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Show YANK BOSS INSISTS UPON 'LEGAL RIGHTS' NEW YORK. July 31.-Jacob Ruppert and T. L. Huston, owners of the Xew York American league club, exprensed indignation in-dignation today when informed that B. Ban Johnson, league president, had indefinitely in-definitely suspended Carl Mays, the pitcher New York procured yesterday from the Boston club for three players and a cash sum estimated at ?40.000. Ruppert immediately telegraphed Johnson, asking him to revoke the suspension. In his telegram tele-gram Ruppert said that, while the request re-quest was made in the friendliest spirit, "New York does not waive its legal right." He refused to explain this passage. pas-sage. Ruppert denied a report from Boston that Derrill Pratt, second baseman of the New York Americans, would be the third player to be sent to Boston in the Mays deal. |