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- f :.,.. . ; BAN JQHNSON'S BITTER FOEf IDE ij:i.J GAME'S - BEST- DREJ3SER Charles Webb Murphy was born in Ohio, about 40 years age?. Accused of being" of several na tionalities her 'is of Irish; parents age." He was contemporary - o Ban Johnson, as Sporting editor in Cincinnati and the personal bitterness, which has marked their baseball careers, began at that time. Until 1903 Murphy "Wrote baseball' in Cincinnati, In this capacity he met John T, Brush, owner of the Reds. When. Bnjsh acquired the. Giants he took Murv phy to N'e.w Yprk as press agent. A tip that the CJiicago Cubs were for sale reaching Him,. Murphy secured ,an option and induced Charles P. Taft to buy tlje-team. . Next year the Cubs won the 'National 'league,, pennant and fojind Murphy fncbntrbl of the club. His career,, lias ben little short of, marveloils'v " , Qf scrappy disposition, carry ing a chip on his shoulder, he has - made more enemies- than friends in baseball, but has earned a. rep fpr sagacity second to none, His rise has not been thfe smoothest climb imaginable- His chief di-. version is- fighting his arch-en-,emy, Ban Johnsonj, Murphy ha? iftuch money in vested in mother" earthy Las$ yeaj he built a young mansion oh a fashionable Chicago boulevard and instead -of riding on thepay-as-you-enters, chases around, in a limousine. Neatness is Murphy's second nature. I Short and tub.by he forces this to theJ iront, In the matter of clothes. "We'v - F ! S F MR.hOHY- StfOUlD WCA THE,. V, J hew '1912 snuffs" ve wAame He , iL. WOWtO tOOk UKE A TB.OF XSfclSfe jviy 5u.pon Ns9 qaily qofitiOMi-EfT oe darner. ,F jR Q khcw of dnly-tjne other in baseball who s'pent more far fcidthes- $ah 'does Murph. - .That mart was Harry Clay Pulljam, league pres, irfent at his death. He im ported a-bundle of glad rags from-Ws, Lunon drabereverv month and chaneed? lir- n --a er nfffl fk4 haiirnc lrrtXTrV6? uio dLiauou jjxkv n-uatJiu vycu Aaivui,r m ' . V i. "& I