Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 14 | Atlanta Owner Refuses Offer for Ball Club

I Atlanta Atlanta Owner Refuses uses Off Offer r for Ball aaU Club ATLANTA Ga April 16 AP AP AP- Denial of rumors rumors th that i George Georfe Stallings manager of the Rochester Roches Roches- ter tar International league team was wasat wasat wasat at the head of ot a group of ot New NewYork NewYork York sportsmen negotiating for the franchise of ot the Atlanta club of the Southern association was made mad last night by br R. R J. J Spiller owner Owner of th tho local team In announcing an an- flouncing l that he lie had refused their Offer eter of ot Published Publish d reports a reliable reliable reliable re liable source had it it that not only was St one of the leaders loaders of the syndicate but that the group had sele selected elected ted Ty Cobb veteran major league baseball player playe to manage mannge the th I d Atlanta tea team tean Announcement of ot the transaction it was vas said was to have b been eit made after atter th the theo o opening of of thE 1927 1927 1921 season The offer otter also took in Spillers Spiller's lithia springs property property prop prop- erty arty at Austell near here which which- tire syndicate contemplated converting con con- vetting into a fashionable ble health resort according to persistent ru ru- ru mors Spiller howe ho in confirming taht he had retus refused d the thc offer declared that neither the b baseball baseball base base- se ball club nor th the property was for lor sale and asserted emphatically that Stallings and Cobb did not figure in the thc proposed deal He I declined tp reveal the names of members rs of ot the group who made tire proposal I shall ahall continue on as owner owne of t the Atlanta team he said I refused tIne the New York offer otter without without without with with- out the slightest hesitation Tue deal is dead and so far tar as I am concerned will wUI no not be revived