The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-13
Want StovaI To Lead Maps Again
Cleveland Fans Think He Should be Retained Instead of
 Harry Davis

Cleveland baseball enthusiasts dc not cherish the rumor that the Blues are not to be managed next season by George StovaH. Ever since James Mo- Guire resigned his position and Stow all took hold of the managerial reins the cry has been Cleveland will have a new leader in 1912"
 There are a lot of devotees in Cleve- land who doubt that the Cleveland team is to undergo a change of man. agement The majority of Cleveland fans are said to be opposed to any such move. They feel that Stovall has made a very good showing this season and should be retained. Any move to the contrary, StovaH's admir- CTS say, would be a rank injustice which bids fair to give the Yankees a strong battle for the third place berth.
 Stovalls following is so much in earnest that petition has been start ed in the managers favor. The peti- ton has been sent to President SOm- CTS and asks for the retentionsof Sto- wall as the Blues manager. The com munications state that the public is with Stovall. The fans wish to see Stoval1 reappointed for another year in preference to player who has nev- CT had any managerial experience.
 A welI-known baseball man who re- gently returned from Cleveland said to-day that the fans out there are all for the acting manager. "StovaH has made good as a manager he said That is not my personal belief alone but the opinion of all Cleveland fam ager. in that city. Stovall is all they want. The way he has handled the team has met his critics approval When a team is losing the first per- som to be criticised is the manager He iS the victim of all the gibes and insults. iStoval has the fans with him He is a conscientious worker and a player who will develop into first class manager
 There is hardly a fan in Cleveland who will disagree with me.
 This is his first year as leader. and when all things are taken into consideration l.. as well as many oth- CTS, think he has performed wonders with the team. Not a very encourag- ing outlook was before him when Me- Guire threw up his hands. Both La things go right. When Somers asked Stovall if he wanted the job the first baseman did not consent to take the job with an I'll try attitude. He went at it as a man who goes after re- suits. The Cleveland team looked like a third-rater. The injury of La joie did not dishearten Stovall. It gave him the incentive to work all the harder. For while Cleveland hung back in the race. Stovall said nothing; finally the others in the race were taking notice. Cleveland had edged up few points. StovalI stead jed the weak points of the team and patched them up.
 '"The latest surprise was sprung by Stovall when the Maps won ten Detroit on Sunday in a great thir- straight the flight being stopped by teen-inning game. This Cleveland team has the makings of a pennanS winner, and I think that if Stovall gets another chance he'll have the team high in the race next year"
 Some months ago the word went the rounds that Harry Davis of the Attn letics is to take Stovall's job. From time to time it has been said that SOmers desires to have a man at, the head of the Cleveland team who would take entire charge, just as McGraw, Bresnahan and Connie Mack have as- Sumed control of their teams, a man big enough in baseball wisdom to buy and release players on his own ac- count, manager who will take the initiative and run the team practical ly without conferring with the own CTS. In other words, man in whom Somers can place such reliance that he would not have to give the game the personal attention he has since he engaged in baseball