The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-07
BASEBALL GOSSIP FOR THE FANS

WlB0MWhM IL WI u kl LlA |H Uhu EM0 0ItW Whs Well. he ought to be pretty well up.s educated in New England. and besides
 being q cracking good pitcher, was cap years. s
 sam Crane on the Managers. Sam Crane says of the managers.o or the two big leagues:
 Here they are--the managers Of the ! two big league teams:
 l "National--McGraw. Penney, Mur- l ray. Chance. Hanlon. Mccloskey' Don
 sAinerican--Grifath, stahl. Mack. Jones. Lajoie. MoAleer, Jennings, Can They are ell there with the goods.
 too. One cannot pick out a flaw m | the whole list. They are all men oI texperienoe and should all make good. And it is the managers to whom we look for results. They are the I people!
 One of them may have Mathew son or one may have Chesnro' norn ou, over night. They are as visionary as a will-o' -the-wisp. The Mathewson of today may be the "has been" of to- .Buf 1t is up to the managers to keep a team up to the mark--and a winning mark
 ] Tn scannin~ over that list ! .ncnn cnn
 
 list. Just look at the list they can
 sxs between Mceraw and Grinith No. men, but. will have to take my | hat or to Grin for getting a team to- gether that looks good for four or nve years without making any decided I changes. That is the nanageriai tn- stinct. To look ahead. McGraw gees l to old players. He is only looking Tor l the present Griff1th, on the contrary has 2 team that will last for five years
 There Is always time with ball l players when they are going back that is. 1T are not coming. ,. Giants. What a player is there among | them that is coming. Surely Dan Mo Gann Is not getting any more youth; fni ns, as ne goes as1ns; rnns Ne1sne ~ seymonr Joe McGinnity. Bowerman or Bresna- han. Those are the players who have got to give way to the youngsters, Al Al 1 They may light against 1t, but age will | tell. and tho boys who peeked through th fence Ss st yss are wp% Tr1wins even Ys nh had Charley Jones and Eddie Leach tell me that they had peeked through the fence at me. T. of course; knew they your hair turns gray one has to stand i for lot
 | ''No in scanning over the list, the I American League managers look to msf ! fo have the call. by slight margin. 1 Edward Everett Reii says so. anyway. and his tudement Is pretty near to be- ing all to the good. "A |. "wha. local fans have to do with is | the two managers. McGraw and Grif- 1 T think the latter looks ahead bit | more than the Giants leader. GriHth has fortified himself. He can go ..s. along I f,s AxEM No n l near sure to have a one. two. three az l gregation. He has young players on | his team of promise Tnev are sure TO make good. If not this year-then the
 aMceraw stiii trusts to the oId-tim- CTS His signine of Tommy Corcoran shows that. Mr5raw does not , tn,nS ,,n1v. | that evervbodv else does. l sT had the hardest work ever had to make NoG~aw thfrg the Yankees were as good az .hsv were credited ,,n 1,th h MeC-sw and nothing else. He wants | to ,re-ease his scoDe.
 s'fsrtfath is rrore hroad- minded more Tronrssssye .bon Mccsraw re c-,ersh Sas @ stan of | voun gstaws now that in the re~t i've -ears will he tise stars of the H.fmonn Thev are bound to show With sns nwceptfon af EAr0uson. cArnot see 1 c.raw wiIg cortioue fo rio UT those | nJavers who will rnake good Bnt ne 1 ,-,ust get out nf that idea It Is the vonns fe,ows who are tn he the base war.s wa. .',@s "a Far.,.v hinseH with them.
 ''Rasehail is dier~rart now from whst ,- if was when the Cyrinias were on deck
 A manager has got to look ahead, and @ long way. too"
 Has Troubles os Ills 0yr. l Rillv S-nith is heeinninp to nave | large chunks of trouhle handed him. as | the following from The Atlanta Geor- 1 eia~ shows:
 nlavers on whom Bill-- Smith is de- l bending for hts team next wear. have 1 as vet refused to sign contracts Tor
 1907 and there are . srave hess aears men ,e will I cause trouble, and perhaps not get III
 "rhe whereabouts of RIll Dyer ..,',, and | niav in Atlanta are both sources Of 1 greet worry to Manager srnith;
 "nyer Is the uronertv of the Auanta ! club, but uu to yet he h"S naid no
 more attention to Billy Smiths. let
 ters than as though he beionTed 10 | fhA Chicag0 Americans and hao rex
 ular worlds championship sweneo
 n'"2 "What this silence means nobody l knows but there is no denvin~ th1ss
 Dyer does not turn up. there Is a pig 1 hole in the Atlanta team and one that | 1t will be next to impossible to nll al
 this stage of the gam"
 "Baxter Sparks case is most az
 gravating one. Baxter did not ritcn l such marvellous ball last wear as 70 | justify him in getting. pufted up He
 was a pretty good pitcher. but no r9as sa
 pitcbed in twenty games in the South
 ern League last year TST TS'r, eiTnt nItchnra sms in the league did better Only sixteen | did worse. ,x.,,..r, | +hof snarks would improve some this
 year Smith raised his saisry sE.rSs SsS over nsT
 1srst+y hiph for younRster. But
 Baxter isn't satisfied and ,,;, is held'RSS T,,S
 ths+ he can wake more in the bushes"
 Mnaeaning M'ss'ss!nni ard ArkanSas.
 where Baxter flourished before the At. ! Ianfa team took him uo. Al first BN- l iy was strong for t-lling him to stick