The evening world., 1911-12-12
Garry Hermann To-Day An
nounces Appointment of
Veteran Official.

Hank o'Day. the umpire. Is going
into the managerial end Of baseball.
According to Garry Hermann. owner
Of the Reds. the umpire has been &C.
lected to succeed Clark Griffith a.
manager Of the Reds next season. No
contract has as yet been signed. but
that formaiity Will be fixed up before
the end OF the week.
As an umpire O'Day has commanded
a large salary. and he will receive an
even larger n In his new capacity.
All told. O'Day has served as an umpire
for about twenty years. In 1896 he and
Connie Mack, the latter now manager of
the worlds championship team, the
Athletics. were the battery OF the old
Washington team. The Washington
team was then In what was known as
the old American Association. In A.,
O'Day went to the Brooklyn Club and
In 1880 he and Bill Terry played in the
worlds championship game with the
Louisville club, The question OF who
won that series vas never satisfactorily
decided. as the Brotherhood trouble was
then at Its height in the three rival
leagues. Later O'Day became star
pitcher with the Giants. On account Of
the failure OF his pitching arm eight
years ago he had to give up pitching.
Then he became an umpire.
During the last worlds series of base
ball games some question In regard to
his work as umpire was raised In c!n-
cinnatl, through al anonymous warning
sent to McGraw. but McGraw never took
any notice OF the matter. which was
withou, any foundation. o'Day's ap.
pointrnent as manager OF the Ohio city's
CLUB pleases his many friends and &C.
Qua!ntances,
Just before the National Commission
went INTO executive session this morn!ns
tor a second crack at the ticket scandA
MIR. Hermann spoke 20 n few news
paper friends as follows:
"If any OF you newspaper boys now
anything that will throw light on th!s
ticket business We would be awfully
glad TO have you appear before the
commission. We are sinking the probe az
deep ae we can, but we are still withodl
the definite information that would ia
the blame. We have spent 1850 on dc
t~cctives and they are asking for NOR,
funds to continue their Investigation
II anybody knows anything about 4
now is the time to come forward. W,
want to get a. the facts"
From this the crowd of old timer
VINO are beating around the meeting
place OF the baseballers got the i'm
preston that the ticket scandal was go
ius W IN smoke and that nobody woul,
be ensured.
The friends OF Ban Johnson were yer,
much dsappoIntod over the fact tina
lis cha fges and his evidence had no
produced the scnsttlon that was ex
pected. 1t is said that Johnson men
toned names, but did NOT submit proc
necessary to show that there had beef
any coliusion between the club owner
and the spectators. The fact that IN,
commission had been employing q de
tect.ve agency on Its own hook came q
a big surprise, but the operations % u!
detective agency are stlll shrouded |,
mystery,
Another report had II that Mr.. John
son suffered from n sudden attack q
cold feet when he learned that the Phila
delphia club was also to be investigated
That club. by the way. submitted
voluminous report showing Just how IN
tickets were distributed. AS Mr.. John
son Is a membe OF the Commission a
well as prosecuting attorney agains
the Now York club he VAS placed in
rather delicate position and nothin
would be said as TO what he had don,
Lake to Manage Browns.
One OF the semi-oficial announcement
or the day was that Fred Lake woui
be made manager Of the st. Lou
American League Club some time "a
day. All OF the arrangements have bee
completed. and Fred - prepared I