Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — SAM CRAWFORD DISLIKES ROWDY TACTICS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAM CRAWFORD DISLIKES ROWDY TACTICS

ReWfi for the first time the truth about why Sam Crawford, the slugging outfield veteran of the Detroit Tigers, refused to jump to the Feds when they tackled him upon the arrival of the world touring teams in New York. When the big liner docked, several Fed leaders were waiting at the gangplank to buttonhole the unsigned big leaguers as they came off the ship. A Fed manager singled out Crawford In the throng and set out to reach his ear. Between him and Crawford several women were standing. The Fed magnate did not wait for a chance to walk around them, nor did he ask them to let him walk through to see Crawford. No, as soon as he spied Crawford, he plunged into the midst of the little group of women, football fashion, and with a sort of breast-stroke swimming movement of his arms, swept them aside and sidled up to Crawford to whisper something

in his ear. But Crawford had seen the act out of the corner of his eye. “Don’t you talk to me, you rowdy bum!” he exclaimed as he shoved his big right hand in the Fed’s mid-section and jammed him with a bang up against the iron railing. Only the fact that so many people were present,. including Crawford’s wife, prevented him from showing the objectionable individual in more forcible manner what he thought of a man that would use rough and ready tactics of that sort The Fed later managed to say a few words to Crawford about his Federal league proposition, and other Federal leaguers also spoke to him. But the die was cast Whatever Crawford might have done, otherwise, his mind was made up that he didn’t want any Federal league business just as soon as he saw the Federal's ungajlantry exhibited In such a striking manner.

Sam Crawford, Hard-Hitting Tiger.