Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-17

he sits on the bench permanently this year
Clarke az one time was regarded as a lead
Ing left fielder a fine hatsman and a good
run gotter He went 90 Pittsburg from
Louisville as part of a deal made by Barney
Dreyfuss and has ALWAYS been a f3vorite in
Sm1kcyillo Clarke has q well balanced
team this year and recently made the as
sertion that he feared no club I'm the
league, not even the Cubs and the New
Yorks.
Another veteran. Fred Tenney. will han
die the roorgonized Boston Nationals Ten
ney IS near the end of his career as
player but he can stll play a rattling
game at FIRST base and is a good sticker.
He attracted attention at Brown university
fifteen years ago and Sclce landed him for
the Hub team. Tenney was catcher then.
but he soon displaced Tom Tucker az first
base. where he has been star ever since.
Tenney's ability as a manager has never
| been fairly tetsed. Soden and Conant who
sold the Boston club to George 3. Dewey
friend Of Barney Dreyfuss, last fall, never
permitted Tenney to spend a dollar for a
first-class player with the inevitable re-
suit that the Boston team has been at or
near the tail end ever since the American
| league invaded the Hub. But this year
| Tenney, with new hackers has improved
the team somewhat by the addition of
| Second Baseman Ritchey, Outheldor Nertes
and Pitcher F1aherty, although g , Judges
already predict that the team will not get
out of the second division.
Pat DunOvan's start.
Patrick Donovan Of the Brookyns is an
| other old-timer who still plays occasion
| ally. Donovan played with the Brooklyns
| nearly ten years ago, when Dave Foutz
| was the manager He has jumped around n
great deal ever since, playing in Pittsburg,
| St. Louis, Boston. Washington and other
cities He was the manager in st. Louis,
! Pittsburg and Washington, but he did not
| score much Of a success in those cities and
was really out of a job when the Brooklyn
| club, after the release of Hanlon, picked
| Donovan up for nothing with a scrub lot
! of players last year Donovan proceeded TO
| build up a team at Washington park that
| soon surprised the fans and turned over a
| bunch of profits to the stockholders of the
| club. The team wound up the campaign
with such speed too, that a brilliant fu-
ture has already been predicted for IT, the
critics going so far as to say that Brooklyn
may finish as high as fourth or even third
this year.
Eastern league club, will handle the Phila-
delphia Nationals instead of Hugh Duffy.
Murray for nineteen years has been a man.
ager in the minor leagues, where he won
| eight pennants In 1896 he was talked of
as a possible candidate for the manage
| ment Of the New Yorks, but the deal fell
! through. His best work as manager was
in Providence and Jersey City, where he
! developed champion teams, and also turned
out such noted players as Parent of the
| Boston Americans, Doolin and Grant of the
Philadelphia Nationals, Thomas Of the New
| York Americans and others. For many
years Murray played not only base ball
| but also roller polo, game that is a win
ter fad in New England and the west. He
is a well posted, diplomatic hustler, who
would have taken the management Of the
| Boston Americans if the Philadelphia club
had not been so quick.
St. Louis will have John j. McCloskey
as managers of the Cardinals. McCloskey
was the handler of the Louisvilles in the
| old twelve-club circuit at one time and
seemed to be able to dig up clever players
He has put through some good deals since
he assumed the ST. Louis job last year, and
! at present has a team of young players
from whom he expects a great deal. But
from all indications MCClOShey seems
booked for the tail end in the National
league race.
The Eastern league teams will be In the
hands of eight well known base ball men
Joe Kelley, who was Hanlon's predecessor
in Cincinnati and a famous player in his
day, will manage the Toronto team. Kelley
played with Cincinnati for years, and wher
he went to Cincinnati as manager and cap.
tain a great career was predicted for him
But he fell down hard, the team playing
inferior ball and Kelley himself going back
so rapidly in form that when Hanlon got
ready to let him go It was found that moi
a club in either of the big leagues wanted
his services. Kelley, however, will get as
much salary in Toronto as he received IL
Cincinnati. He has chance to redeem
himself, and if successful he may soon &c
back to fast company
Hugh Duffy, at one time the best hitter
in the National league, will manage the
Providence team. Duffy and Fred Doe
purchased the franchise last fall, after tho
former had resigned the management OF
the Philadelphia Nationals. 1t was nearly