Chalmers Race by Rick Huhn

Author:Rick Huhn [Rick Huhn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports and Recreation
ISBN: 9780803271821
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Published: 2014-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

As can be seen from the tight wording of this latest statement from Johnson, the league’s head honcho continued to perform a high-wire act, taking great pains to make it clear to one and all that he had nothing whatsoever to do with Hedges’s decision to dump his manager. More than two decades later, Jack O’Connor would talk freely about his meeting with Johnson preceding Hedges’s announcement and the manner of his dismissal, summing up his actions on the bench during the October 9 doubleheader by telling his interviewer, “I wish I had it to do over again.” As to his trip to Chicago and its aftermath,

I’ll never forget my conference with Johnson. He, of course, put the blame on me for permitting the players to be out of position, but as much as admitted to me that the evidence showed that I had not directed my men to help Lajoie. It was their own doing. So it was that I left the conference feeling pretty certain that no drastic punishment would be handed out to me. In fact, I had been led to believe that a fine or reprimand would be all there was to it.

I got on the train for St. Louis at night. Remember, I was under contract for 1911 as manager. When the train reached Springfield, Ill., the Pullman porter came to me and asked me if I had seen the morning newspaper. I told him I hadn’t. “Well,” said the porter, “there’s bad news for you. You’ve been fired.” And sure enough, there was the story of my dismissal in big type.61

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