The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-18
FRANK CHANGE
 IS WEALTHY MAN
MANAGER OF CHICAGO CUES OWNS RANCH AND PLENTY
 OF MONEY.


 Fozowing the announcement of Pres tdent Murphy Of the Chicago Cubs that Frank L. Chance would not manage vzle team next season, Chance last week disposed Of the 10 per cent. Of th4 Chicago clubss stock which he had, and, though he Etzll says that he stands ready 10 renew his con tract taken to mean that he hes bid fare- well to base ball Chance is oonsid- eEed a wealthy man and can afford to
 ss bs Hs psn soea o,d n to ta hsrry slus Aes as land of. P8ttsburg for LOCO It cost Chance s10. GOO par value. and it Is said ae have ' neeted aiina sn TO I,sF csn5 2 s ysar
 Ehance is one Of the comparatively few base ball players who have shared as partners in fhe great prosperity; within the last decade. When c. w Murphy, in the fall of 1905. secured the money lacking to swing the deal for the purchase of the Cubs. Chance secured a 10 per cent interest on the same terms as Murphy secured q ma 5ority hoEtfing.
 In 1906 the Cubs won the rSational League pennant and lost the worlds chan smpionship to the White Sox. The club that year practically paid itself out Chances share of the profits was within $50 of the cost of his 10 per -
 sIn 1898, only eight years before, Chance, without even a minor league 1sbutation. poined the Cubs at 2 salary ti1nated at SIPS, 5,o00 aside from his in terest dn the Cubs. This sum repre- sAnts his base ball earnings and divi-. aehds. and returns from profitable in-1 xestments in California
 When Chance became of age the same year he Joined the Cubs he had a fortune of S15,00o from his fathers es- tate but most of this was spent before hks salary went far above the $1, 200 mark, so his present fortune was de- rived from base ball.
 Frank Leroy Chance was born on September 9. 1871, at Fresno, Cal. He is of Eng1ish-Scott extraction. al- born. His father was president of the First National Bank of Fresno. He has four brothers. two older and two ssr ~ His are mother @ iS f atfl1 living. Iu 1891 he was married to Miss Edith Pancake, his boyhood sweetheart, at Fresno. who was then living in Chi
 Chance attended the public schools i1 Fresno. After the death of his fa- ton College at Irvington. Cal. He was catcher of the college nine in 1893-4-5, bsst instead of graduating decided to nseome proIessaonat al 3ase s 1v oalr paaySr ys,o wanted him to become bank clerk Frank was led to this decision by EUE[mGT CEa84Il1I1t EaOu w c1SUeAs WuAO &as manager of senni-pro club at Sullivan. III. So in 1896 he signed with sullivan at a salary of $40 mon tn; lust how much he actually received Frank does not remember, but 1t Wasl not par on the promise.
 Inasmuch as this Sullivan experience proved costly to the family. counting strongly to a continuation of base ball as a precarious occupation and Chance returned to college in 1897 He found | q fo r,Ia hal nr1 Sa 7av and Sundays on the Fresno team, which | rtas entered in a Pacific Coast amateur | Championship tournament promoted by q San Francisco newspaper. Fifty or E txfy clubs were entered in the eIin1i-l sia1ion tourney and the Fresno team sz.Ave1ed as far as Portland before the contest was ended Fresno finished | Tn this. league France batted .47e and Ats work attracted attention of major Iaague scouts. Offered positions with 'S sw>s York, Baltimore and Chicago Baltimore offering $SO0 more salary than Chicago) Chance chose Chicago hecauee of the better opening, for Tim Fsona.hue was the only regular catcher. He joined the club at West Baden, Ind, March g.
 That season Chance caught twenty seven games and played the outheld n 15 more, batting ,2SS and stealing only five bases In 1899 he caught In bases. In 1903, when he was trans rerred to first base to give the team the use of his battinyl and base run hing every day, Chance led the league with CT stolen bases.
 When Frank Se1ees was compelled 10 surrender his position as manager on account Of i'll health in the season of 1905, Chance was named for the posi- afon by President James A. Hart Ihel 'olIoM1nx year. the first of four Ma Ifona1 League pennauts wac Tvon- The 5thers were in 1907, 1908 and 1910. Thel dub won the worlds peunant in 1907 md 1908 from Detroit and lost in the anaa series to the White acx In ae06iE