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Show Rough and Ready Tactics of Fed Magnate Arouses Anger An-ger of Veteran Outfield. Head for the first time the truth why Sam Crawford, the slugging outfield out-field veteran of tho Detroit Tigers, refused to jump to the Feds when they tackled him upon the arrival of the world touring teams in New York last month. When the big liner docked, several Fed leaders wore waiting at the gangplank gang-plank to buttonhole the unsigned big leaguers as they came off the ship. A Fed manager singled out Crawford in the throng and set out to reach his ear. Between him and Crawford several women were standing. The Fed magnate did not wait for a chance to walk around them, nor did he ask them to let him walk through to see Crawford. No, as soon as he spied j Crawford, he plunged into the midst of the little group of women rootball fashion, and with a sort of breast-stroke breast-stroke swimming movement of his arms, swept them aside and sidled up to Crawford to whisper something In his ear. Act Arouses Anger. But Crawford had seen the act oul of the corner of his eye. "Don't you talk to me, you rowdy bum!" he exclaimed as he shoved his big right hand In the Fed's mid-section and jammed him with a bang up against the Iron railing. Only the fact thai so many people were present, including includ-ing Crawford's wife, prevented him from showing the objectionable individual indi-vidual in more forcible manner what he thought of a man that would use rough and ready tactics of that. sort. The Fed later managed to say a few words to Crawford about his Federal Fed-eral league proposition, and other Federal Fed-eral leaguers also spoke to him. But the die was cast, Whatever Crawford Craw-ford might have done, otherwise, his mind was made up that he did not want any Federal league business just as soon as he saw the Federals un-gallantry un-gallantry so palpably exhibited. |