Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-08 | Page 42 | Fogel's [Illegible] Was No [Illegible]

FOKlSl WASilfl Suffered Penalty of Unfounded Charges AjK' the National Spoj Tho disbarment of Horace,-4W further participation In NiiioMp councils a.n an officer forfivjrK seen uomo time ago and iffcBM theso columns long beforo 'uKfe" took action. Ho Buffered the.rjHfc making charges against the rmMP has given him his living- for oKl! and then being utterly unalBf stantlatc them when placed qjBi'1 trial. Tho constant. losses fitif?Ei? ball club or rather the clublR he was the nominal head v&Qm'll disappointment to him and HHt bitter that he could not 8t3iB$T real troublo was, and attackagBjl) clals of tho league. Instead otKpl from tho other direction. Hp) Tho penalty had to bo inntdgKff President Lynch said at the tK' trial last week. Horace was gwE& against than sinning. It 'trat'jiRtrt lustration of the fact that a bfcHfi proposition cannot exist long-oiBpa flush. When the Phjladelphl-Bjy( purchased from it's resident' nK outside Interests throa yearriuM Fogel placed at the head of It, oflB! of tho assistance which he hailMr the owners In pulling off thfjB; troublo becan. If tho u tnEi tho ownership of the club haiiaHP-. at that linn- a great deal otruVj.1 would have been avoided. It was folly for Fogel to.MMKLii owner of a club which cost flnJKo everyone knew that he xva; aririH reporter, without any great 'ujBr caplt.il of his own. N'otnlar'vKT. mrl a great deal of scandal inFHRL up by the failure to tell thirtR1 about the situation. Th? actWlB preferred to remain under antt;!KF', to avoid, If thev could, charRM.PI cato ball, and Horace, proua 'oMHm i lion, was allowed to pose U'tK'1! of the club. An untenable sltoflVV thus created, Tho other National league. 'IBitl wcro to blame for the culmlnatfKiyl matter. Though they were,s?B7 real ownership of tho club ftonW. they permitted the sltuaUoa'tfMpBi until it led to an inevitable "rtB the American league the vcoserNK been handled far differently uHlf the crosslp and scandal attend(aM,M of Fogel last week. Tht HHhC'l) reputable newspaper men fc showed that Fogel had bsyW"? Charley Murphy to make attaqHbtH game which Murphy did not;Haii to make himself. Jifct. Th sporting editor of the CWKJ affirmed that he had prl&t-HNU signed by Fogol and later Ql'PHni this article had been SBiS, or at his dictation. The. niMJr fulsome boost of Murphy fjlBPv his alleged meteoric rise In fulsome terms. Later th 8BZl4 published another and jn)rB ? article from Fogd's pen, wwajBfcfo mitted havlmr written, tuBtoi referred to Murphv for SW&xKZ belnc handed out for publlMUJMJrl Fogel did not send either of nHtyki nlcs to the Chicago Post jjBJfctit vere turned over br MilWiiTEx quest for publication- It wJJBF granted that Fogol, on ,f28Bf ' business relationship to nrflBjuiif , "Kred himself under obllcauoM-pVt' for these articles, though JKtW Indirectly responsible for p.?fHwie the Attack on the honesty of W?Br-j. league race and Its oWdai in the second article, pot WFjiE l trouble. Murnhy bravely 'iVJBNitt under and allowed Horace 10 'vHg 'aa, punishment. ,,J5B?T It v.-as n pltlfid storj- that M evidoncc at tho recent taJfMU But the Ienguo hafl learned Itn affairs have been cleansed WJBS' extent Fogol. more PvSIK.1-anything PvSIK.1-anything else, is out of tho 'WgfHF'wt While Murphy will never be,.aJaJMLiZ mand any Influence or ltau'PBC? loapue again. Tliesn aro coming out of u bud. zml 4 the weakness of tho club ?Wfcru lowed tho league to Ml SIEi' ' lesson which will rovlse ,eKr,$ league, which will stand a 9TJMRW Improvement. K'Mj fc3&