Description: TESREAU Being Sued for Breach of Promise by Girl From Missouri

Date: April 23 1914

Newspaper published in: Grand Forks, ND

Page/Column: 2/2

New York, April 22.--Charles Monroe TESREAU, the Giants' pitcher from the Ozark country, is being sued for $25,000 for breach of promise. The plaintiff is Miss Clara YOUNG of Perryville, Mo., who says Big Jeff was engaged to her when he married Miss Helen E. BLAKE of New York a short time before the Giants started on their world tour.

The summons and complaint were served on TESREAU when he was at practice at the Brooklyn park. The case will be tried in the supreme court here, and, from the many burning love letters in the possession of Miss YOUNG's attorney, James B. MACIE, 15 Wall Street, the indications are that the baseball world will have much to talk--and laugh about.

Big Jeffs thoughts on "our dear manager," John MCGRAW, and many other interesting sidelights on the Giants in particular and baseball in general are contained in the love missives.

The complaint charges that TESREAU proposed marriage to Miss YOUNG December 27, 1912, when on a visit to his home in Perryville. Miss YOUNG, at the time a telephone operator, accepted him, and the Missouri newspapers published announcements of the engagement. She says she has suffered great mental pain and has bern subjected to much humiliation because of the ball player's jilting of her. She says, also, that, relying upon his promise to marry her, she left her position and incurred expense in the preparation of her trousseau.