The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-21
MANY NEW WESTERN MANAGERS
Four Teams Under Different General
ship This Season.

! Sioux City, Ia. jan 21.-Half of the
| clubs in the Western league Will nave
new managers when the bell rings Ioi
the commencement of hostilities in the
spring. There never have been SO many
! changes in the history of the organiza-
ton and it will make it difficult &c
dope" out the race until the new lead
ers have shown at least sample OF
their capabilities.
New field generals will be in charge
at Sioux City, Des Moines, Wichita
and Denver Babe Towne is the new
boss Of the Packers, Jack Hendricks
will succeed Charley Jones at Denver
and Izzy Isbell will try to prove to the
fans of Wichita that he is as good a
manager as player. Uncle John Hlg-
gins as yet has not announced-Who Will
lead the Boosters at Des MONIES. There
is a possibility that Smiling Bill Dwyer
will be back, but the chances are
against this, as he probably viii be
gobbled up by some American aSsocia-
ton team If Comiskey does not retain
him for the White Sox.
Jack Holland, although a manager in
the league last season, will be In new
field at st. Joe. Bill Fox has been re-
tanned by Pa Rourke at Omaha and
Dick Cooley will continue to handle the
Topeka outfit from the bench. Both
Cooley and Holland have proved their
cations which will have to be reck-
oned with. Both will start with
nucleus of players that are as good as
any in the organization.
Fox has yet to demonstrate that he
is capable manager. Ducky Holmes
left him a team at Lincoln which the
year before finished close second, but
the best Fox could do with it was a bad
fifth. Last season he did not prove any
Improvement over Buck Franck at
lacks the qualities for first class lead
OF the new talent Hendricks is tout
ed as the one most likely to land a
winner. He comes to the league with
reputation for aggressiveness and
judge of a player. Added to this, Nc
Gill. the new Denver magnate, has
opened wide his purse strings and tod
Hendricks to go out and get the pest IN
the country. Hendricks says he VIII
have team at the Colorado metropolis
made up of big league stars. Those
who have followed the career of Hen
bricks predict that he will be the
Ducky Holmes of the league next sea-
son. lie is of the same type of man
ager and always bats the umpires and
is trouble maker of the first water.
Isbell is one of the wisest ball players
in the country and there is no question
but that he has the qualities of man
ager. However, he cannot win without
proper material and Wichita will have
to be wonderfully strengthened to cut
anything of a swath in the Western
next season. Izzy is alive to the fact
that all of the clubs are preparing for
a great struggle and when the gong
sounds he will probably have a strong
aggregation in the field.
Here at Sioux City the fans have i'm
p1icit faith in the ability of Manager
Towne. While all are willing to agree
that Holmes was a great manager they
believe the Coon Rapids man will de-
liver the goods in large chunks. No
man in the league knows the fine points
of the game better than Babe and he
will surprise many of the unthinking
ones around the circuit by his agrees
siveness. Babe is signing a strong
team and at the present time it looks
as if the Packers will be around the
top at the finish.