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Show KLING WILL NOT JOIN CUBS AGAIN Great Catcher Says He Is Anxious to Play But Not With Chicago Team. Kansas Clty.April 29 Johnny Kling is anxious to get on the baseball diamond dia-mond and act as backstop, but ho will not sign with the Chicago Cubs. "Any team but the champions and I will sign at once," said Kling. Ho wants to play ball, but under his present pres-ent conditions cannot accept with ether clubs. Any team making the proper agreement with Murphy can have him. For the past sixey days Kling has announced that it would be impossible impos-sible for him to get in the game this year, from the fact that his billiard rarlor hero requires all of his. time. It Is different now. A new manager hag been secured for the hall, and Kling feels that he would like to pick up some easy money during the summer sum-mer providing he can get it from some other than Charles W. Murphy. Ted Sullivan, a well known baseball base-ball man, has been in Kansas City for three das trying to Induce Kling to return to the Cubs. He was to have left town yesterday, but late In the afternoon came a message from Murphy asking him to await a letter which Sullivan was to show to Kling. This afternoon Kling and Sullivan read the letter over. It was a manly appeal from one man to another urging- the recalcitrant to fulfill the terms of his contract. Incidentally it stated that its author considered him one of the most brilliant players in the great American game. But neither honeyed words or the pathetic appeal to "come Lack and help us win another pennant'' had 'the desired effect. , i positively will not play with the Cubs again," was the reply given to Sullivan. "But," continued Kling, "if Murphy will trade me to some other club I will he tickled to death to get back in the game." |