New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-05
BAN JOHNSON GUSTS
HUGREY' JENNINGS
American League Gar Opposes
Him as Detroit
Manager.
ECHO OF BASEBALL WAX
Old Player to Join Boston
Nationals at Season S End
as Directing Stock
holder of Team.
ny Telegraph TO The Tribune.

BV telegraph 20 The tribune.
Chicago. Aug. 1.-THE threat OF Ban
=. Johnson 10 force Hugh Jennings
manager of the Detroit Tigers. out n
the American League has become "a
reality The season Of 1912 sees tn"
finish Of the famous Feb Yah as a
manager in the Johnson circuit of
baseball clubs. He is now working
out the last three months Of his Do
troit contract
Next season Jennings will 60 TO the
Boston National League club To- sue
ceed johnny King as manager II
will also be allowed TO purchase lib
eral 81 of the clubs stock. He will
have absolute sway regarding all mat
ters pertaining 10 the personnel Of the
club and free hand 10 spend all the
money necessary To- place a winning
club in he grounds made famous by
the late Frank Selee and the old-timo
Boston champions
Wild Bill Donovan. the veteran De-
troit pitcher. now doing duty the greater
part of the time as a scout for the club.
win become the Detroit manager with
"a two-year contract at something like
$4,000 year. The work Donovan is
doing this year combing the bushes is
merely a preliminary training for his
regular berth next season.
These statements can be made with
the absolute authority Of high official
in the Detroit club. as well as with the
knowledge impaired by a number of
Tiger players. The deals have been
pending for the lest four weeks, and as
far back as three weeks ago the slate
had been fixed. The fear Of causing
Reorganization in both clubs 10 be al
fected has kept the Detroit and Boston
owners from giving the usual publicity
70 change Of this character.
Johnson is said To have volunteered
the information to his cronies. among
them Charles COmiskey. that he would
depose Jennings. The strike Of the De-
trOit players this season over "Ty
Cobbs suspension and Jennings's pa
,ifc stand in the matter. together with
mis- leanings toward the players side Of
The controversy. only tended to show
Johnson that a man with the interest
If the league more at heart should d.
rect a team so popular as the Detroit
aggregation.
Frank Navin. the president. was
given a quiet tip 10 get rid OF Jen-
uiugs. Navin is a strong executive and
farseeing baseball magnate. He saH
that eighteen-year contract Johnson
has as president of the American
League staring him in the face, and
quickly made up his mind 10 side with
Bancroft 4.
Johnny King had failed In Boston
both as d manager and diplomat. as
far as mis- players and the press We're
concerned. Jim Gaffney. Of New York
has purchased John NJ. Wards Boston
stock and now has absolute control o,
the club He had Jennings in mind
having been tipped of 10 the change
in American League affairs by Frank
Farrell. Jennings was offered the
place as soon as Ward was out Of the
club. When Gaffney gained contrO
Jennings was told that the deal was
closed.
wild Bill" Donovan. the new leader
~ the Fighting Tigers, has been De-
troit pitcher for the last nine years
coming from the Brooklyn club in the
DAYS Of warfare between the American
and National leagues. His early train
ing was received around Philadelphia
and his first real minor league work
was with Providence, of the old East
ern. now the International League
He has always been ranked as one
of the really modern pitchers IN the
three years Detroit won the pennant
Donovan and George Mullin were the
mainstays of the club in the box. Don
Ovan has a wonderfully magnetic man
nerism and is extremely popular with
the players. He has marked executive
ability, good baseball sense and is q
shrewd business man. He is the logi-
cal man 10 be selected by President
: Nsvin as Jennings's successor.