Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-23 | Page 8 | Johnson Refuses to Punish Fohl

JOHNSON REFUSES TO PISH FOUL Two Forfeited Ball Games Would Have Put Browns in Fourth Place. CHICAGO. ?ept. ner-njto the refusal re-fusal of the. Cleveland Hub to play t wo games scheduled at St. I-uin on 1-3 bor day. Ban Johnson, j.residonL of the American Amer-ican league, has declined to penalize the rlub by pivin the guinea to the Rrown. The ,Sl. I-oiiis club filed a forma! el.iun that the Ind.ann h.td forfeit -d the pmv-s by failing; to appwr. The ponalty under the rules $ln-o tine f"r e.ich prnif fur-felted fur-felted by a club in the A men ran league. Johnson rules that the CU-veined rlub should not be puni.-hed fur obt-ying to the letter the mandate nf i?eTetar' of War Newton I . Rker. and turns down the claim of the Brown:-. As a re-suit rf Johnson's official nj!-ing, nj!-ing, the New York Yankre.s hotd fourth place and the Browns lose out. Had they been Riven the two forfeited (fames th Browns would have finished in fourth place.