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Show i 1 PIMR CARL MAYS Is LEAGUE STORM CENTER .GETS PEEVED AND THROWS BALL0VR THE GRANDSTAND1 5 "'F' y X IH Hote or- V JV hvo mok wevrt; To 4$$ Carl Maya cohtlnues to be tho storm-center storm-center of tho American leagUS His latest escapado Involves the throwing of the hall over the grandstand grand-stand in an exhibition game in tho south, Peeved, because Manager flugglns saw fit to remove him from tho box, bocauHi- 1 1n- Brooklyn rlub was hitting hit-ting ins offerings all over the field. Mays a la kid fashion threw thr- ball over the grandstand, Fortunately. major league clubs1 have plenty of baseballs in stock, so' the action -'f Mays did not break up the ball game as he probably hoped' it would. Manager Hoggins, in order to main-! tain discipline, fined Maya 520o fori hi- ohild-llke tactics. Whereupon Mays threatened to quit' the r.-um Sonic ot his teammates prevailed pre-vailed upon him not to do so. Now h says he will stay with th club until the first pay day. and if the $1'00 is missing from his heck h is through. For a number of years Mays has kept the American leaguo in constant turmoil. 1 Un July 15. 1SIU, Mays quit the lios-ton lios-ton club in tho middle of a game at Chicago. Disgusted with the way the club was going Mays said he was through with baseball unless sold to a club up in the race. He wa.s lat. r sold to tho New Vork club. President Johnson then suspended sus-pended hiin. Tho New York club took the case to court and got a permanent perman-ent injunction restraining President Johnson from interfering with Hie pitching 01 'Mays for tho New York club. It was a long drawn out court affair that split the American league Into factions. Five clubs remained loyal 0 Pri Ident Johnson This prevented New York, Chicago and Boston from .oi-ting him from the presidency, as , was t heir intent. Maya later was unfortunate enough , to kill Ray Chapman of tho Cleveland club with 1 pitched ball It was al-eged, al-eged, by the players, that Mays was In the habit of throwing the 'bean bal." At one time It loked as M all the American league clubs would go on strike over the incident. Those are Just a few of the high m . score , f affairs In which 1 has played the central figure. Tin Mays case in turning out to be nplete vindication for the attitude '..k. n l.y I'i osldent Johnson, who ruled Mays should play with Boston or stand suspended when he jumped that team The New York club, who h went the limu In Mays' behalf, is reeling th lungs of retribution |