| Show NEW SLOGANS YEAR Band Together Against Selling Players To McGraw Outfit I IBy By GEORGE ChADWICK p Special Correspondent ot of The l I Copyright 1923 1523 IS 2 3 by The Stand- Stand ard t I NEW YORK Dec Dec Dec- Dont I 1 sell any players to the Giants Glants That Is the slogan of ot a Il faction of tho National league that Is 1 said to be growing stronger all the time and nd It Is understood that there lice been a sharp cleavage over the qu question of strengthening the I New York club Tho The leaders of this faction are II H Ebbets of ot Brooklyn and Birney Dreyfuss Drayfuss of Theio two men inca are arc the tho veterans or of orth th the organization and they are re- re re referred to affectionately by one of the other club owners o as the old guard Thele Theis is ts nothing new In the statement that they are opposed to the Giants any stronger tny are arc by selling players to tc them But they are said to be beJ J more club cub 0 owners ners to their than h n they have eVer had bod be be- be tor be-tor- tor for for- forIt It has been the old guard v has bas been Instrumental and fo emo t In pushing all alt legislation that tended to put a check on the richer clubs and everybody knows that the target In more recent bars has been thet ew York club hielm has hag not had bad I fr clubs In Its own league or cities in lie its own league If It It could get abat hat it wanted tor for Itself GO T THE LIMIT I That policy Is permissible In so there f nothing n un- un unfair unfair Tin fair fair in It In a way ay The New NewYork NewYork York club simply goes the limit ot of the law to get what they want Hence the ceaseless attempts to tomake tomake make malte the laws tighter all alt the time Ume Last spring owners of the Na- Na National National Na National league leacue were outspoken In of deals which had had teen een made It was not affirmed that there was anything thing lib about out the by which chich could he be prevented But It was affirmed that the gen gen- oral gen peat Iral good of ot the league had not been heen considered We are It say the Giants In substance Little LillIe by little mental oppositIon opposition opposition tion on the part of the league to the efforts of the Giants to win pennants has Intensified until now certain men are quoted a us eq openly that no club chub in the Na- Na NaI Na National I league e should sell ECU to-n to t the ih Giants Th The Tha doctrine or of I club rights which seems to be one of th the stepping toes of the GIants owners Is that of the old lays days the little fellow tellow demanded that he get net consideration for the good tood of ot the game mn IN TITLE Had nad there been no transfers of players to the New York club by clubs of Its own organization 1919 1019 It t Is quite po possible that the GIantS might not have havo won so many championships That brIngs the point that th the subject back to there cannot be buyers unless there are sellers Illers I his condition Is to the league It does not exist in the American league There have been heen transfers of players In inthe Inthe Ute the American league which were by other clubs In that oT organization and there were ere trans trans- transfers fern fers of o players which led lod to a tL lot lotof lotof lotof of fuss In the American league IM-gue but there Is not a faction In the Amer Amer- ica i iea Ica league that would check chech New NewYork NewYork- NewYork York unless sou OU can call seven clubs A t faction for tor there are sev- sev seven seven sev seven en teams now plotting to lick the theY inks In 1924 while there them are I three or four tour in the National league doing their best to see that the Giants aro are unable to recruit strength to patch up for tor forthe the coming season seMon I EXPECT It Tt Hornsby should go eo to New NewYork NewYork York from St Pt X ouis there thero would be a 5 owl vI from St Louis to the ocean In St Louts Louis It would be ba the shrieks of the maddened fans Fans have shrieked before In the second dh Islon cities of the Na- Na National Na National lionel league It would be the sneer sneer- In Ime jibe of the fellows who say W Well ll they are at It again But If tha that t should occur St Louis Louts sill III hAve done only what Boston did what Philadelphia did what St StLouis Louis did b before tore It let Sallee Bailee and der go o to New York what Cleeland as a National league clUb did In years gone by what Brook Brook- Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn did when Dahl Dahlen n went to tIme the Giants from across the river what CincInnati almost did with Roush whit what Chicago did when ZImmer- ZImmer ZImmerman Zimmerman man Zimmer-man man got away to New York but what Pittsburgh neter neer ne er did And Ana Andrit Is one of e the tho AnaI old ola I guard ft |
