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Show New Owners for "Giants" Likely Before Jan. Is! NIW VOWK, Oct. 1a. Tha New York Olanta will Mkely change hands before the Oc cember baseball meetings here. It waa learned from an authoritative source. Harry N. Hempstead, president of the dub, Is known tc be esger to sell the outfit, and le at present considering a tentative offer mads him by a prominent Niw York business man. .Controlling in tt rest in the Olanta Is hsid by Mrs. John T. Brush, widow of the Ists head of the club, and by Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead, a daughter of Mrs. Brush. Minor stockholders sre compsrstlvely faw, and, It le eald. Manager John J. McOraw poasesaea about twenty aha re a. Hempstead became president of ths club upon the desth of hi fa thtr'ln.law, John T. Brush, In No v ember. 1912. While ths Olanta have been a paying propoaitlon for more than a. decade, Hempstead has several times expressed a de-sirs de-sirs te sell the stock of his wife and Mrs. Brush. il , 11 |