New-York tribune., 1900-07-14
BASEBALL.
NETWORK TEAM-G. DAVIS TO TRY
THE JOB FOR THE THIRD TINE.

The baseball menagerte at the Polo Grounds,
under the supervision Of Boss Croker and his
Heutenants. has ceased TO ettract much public at
tention special performance in the menagerie
yesterday. not exhibited before this season. but
act far from new in previous seasons. the re-
urement OF William Buck Ewing as the
ager OF the circus. Ewing the manager Of
me New-York team several years ago, when the
general public enjoyed calling the players The
Giants In those days the battle-cry OF We
are the people resounded from the Battery TO
Harlem whenever some otner team came TO town
TO tackle tho respected and learned, courageous
and sportsmanlike players belonging 10 the local
team. But that before Croker unearthed
Andy Freedman and permitted him get the
fingers Of the stranger upon the throat Of profess
sioual baseball in this district. That in the
spring Of 1895 and there has not been any first
class baseball in New-York since
But while the managers. the players and the
ground attendants have been changed around
with regularity. the clown Of the arena. who also
acts as ringmaster and cashier, continues TO hold
his job 0o which is attached a rather ample sal
ary) without interference. far known,
any direct orders from the Boss" Up to the
game yesterday the New-YOrk team had two
games out of eighteen played and had strongly
intrenched itself IN last place that proaby
than eight hundred people went up TO the grounds
to see the game yesterday with Brooklyn. Under
old conditions the attendance would have been
ten thousand or fifteen thousand persons.
So II behooVed the ringmaster OF the circus TO
LOOK around and decide upon some change in the
mendgerle- " lllam Buck Ewing consequent
" the subject selected for sacrifice While Ewing
had two years contract with the club, ne
willing TO retire. providing his salary paid to
him in full for the year This the rngmaster agreed
TO DO, as this arrangement possibly prevents dis
agreemnt in court regarding that two years con
tract Ewing says that he is satisfied, and II he
is. certainly nobody else has right 10 make
noise.
George Davis who succeeds Ewing manager OF
the team has twice before occupied that office.
he has not played in month until yesterday.
Since John NJ. Ward retired voluntarily as manager
AT the close Of the OF 1894 the following
fortunate men have tried to fill his shoes q. Davis,
Arthur Irwin Jack Doyle John B. Day, Fred
HOey. Harvey Watkins. A. .. Arson and Buck
Ewing Ewings salary was 50 800 year. Friends
OF the ex-manager say that he quit the business
because several Of the players. namely Davis.
Doyle Gleason, Grady. Warner and Van Haltren,
formed a clique and refused play their best 1t
also SAID that Of the players were fond
Of running 10 the downtown office Of the club and
chattering away 10 the ringmaster little stories
about the dOngs of the other players on the team.
There is also said TO be jealouses among the
veteran tailendnrs toward the two players who
from Cincinnati These players Selbach
and Smith, and they have been doing better work
than any Of the other members of the local team
Davis is popular with the players and capital
ball player, and his friends will wish him every
success.