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Show REFUSES 10 ACCEPT CASH FROMJOfflOTj Fed Chief Rejects $6000 Sent by Pitcher as Refund Re-fund of Advance. ! j C.HhOAGO, TJec. Co. Six - thnufnnd dollars, which nobody seems tajrer to ! keep, today ttarted on a return .iour-; .iour-; nev to Coffeyviile, Kan., whence it re-! re-! ceiitly was mailed by AValtcr John-; John-; son, much sots!it baseball pibiher, to Charles H. vree-hmau, president of the i Cbi-ago Federals. ' . . ! The de'oi-ed foOOb wast originally 'paid lo Johnson to bind hts contract :to plav v.i'h tho Federal leacue, and ' its transmission to eejhma u ca me ' after Johnson bad reconsidered bii de-'termination de-'termination to play with tua bederal league and had aaain agreed to play : Witn his old teammates m the Wasn-linpton Wasn-linpton Am-i'ican b aque club. . . The roistered letter containmf; the money was retired by Yvceirbi.mn on I the advice 'of coons. d, end wul r.rob-iablv r.rob-iablv fi-'ure iu the leal procecdiux-s .which, according lo the Federal league., 'chief--, will be brought to prceent .lolni-I .lolni-I son from voioinK the conten t vbich he I sifrncd wil h them. ' Cubs May Get Groh. CI-nCAOO. Dec. -If-.S tr.cle which It v.as hoped would brlnB Helms (iron, scc- " (Continued ou Folloynng Fa,?e.) REFUSES TO ACCEPT CASH FROM J01S0N (Continued from Preceding Page) o d basernan of t e Cincinnati Nationals JLo t e Cubs n av be c osed Monday by Roger Bresnahan n anager of tho r. I cao club wow leave tomorrow n ght for the O o c ts Pres dept Char es Thomas of the Cubs sa d the Cincinnati b wanted P cher La epder and Out fie der teacl but In exchange d d not offer "much, hat we want The nan we need Is Hem e Groh but tl ey are stl 1 shy about th onl g lln into tie pot Thon as said |