The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-01

CAREER OF
TED PRICE
:si1aE
New Manager Of kewanee Team Has
a Clean Record In National
Game and Enid Fans
Like Him.
FACULTY TO BOLSTER UP
Has Taken Several Teams and
Braced up for Race-Also Ted
Is Successful Handler Of
Men.
FACULTY TO BOLSTER UP

KEWANEE, ILL.,, Aug. IF the
recommendations Of such men as
President Carson of the Central
league, and Kewanee men who have
lived at Wheeling, and there are some
here, are worth anything, then Tied
Price will make the Boilermakers an
ideal manager. From his home town,
Enid, Oklahoma, comes a splendid
recommendation in the way of an
article on his departure, taken from
the Enid Daily Eagle of Tuesday of
this week. The fans here will be
deeply interested in the following j
BY transaction which was con-
summated yesterday Edison D. Price,
of the Enid Railroads, leaves this
evening for Kewanee, Illinois, where
he will manage that club in the Cen
trail Association. This comes as a.
blow to the Enid fans and the West
ern Association in general Ted Price
has won his way into the hearts of all
clean lovers of the national game,
| and he is hard man to lose.
The offer from the Central league
club came as a complete surprise but
the proposition made by the Illinois
club was so alluring that Price, de-
spite his reluctancy to leave Enid,
was advised to take the position. The
fact that the Western Association is
on the ragged edge. and the season
closes next month made Price more
/ ready to change. The Central league
is In faster company and they pay
better salaries, the season runs till
! September Is, and 1t affords a steady
job. When Price got the telegram
from the Kewanee club yesterday he
Immediately showed 1t to Manager
/ Kennedy of the Readers When he
decided to accept he wired President
Shaw at Enid, and his release from
the Readers was readily secured.
Enid and the Western Association
congratulate Ted Price on his sue
cess Local fans regretfully admit
that Ted is just little bit too much
of an adept In the baseball line for
this neck of the woods. Price is es-
sentially westerner in his makeup,
and out here in the bushes is where
his career began; but most of his
i playing has been In the east. Price
i played his first professional baseball
in 1895 In Kansas. He played for diff
ferent teams independently over the
state of Kansas and Oklahoma until
1900.
One day in the season of 1900 a
scout from the American Association
happened down to Hutchinson where
| this tow-headed chap was playing.
Fancy can fondly picture the baseball
frontiersman as he watched Prices
work At any rate after the visit of
the scout Ted Price went up to To-
ledo in the A. A.
He played while but he was still
young-in fact one of the youngest
/ players who ever was "sent up from
this section of the country. In 1901
he was EARNED out, to Cedar Rapids
in the "Three-Eye." Later he got his
release from the American Associa-
ton and in 1902 he became manager
II OF the CEDAR Rapids club.
/ In 1909 Wheeling, w. va, for about
the third consecutive year had a
chronicaIly losing club Wheeling
was baseball mad and they had a
team. Some one had heard of Price
at Cedar Rapids and in the middle of
the season he was induced to go to
Wheeling. The team was SO far In
the cellar it could not see daylight
and the season was well spent. Many
we're already discouraged when the
young manager took hand Against
i these odds Price worked the team up
to third place. Wheeling was en-
thusiastic. Ted Price had made his
place forever with the Wheeling fans.
His fame spread far and wide, and the
name of tied Price filed about half
of the sporting sheets in the Ohio
valley that year. Price stayed with
Wheeling for six years, and all but
two managed the club and won PEN
nants.
In 1908 he left Wheeling early and
played few games with the Enid
club-the Readers tailended that year.
In 1909 Price became manager of the
4 Railroaders which had so hopelessly
tailended the year before. History re-
reated itself. The wonders which
Price did with the Wheeling club we're
| duplicated, and Enid won the pen
nant in a walk. The Enid Railroad
ers sent up more players to. the big
leagues in 1909 than any other minor
league club in history; eight men
! went to higher company. 1t was the