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Show Ira w MAYS OUSTED Petition Being Prepared Say-' Say-' ing Baseball Is Better Without With-out Pitcher " BOSTON, Aug. 17. Players of the If "iron ana uooion iuus oi me jih-erlcan jih-erlcan league lodas prepared to draw Op a petition asking for th- banish-' ment from organised baseball oi Curl Iuye. of the New York Americans, yhose pitched ball fractured the skull "; Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop probability that the members of both Beams would refuse to play In any same In which Mays was the pitcher Svas expressed by some players. The Red Sox met yesterday when word was received of Chapman's m-Jury. m-Jury. lt v.-.is agreed. according to 'utfieldn- Ucnosky, that all would jpn a petition to President Johnson, of the league, to hae Mays ruled out of ib- game if Chapman should die, and that the players would not go to M against his pitching again. With UOWS of his death the players expressed express-ed their sorrow and then discussed the carrying out of the plan for a pi-tit ion ,' "Stuffy'" Mclnni. Red Sox first r-aseman, hurried from his seaside heme at .Manchester to call u meeting Cf i he players Members of the Boston Hub who SStsre team mates of Mays until the fitter deserted the club prior to his sale to New York last year, raid tney fell certain the Detroit players would rain In Much action as might be de-Clued. de-Clued. "Ty " obb. the Detroit star, asserted assert-ed that summary measures should be Ciken against Mays Immediately - nape, veteran catcher of the Tigers Ti-gers said the players had already dis-Sufsed dis-Sufsed action . m . Mays has been a storm center of I SS ball controversy for years, first, bei uue of his close pitching, u n ra- ,,t which players frequently com-oil com-oil Ined that tic hud tried to duet ii -m off" and later when tin .leal between be-tween ih Boston and New York clubs b) which he wis transferred after he deserted the Red Sox. precipitated n I factional fight among club owners and President Johnson, which threatened I to disrupt the league. |