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Show BLUFFS OF HEIli ID JOISON CALLED Organized Baseball Leaders No Longer Disregard Players Play-ers Who Jump. Tribune Spccfnl Sport Sen'lce. NEW YORK, May 2. rJd Ban .Tohn-8on .Tohn-8on and Garry Jlerrniann lived In the days when court- "Jesters wcro in vogue,. it's a certainty that a gang of kingly gentlemen would have battled for tho services of this Joculnr pair. But, ns it Is, they live in an ago when jesters have degenerated Into clowns, and there's no, other real place for this amusing pair to display their wares than on the tanbark of a circus arena. This pair. It may bo remembered, rose up in righteous wrath and with proper eclat and dignity some months ago, and after fixing the public with a ferocious glare shouted this: It It be understood right hero and now that any players now in organized organ-ized baseball who Jump to the Federal Fed-eral league, never, never, never can come back within the organized fold. This nppliea not only to men who may in the future break their lawful contracts and jump to the Federals, but also to men who disregard the reserve clause and go over to the Federals. Of course, we cannot stop men from Jumping, but we can stop them from ever coming back In to our ranks. And we will do so. And right now this pair of Jokors are tho ones who are in the thickest of the fight to get back Into the organized fold the players who jumped to the Feds. This pair has given lis full sanction to tho use of any necessary means to get back the faithless players. This braco of Jesters who bo loudly shrieked that all players who entered tho Federal league should forthwith abandon hope, are now shrieking just as loudly to ,tho players to "please come back and don't mind what we said last winter." As previously stated, Ban Johnson is considerable of a bluffer perhaps one of the very best that ever homed his way into baseball. He's tiled bluff and bluster blus-ter ever since the Feds got under wnv in an effort to scare them out. And when ho and Gurry murmured that "no.plavor can come back," It wus just another bluff. The players called It, and now Ban and his jesting colleague, in the eyes of the baseball world, look even more foolish than than docs the man with a four flush who tried to scare out a gentleman who was in possession of four kings and one ace. |