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Show I llKER MS NOT FIRED BY CLUB Attache Disgorges Some Inside Facts Lot of Opinions Upset. HERRMAN NOT OWNER Fleischmann Brothers Now Full Owners of Cincinnati Baseball Club. I (By Monty.) New York, Dec. 20 The Cincinnati club of tho National League Is not owned by August Herrmann, other Tise known as Garry, and Joe Tinker was not fired from the managerial )oh by Herrmann. The Inside history of the RcAs during the last fiSW months ha been learned from one of the trusted attaches of tho club who afended the annual mating of the National league In New York last week, and somp of the fact? he disgorges dis-gorges will upset a lot of opinions held by Cincinnati fans. The present owners of the Reds are Julius Fleischmann and his brother bro-ther Max Julius is former Mayor of Cincinnati. They had been in'- ; eated financially in the Reds for spv-oral spv-oral years past, but the deal by which they obtained absolute control of t li o club was not put through until the last few weeks of the past season Herrmann, who still is president of the club, wiil remain In that office of-fice as long as he wishes unless he retuees to do the bidding of his bosses. bos-ses. He now let only a figure head, being retained in the position of president pres-ident largely because of his prom-'r.ent prom-'r.ent reputation in baseball affairs and his long service rendered to org j snlzed ball as chairman of the Nl ; ; ionsl Commission a Job he has held ,bo long that It would bo hard to think of anybody else holding it. As soon as the Fleiechmanns obtained ob-tained the full control of the club last summer. Mux Fleischmann insisted in-sisted that Harry Stephens, a friend of his and associate In certain affairs af-fairs in Cincinnati be mado secretary secre-tary of the club, a position that be, Max, once held. StepliPUH not only was secretary' in the usual sense of the term as applied to a baseball club, but he was Instructed to act as a sleuth or "spotter." a job that nev er existed on any other big league Hub. Stephpns was ordered to gum shoe around and keep his ear-; open for gossip and to report everything he saw or heard to the Flelrehmann's. When Joe Tinker finally learned of this through friends who had been tipped off about it, hp waxpd hot under the collar but said nothing in particular. In the last weeks of the season, a IDlwij uuic uui ui lUGIUJlnU imjm d rupture between Tinker and tho i Reds' business management whicn ! j 5 caused the prediction that he was to be let out. Tbe details of that trouble hae not been told yet The raizup was caused by Brother Max Fleischmann "bawllhg out" Tinker at Rcdland Park one day because Tink er made come managerial move in the game that did not suit Max's ideas of how baseball should be played. play-ed. Tinker told Max to "go to. etc." not knowing that Max was one of his secret bosses. Fleischmann was Incensed In-censed and swore to himself that he would "get Tinker." And. as every fan knows now, he "got Tinker " It was Max's ire entirely that caused tho dismissal of the manager. The new owners of the Reds are a q-ieor pair, Max Fleischmann Is a basehali "fiend" and thinks he knows as much about baseball as any man alive, In addition to believing that he has uncanny ability to size up a baseball base-ball situation and apply the remedy For several years past he has gone F.ast during midsummer to run a I baseball club In the Adirondack mountains In New York State He lines up a bunch of professional players play-ers under assumed names and turns them loose against the semi-professional or amateur nines of the other hotels of rivals, who are outclassed. Then Max smiles around accepting "modestly" the compliments of those i7ho declare him a wonderful manager. man-ager. Julius Fleischmann Is a "sport" of the dyed-in-the-wool variety, and particularly par-ticularly a race horso sport. During the good old days of the fame in New York he and Frank Farrell, now owner of the New York American League baseball club, were partners In the ownership of several first class thoroughbreds, and most famous of which was Blues, by Sir Dlxonout of Bonnie Blue tt Speaking of the Fleischmann's and racing recalls the notoriety acquired by William R. Fleischmann, a cousin of tbe brothers, at the Saratoga track in 1S06, when he "an out" on tho book makers for $4,000, finally sett ling, with the aid of his relatives, at a rate of 25 cents on tbe dollar The Cincinnati club has had a rocky history. It was a charter member mem-ber of the National League in 187G, titb J, L. Keck as its president. He served two vearc and was succpoded by .'. M W. Neff. who was president in 1S78 and 1879. when Justus Thorn-6r Thorn-6r became the head of the club On October 6 of this year. 1880. the club was expelled from tho League for failure to observe the rules, agreements agree-ments and requirements of the league. During tho ensuing decade Cincinnati Cincin-nati was without National League ball. But In 1S90 a now Cincinnati club was organized with A S. Stern as Its president, and elected to mpm-bership mpm-bership in the league. Thp following year John T. Brush of Indianapolis was madp president, serving for twelve years, ending In 1902. when ho became president of the New York Giants, which position he occupied at time of his death last year. When Brush left Cincinnati August Herr-manD, Herr-manD, the present figurehead, was made pro idenl of the club, serving from 1903 to the present time. |