Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-30 | Page 8 | Throws Ice Wate on Taft Project

BAN JOHNSON, American league head, who is attempting to frighten former President Taft away from haseball. M? .'4 ,vi THRffl ICE WATER ON ' TAFTPR0 JECT Ban Johnson Says , Frazee " and Hempstead Acted Without Authority. CHICAGO. Nov. 29. 'When Harry H. Frazee, president of the Boston Americans, Amer-icans, and IL N Hempstead, president of the New York club of the National league, offered William IT. Taft the post of a "one-maii" national baseball coin-mission coin-mission to replace the present body of three, they anted without proper authority. author-ity. President Ban B. Johnson of the American league declared in a statement state-ment today on his return from the east. President Johnson said, "there are no two individuals in baseball who know less of the national agreement and the rules governing the commission titan Messrs. Hempstead and Frazee." While Ihe Ame.-iran leaeue executive did not iwv.-ate that he would oppose the selection' Ion ner President Tafl , he asserted th.'V when Mr. Tat't thoroughly understands the ditties, he did not believe be-lieve he "would covet the assignment."