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Show MAIER NOT TO GO BACK TO VERNON LOS ANGELES, May 23. Edward it. Malor, former owner of the Vernon club, Issued an emphatic denial of the report that ho was again to become interested In the team. Reports have been floating around that the Tigers have not been a financial success this year and that the franchise might bo turned back to .Mater. "The story regarding my again becoming be-coming interested In tho Vernon olub Is absolutely untrue," said Maier. "I am through with tho game for once and for all, as I said when I quit Even though I had any such ridiculous Idea it would be absolutely impossiblo for me to return to baseball, as I havo I sold the club to Mr. Dannody. I do 1 not now, or never will, think of re- turning to baseball as a club owner." J1 league. His idea of spending a vacation vaca-tion is painting a two-story house. Johnson, on a recent visit to the Dover Hall club, of Dover Hall, Ga found one of the buildings in need of paint Instead of hiring tho work done, Johnson donned overalls and with the aid of an aged negro, undertook under-took tho job himself. The task required requir-ed six days of back-stretching toil "Where did I leam to paint?" 'the American league boss queried. "When ! I was a boy in Cincinnati, that was my ; regular Job." C Johnson is a member of tho Dovor ft Hall club which was founded by Cap- g tain Huston, one of the owners of the I New York Americans The club I grounds cover 2,500 acres " ""' 11 |