interview with the attorney where the latter had stated that he had John T Bruh Breh and Barney Barnev Drey Dreyfuss fuss back of him in his effort to riddle riddie the American league The Cincinnati tl magnate In his answer said he did not think that Griffiths cam campaign campaign tb the American league war warranted warranted warranted ranted any an action but to this President Johnson replied that he lie considered d the welfare of the game demanded the ex expulsion expulsion of Griffiths from the National association Final action in the matter may bo be taken in si a L few w days da so 1 |