The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-20
SPORTING NEWS.
Several Great Ball Managers to
Be Fired.
HanIOn, McGraw and Tebeau
Marked For Suppression.
BY NATIONAL LEAGUE
Are Too Clever and Too Smart
Is the Cry.
Attempt VIII Be Made to Keep
Them From Playing.

ST. Louis, Nov. 2O.-According to Tim
Murnane, a Boston authority, Ed Han
lon of Brooklyn, John McGraw of Balti-
more and oliver Tebeau of st. Louis,
three of the four greatest baseball man
ayers in America, are marked for hunlil-
iation, suppression and, if necessary,
total obliteratiOn and annihilatiOn, by
the new combine in National league
baseball, the WisdOmful Kerr OF Pitts
burg, who has never given his good
town a winning team, the brave Freed
man Of New York, who ruined the
game in the metropolis; the eagle
squeezing SOden of Boston, the delight
ful Rogers of Philadelphia, who wreck
ed many a team, and who is not q
Grant any way you take him
All this is to be done in the name
of baseball. Good, able managers men
of initiative, like AIcGraV, HanlOn and
Tebeau, are to be handicapped and
brought back to the standard of fellows
like Buck Ewing, Pat Donovan, Shett-
slime and PigeOn-ShOt Fred HOey, who
has been managing the New York team
Doubtless Mr. Freedman. who is now
the whole thing in baseball, pays HOey
One-half of what Hanlon IS paid IN
BroolSlyn. To give the New York team
q chance with Brooklyn, Hanlon must
be handicapped in order to bring MIN
back to Hoey, who is not a baseball
man, who is simply pigeon SHOI.
Freedman has a $1,000 third baseman
in New York, and to give him chance
with McGraw, who gets $1,000 ana IS
be leg1slated against and weighted
This trick of bringing good men to the
standard of bad is a new one, and, as
might be expected of anything, coming
from such a source, is wrong IN theory
principle and practice.
Boston, Mass, Nov. 20-Edward Han
lon, John McGraW and Oliver Tebeau,
managers respectively of the Brooklyn,
Baltimore and St Louis clubs, the
former labOring under the double hOnor
of acting president of the Baltimore
club, and all looked on as leading lights
in the active pursuit of baseball sue
cess, are marked men by the new ana
advancing powers in the Natohal
league.
Freedman, with Rogers and Kerr as co
Q partners have come to the conclusion that
the men are wholly responsible Tor the
questionable methods used during the last
few years on the bail field, 50 plaIlnly, 5 eX55
clubs uD to the last season, and St Louis
and Brooklvn this and unless Edward
Hanlon, John McGraw and Pat Tebeau
forever dispose of the foul tactics on the
field. to the disgust of spectators, the gen
tJemen viii eel calls that will mean all
the fight they care for. Before cities like
Z BrooEivn and St. Louis are taken into the
. new eight club circuit, the owners must
D guarantee that these men shall keep in
/ the BACKGROUND unless the teams they
/ manage play ball on legitimate grounds.
These managers will be charged first
/ with killing the game in every town they
| have been connected with. Hanlon allow
/ ed his men to disgrace the game for three
! years in Baltimore. until the sport was
| finally killed in that city. The foul ac-
/ tiOns of his men for years were the talk
/ of the baseball world and Tebeau was
/ following his lead in Cleveland.
! Charges will be brought against Tebeau
/ for questionable acts on the St. Louis ball
| field last season, as well as a few plays
! he made at Philadelphia. The men who
/ have now banded together propose to go
! to the bottom of all the existing evils in
4 the game, and Hanlon, A1cGraw and Te-
/ beau will be the first to stand in the
pillory. This time there will be no equivo-
! eating. The records Of the clubs these
{ three men have managed for the last six
/ years will show the methods used, the
! unfair methods that have injured the
! sport. and, if not eradicated. will surely
/ Kill the game in short time. Baseball
/ in the big cities is too big a game to al
/ low paid managers to ruin simply because
/ they must win at all hazards, whether
! by fair or foul means.
/ Umpires plead hard times when facing
/ these men, and the aggressive work of
McGraw for a notice. Although Hanlon
! was president of the club. and was first
/ responsible for the billingsgate inside
/ baseball methods used by the Orioles, he
/ was closely followed by the Cleveland
| crowd under the leadership of Tebeau.
! The next league meeting will the
! warmest kind of work for all who are
| responsible for bringing the game down
] by syndicate and foul tactics on the field.