Show Many Secrets of Late John Jolin McGraw Destined to Always Remain Untold By JIMMY POWERS Editor note not This li Is the fifth and last of 01 a series serles providing exclusive sive Insights into the various varian facts of 01 John Job J J. J McGraws McGraw's character gleaned from hU hll erstwhile and nd friends MIAMI Fin Fla March 1 Mc Mc McGraw Graw the mystery man that's man that s the title the newspaper clipping bureau borroW wont won't w nt bear out because in the course of 40 y years th the old Orioles Oriole's name has haa appeared than that of any other ather public figure He has a bigger r bulk of ot cuttings than Lindbergh Coolidge Hoover or Roosevelt Hardly a day passed winter winter win win- ter or summer sOMmer but what his name society or citywide citywide city city- appeared p ared In lii the sports wide columns column in America In Cuba London or Japan Sports Sport editors editors' In small towns and und large wrote about him and his world tours toura made him thousands of contacts Had Many lany Secrets Yet McGraw carried to io the grave grove ce certain secrets that perhaps will willI I never be bo revealed Wh Why was waa Rogers Hornsby Hornsb one of the greatest t second b basemen meno o of all aU tim times s suddenly traded I to the B Boston ston Braves W Why was wai Burleigh I Grimes star fired What was v the truth of the Cozy Dolan scandal Was Jimmy OConnell O'Connell a Ji victim of n a premature ex exposure Why did McGraw for tor tory y years g go on scouting trips when n the Giants GIant played plad Chicago Why did h he quickly switch training camps out ut of ol Florida There Ther has been conflicting versions of the above but only McGraw knew the th complete answers Curious Curio cor correspondents correspondents cor cor- cor r respondents have built up logical explanations ex cx- only to d discover cov r later tater th they Y wrong McGraw was a a. great gambler It Itis Itis L is estimated e ted he won wan and nd lost on tho ponies S quietly He Ho had more money riding on a horse th than n a millionaire sitting silting next to hImin him himin himm in m th the Clubhouse It U is believed d he was forced to borrow to make good hU his track losses 55 Loses Real R al Estate The colla collapse e of his re reel real l estate at Sarasota took another r whack thack at his b bank roll and even his yearly salary was not enough to save Siv hIS Giant stock At the trial In New tw two winters rs ago go when Francis F FrancisX X XI X McQuade sued the National Exhibition Exhibition Ex Ex- Ex company for back sal sal- ary It w was s revealed that McGraw owned but an infinitesimal fraction n of the shares Thi lo lost loss of st stock ck indirectly brought about his downfall Pr President Preal- Preal i. i dent Charles Stoneham wes was in power and the clashes between en McGraw on onOle one Ol side aide and President Stoneham and andr Secretary r t ty Y on the tM other ar arc bellev believed d to have b been n behind the Hornsby and ond Grimes m mysteries Carey Pays te teIn teIn In fact many baseball critics d date te McGraWs McGraW's downfall to the trading of oi Hor Hornsby Hornsb bY From that time on the old aId Orioles Oriole's power wan waned d. d McGraw would not complain G Gallantly he congratulated te his successors UCc or He H blew no whistles named no names and this sportsmanship further en en- dedred him to thO those who know kno whet what is going on OD behind the Office partitions parti parti- of the turbulent Giant head head- quarters He Ue had b been en openly In sympathy with OConnell O'Connell Hornsby and md Grimes He had praised T Terry rry to the skies Ma Max said Id to the In fact tact 3 as Corey writer You can write this for lor his epitaph Here lies s John Sohn McGraw a good player a good Man manager er arid and most of all nU a good sport |