El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-20
Professional Baseball Owners,
and Their knowledge OF Game
WELL KNOWN MAGNATES

set of uniforms for the Minneapolis
team-Carr being in the sporting goods
business. Another famous one about
Cantillon originated when ne was man
aging the Washington American
league team The umpire had given
several decisions that vastly displeased
the irascible Joe and he turned TO
president Ban Johnson of the Amer
lean league, who was in box, and ex-
claimed: Say, Mr.. President, warm up
another umpireL"
Griffith of Cincinnati.
Clarke Griffith, now manager of the
Cincinnati team, and in his day one
of the craftiest of pitchers, has spent
much of his nagerial life quarreling
with umpires. Once when manager OF
the New York Americans he was taunt-
ing Silk OLoughlin, the American
league arbitrator, who was in the
midst of a bad slump. while the New
York team was going miserably in the
pennant, race. l won't have TO sit on
this bench much longer and watch you
try to umpire, for you are goner in
this league exclaimed Griffith in an
autburst of wrath. You won't be on
that bench much longer watching any
body if you don't get that team up
nearer the top" retOfted O'LoughI1n,
and they were prophetic words, 1or
Griffith resigned shortly after that
Just as regularly as the leaves turn
each fall. Jake Wells, president of the
Virginia league, announces he is done
with baseball. He is one of the owners
! OF a long string of theaters IN the
south and feels he has all the business
he can handle. Just as regularly as
the robins nest again and the anti
WeIlsites have it all fixed up to cheer
for a successor to the perennial Jake,
he gets the baseball fever, announces
his candidacy, puts hypnotic speil
OF the meeting which has been
especially called to make his reslgna-
ton stick, and becomes head OF the
! league again. He recently made MS
usual winter announcement, but MS
resignation stuck this time and his
successor has been elected
Scribes In New England League.
Tim Murnane and Jake Morse. two
Boston newspaper men are president
and secretary respectively Of the New
England league. Murnane is the father
of the baseball writers and was for
merly a star player. He has been pres
ident of the league for years and seems
destined to hold the job as long as he
lives. Joe Jackson, long president OF
the South Michigan league, is as adept
as Jake Wells at hypnOtiZing hostile
meetings of club owners, but has not
had the retiring fever until this win
ter, when he stepped out and turned
over the hat in which he carried the
league office to one of the many as
pirants.
Connie Miller, former manager of the
Meridian team in the Connecticut
league, tells a story of the most dis
agreeable feature of a managers or
owners duties-releasing men, He
called a man into his office one day to
tell him he could go. Miller did not
know it, but the man had been in bad
! health, was playing baseball on that
account. and had wife and two chill
dren. When he was told that he was
released he tainted dead away and
scared the manager almost into fit.
Miller revived the ilcopetent one.
heard his said tale and did not have
the nerve TO fire him until the season
was over.
No more enterprising minor league
magnate could be found than Pa
ROurke, of Omaha, in the Western
league. He has a good thing in his
franchise and annually clears hand
some profit at the gate, but his special
ty is developing young ball players to
sell. He runs a regular dollhouse for
talent and his recommendation goes a
long way. ROurke said two years ago
that he thought it a bad year when
he did not sell $4,000 worth of ball
players TO the major or class A leagues
In addition, Pa" runs a big sporting
goods store in Omaha and has other
ventures that turn pretty penny.
The Ball Players Friend.
John McClOskey. manager of the
Milwaukee team this year, is known as
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