Show I I ROWLAND ROLAND REFUSES TO BECOME GOME WRITER By ily United Press I NEW TORK YORK Oct 16 Clarence l Clarence Rowland Rowland Row flow land the bush leaguer the man who has I enjoyed the laughs of ot 1 his ls contemporaries I and who has laughed laughe last and heartily set an example Just before the last worlds world's series that should be bo food for tor the I thoughts of ot his hili rivals He needed money moneymore pore more than did John J. J McGraw He lie needed It Just as much as Eddie Collins ns I or Christy Mathewson bu but but this product of ot Iowa small ISmail towns a minor leaguer turned down a fat tat offer from a syndicate syndi syndi- i cate rate that wanted him to write his worlds world's series views view Like Ban Johnson president of the American league Rowland believes not In the an l 1 swindle that offers to the public sto st r under signatures of ot the games game's great stars He lie knew then and knows now that not one player with the single exception of ot Eddie Collins writes tho the credited to him and it Is extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex I doubtful If It Collins found time during the last big games to really write a decent cent account of the contests I Johnson has pla placed ed a ban on Loae stories The Tho national commission hl has haa I frowned on the practice yet jet et no one I seems seem able to stop It Eddie Collins signed a contract this year In the face of JohnI Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's John John- I sons son's and the commissions commission's orders Czar CzarI I that he Is Johnson Is finding trouble controlling controlling con con- trolling this feature of or baseball Christy Mathewson Is the most cOnof consistent con cOn- of those writers Matty is capa- capa ole DIe of ot writing his own stuff sturt and does pound out some of ot it ft but his duties as manager of ot the Reds has prevented his devotion of much time to the labor The stories though are still running but their popularity has ceased Rowland Is rapidly taking rank with I the greatest leaders in basil baseball ball He Is reaching the popularity enjoyed by bv John I McGraw In his handling of ot temperamental ball players player Rowland has some strange mannered players on his payroll temperamental tem tem- as they grow but he has been sliding along with them without any trouble He lie doesn't make a lot of ot noise about It He doesn't shout around nor tear his hair hall but he gets results He isone is isone I Ione one of the most mot popular men in baseball among newspaper men for tor he meets them theta the right way He lie travels in the same coach with them He lie does his fanning with them There is II no attempt to conceal conceal conceal con con- ceal or evade He answers questions the best he can can and and trusts the- the themen men to re reSpect respect respect re- re confidences he places with them |