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Show Itm BARES DOUGLAS' 'Shufflm' Phil Believed McGraw Couldn't Win Without Him 'III C,( . Aug If" -Phil l'ouglas .si;ir piLcner oi tne .m-.v otk tiianLs, I believed that if he stayed on the teem 'and pitched, the Giants would win !the 1922 p'-rinant. and that If he left the team, New York could not win ithe flag, according to a letter wrote 'to an unnamed player of the National league, and which Was made public by W M LandlS, commissioner of baseball. Douglas who was placed on the permam nt Ineligible list by the Giants after the player to whom he wrote iahd asked for "Inducements" to leae, turned the l tt r o r to his manager, revealed that he had no liking for .Manager John McGraw of the Giants and Ills assurance that McGraw rould not win without him. Commissioner Landis made no comment on the letter and refused to divulge the name of the player to whom Douglas wrote. The letter follows. I l A T OF LETTER New York, Aug. 7. 1922. "To Dear "1 want ! leaVe here, but I want some Indw ment. I don't want this gui to win the pennant, and I feel If I stay here I will win It for him You know I can pitch and win. So you see the fellows, and if you want to. send a man oxer here with the! goods and I will leae for home on; the next train. S.-nd him to my house j so nobodv will know and send him at Dlgrht. I am IIMng at 1 L". Wadsworth ; av nue apartment 1-R. Nobody will ever know. I will go down to fishing camp and stay there I am asking yotl th'.s way so there can't be any trouble to anyone. Call me up if you i are sending a man. Wadsworth 321". and If 1 urn not there Just tell Mis Douglas Do this rigiit away. Let me know. Kepurds to all." PHIL DOUGLAS." Judge Landis said he believed Mrs Douglas was not Involved in Douglas" , plan, although she Is mentioned in the i letter. WKOTK LLSLIi: MANN NEW YORK. Aug. 1 "Bhuff-llln" "Bhuff-llln" Phil Douglas, pitcher barred from organized baseball beeause of a letter he wrote, offering to "throw down" the Giants, was sent to I-slle Mann St. Louis Cardinal outfielder. Douglas said that following the last game, he pitched on July 31. he went, to th apartment of a friend and 'gor drunk and went to sleep " He added that detectives dragged him from the apartment and took him to .-i Banitar-; Banitar-; , R'here lv as hi Id until Augui I 5. t'pon his release, he said, he belle, be-lle, ej M flraw, manager of the Giants 'had suspended him and he wrote to Mann who was in Boston with the Cardinals, the litter offering to go to la fishing camp' if this was desired be-he be-he was nfrald that if he stayed I with (he Giants he "would win the pennant Tor him " meaning McGraw V A KILT) EXCISES After writing the letter, the pitcher pitch-er said he was called to the Polo 'grounds -by McGrnv. 'When I left I I knew I had not been discharged." j Douglas said Following the visit to i ! McGraw s office. Douglas said he call- I ed Mann on the long distance tele-j ;pnone-anu rrqucsied mm io tear the b iter Although Mann agreed to U. this, the pltehcr added he showed the Utter to his manager. Branch Rickey, who In turn Informed' Mc-Qraw Mc-Qraw Commissioner Landis and John LHeydler, president of tho National league The former Giant star declared that I he was drunk that h had been gl -en hypodermics and that he was not himself when he wrote to Mann. He realised this he said, too late. The same day that he requested Mann to destroy the Utter. Douglas said. Dr. Bender the Gi.nnt-s' club physician called call-ed at his apartment, and gave him hypodermics to quiet his nerve6. and that he ri pealed these ministrations for two days. In Pittsburg. Douglas was summoned, summon-ed, according to his story. to Mc-Graw's Mc-Graw's room. There he was questioned ques-tioned by Judge Landis. who finally told McGraw that ho couldn't use Douglas a nv more. SORE AT MGRAW While ho was in the sanitarium, Douglas said, McGraw fined him $100 unci five day's pay and then he was glvon a bill for taxlcab fare and treatment treat-ment In thu sanitarium The latter amounted to $2J4. "I was broke," the ldg pitcher said, "I thought McGrar had fired me, I haven't Km any way of making a living liv-ing except In baseball, aod I was Hr on McGraw, I hud to do something for a. living, ao I wrote to Mann " "I'm not sore at Mann becauoe ho 1 zr I I turned the letter over to Rickey. It j was all my fault. T ju:;t didn't realize what I waa doling. do-ling. ' .MANN DENIES ALL ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 Leslie Mann, 'outfielder for the St Louis Cardinals early this morning flatly denied that hi had received the letter from Phil Douglas. New York Giant pitcher, offering of-fering to "throw down" the Giants, which resulted in the New York mau-jagemont mau-jagemont hairing Douglas from oran-j oran-j Ized baseball, Mann also denied he held telephone conversation with Dougias. regarding tho letter as relat-r relat-r '1 li I 'nuglas. Mann said he was surprised that lhe former New York flayer had made the statement that the correspondence corre-spondence and telephone conversation tollowlnp It were with himself The Cardinal outfielder also expressed surprise sur-prise thr.t Douglas had been guilty ol the act for which he was suspended Branch Rickey, managpr of the St Ixiuls Cardinals said he had ' nothing whatever to say In regard to 11111 LouglaH, who was barred from organized organ-ized baseball, because of a letter he wrote, offering to desert the N.w York Giants, declaring the letter was sent to Leslie Mann, outfielder for trie St, Louis Nationals. Manager Rickey refused to talk about any angle of thn case. |