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Show NO TIPPING OF LEAGUE SIGNALS Chlcaco, July 23 Five hundred dollars dol-lars reward is offered by the American Ameri-can league for evidence tending to show that an player or club In iho league is using or countenancing the tipping of signals of a nopposing team. Any player involved will be blacklisted black-listed from organizei trieball for all time to come. This bit of in-formatUm, in-formatUm, In addition to the fact thai Jack Sheridan may become manager manag-er of umpires In tho American leaguo or given some other exalted position, was handed out by President Ran P. Johnson, on his return to Chicago from the cast yesterday. "I made a thorough investigation while in the east in regard to the 'tip--pitrg tuirerru of therN'evr YorlrTn-. " erican club." said President Johnson, "But 1 could not discover any evidence evi-dence to support the talk that waa started some time. ago. .Neither. could I llnd out that Pitcher Ed Walsh of the Chicago American league club, had ever said that he believed there was such, such "a system of signals employed. "There is no one more concerned about It than myself, and I will pay $500 to any man who produces proof that any improper slgnalfl were used. 1 he fact of the matter Is that the New York players have been batting )ust as strongly when away from home as on their own grounds, and this In its-elf should disprove the carges " |