Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-14
ALIEN OWN ERSHIP
Local Fans" Not Over Enthusiastic
About American League Club.
PAST EXPERIENCES DISAPPOINTING
Washington People Should Be
Given an Interest in the Team.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS

The receipt of the news from Baltimore
| that Johnny McGraw had decided to cast
his lot with the American League. and that
! matters were crystallizing toward the loca
Ion of a good base ball club in this city
| next season, was received with consider
| able satisfaction by the local patrons of
! the game. As outlined in The Star some
| time back, McGraw controlled the situa-
| ton In the east, and his desertion of the
National Association for the American
| League more than probably settles the fate
| Of the former
The greatest local interest centers around
the location of Manager Jimmy Manning
and his Kansas City team in this city
Manning has many friends in this city, but
ne Will need many thousands to make his
ciuD IN this city successful. The expert
ence OF Washington enthusiasts in the past
as 10 alien ownership will certainly act as
| wet towel on base ball enthusiasm In this
city for years to come. What the Wash
lngton fans want is that local capital
VIII De interested with Mr.. Manning in the
running OF the new Senatorial outfit In
tnls way the W Washington patrons or the
game Will have substantial evidence that
the new local club will not be run entirely
In the interest Of the gate receipts, but that
prioe IN the new Senators will cut some
thing of a figure
Michael Scanlon, the veteran base ball
manager ma Is DESTROYS Of having local capt.
tai interested in the new team and has
generously turned over the organization
ne mad almost perfected to Messrs. DIVER
ana ana walker. who had been looking after
the Washington interests of the NationeI
Association. Mr.. Scanlon and his MANY
TRENDS are DESTROYS of having a good base
ball club in Washington, but past exneri-
e ecs with the Messrs. Wagner have driven
them to point where they insist on local
capitalists being interested in the same be-
fore countenancing the project
During a conversation this morning with
Star reporter, Mr.. Scanlon said
1t doesn't matter to me who controls the
new American League club except that
there must be Washington people interested
ana their money invested Base ball has
been dead in Washington for several years
past on account of alien ownership and
While l know Jimmy Manning personally
to be hrst-class manager. he does not be-
long to this city, and for that reason will
come here on the same footing as did the
Messrs Wagner when the consolidation of
the National League and American Asso-
citation took place some years back.
AS MeSSrS. Dwyer and Walker are Young
men and willing to push matters / have
stepped to the rear in the interest of base
oai' and nope to see them make some ar
new club can be made to be successful.
Local patrons Of the game are sick and
tired of chasing ranbows every summer
in the way Of unfulflled promises. What
they want Is a club that they can talk
about with pride, instead of shame and
also an organization with which they know
Washington people will have something to
say.
Manning has nothing to offer in the way
of a great team. all his stars having been
claimed by the National League season be-
fore last. Should he come here with a
loser he will have but little sympathy and
still smaller patronage But let him come
here with the same outfit and have as
partners several local people, the Washing
ton patrons will then know that strength
ening process will quickly take place as
local pride viii drive them to it. No mat
ter what Mr. Manning will d. there will be
the absence of local pride. and without this
a club cannot be successful. This assertion
Is substantiated when one looks over the
past experiences in Washington and what
the RobisonS have had to contend with in
St. Louis.
to Washington with his club. take third |
interest In the same and be given liberal |
salary a manager. Manning can go |
along on the same lines as the Wagners |
and perhaps make money, but there is |
fortune In it for him should he be compelled |
to take local capitalists in partnership
There seems to be a well-defined impress |
sion among the two parties in this city who |
are willing to invest in base ball that not
withstandng the remarks dropped by Pres
ident Ban Johnson and his companions, 1t
is the intention of Mr. Manning to come to
Washington and run the club entirely alone.
All the reports sent out that Mr.. Manning
Is 10th to leave Kansas City are erroneous.
He Is most anxious to come here, but,
knowing tne great nnahcla. prospects OF
Washington under a successful regime is
DESTROYS of reaping the entire harvest
Messrs. Dwyer and Walker have an or
ganiZation with ample capital. are base ball
enthusiasts and claim that they are en-
titled to this city base bali field of in
YES tment on account of being the first to
enlist capital Messrs. Johnson. Comiskey
Mack and Somers of the American League
will probably be in Washington tonight, and
they will do well to harken to the advice
of the local men who are willing to join
their organization.