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QRMER OWNER IF STARS PUTS EAM IN LOOPlew Owner Dickers For Satchell and StearnesBULLETINv1, ■) ■—, Tenny Blount announced ’hjTburaday that he would not . %e able to take the Detroit Vaseball franchise. He said lie would make a statement vfext week.By Rustell J. Cowan*John Tenny Rlount is coming |k‘k into the national pastime!I The former owner of the Dc-^oit Stars, who stalked out of liseball in 1924 after a disagree-ent with the Late Andrew ‘Rube’ ster, then pro dent if the Ne-. National League, derided to -enter the national pastime folding an all-night conference _ the Russell House Monday ^w^JlghL with Qua Cl I eeiu 1g redent of the National Negro As--%lt;‘ation, Cum Posey, owner ofie Homestead Grays, and John oes-ink, owner of the Ham-SMkamck stadium.The urge to hear the roar of „je crowds, coupled writh the persistency of Greenlee and Posey, ■caused the man who gavo Detroit its fir.st baseball team back in 1919, to capitulate and cast his lot writh the other owners in the newly formed league.Surprise To Mogul*The announcement by Blount t$Mkt h« would place a team in the leaiguo came as a surprise to the three men sitting in the conference. Since early afternoon Posey and Greenlee had been trying to convinced the former owner that he could save the situation in Detroit. He made his announcement at two o’clock Tuesday morning.Blount, after a conference with the men Monday afternoon, left and came hack later in the evening. In the meantime he had held a consultation with his partner, Jame.-'. Nelson. When he returned to the Russ* lt;11 House he declared that he could not afford to make the sacrifice from his business to operate a team.Greenlee, after Blount's refusal to sponsor a team, telephoned to De.Mo-s in Chicago and was informed that John ‘Big Six’ Smith, former Chicago detective, was willing to finance the team in Detroit and that he had told De-Moss to go ahead with arrangements for gathering the players.A short time later Blount stated that he would be willing to make- the sacrifice in order to save baseball for Detroit.“In making this sacrifice for baseball, I intend to give the Detroit funs the same kind of a team I had-when I left the game in 1924,” the former magnate
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Detroit Tribune
Detroit, Michigan, US
Sun, Apr 09, 1933
Page 5
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Michael W.
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