The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-30
HARD FIGHT FOR
FLAG TO RESULT
New Managers Will Go Into
Forthcoming Baseball Battle
With Determination.
(By Sam Crane.)

With four new managers assured IN
the National league for next year the
season of 1913 will nave a speculative
interest for baseball fans that should
add much zest to the championship
race of the parent organization.
Joe Tinker is to have charge of the
Cincinnati Reds, George Stalltngs will
lead the Boston Braves. Miller Hug
gins will try to improve the standing
of the St. Louis Cardinals owe the
record made by Roger Brasnahan and
Johnny Evers will endeavor to push
the Chicago Cubs at the same fas,
pace set by Frank Chance or to a
epeedier clip.
There are three of these new lead
ers who will nave their first expert
ence as managers. George Stallings is
the only one of the quartet who has
fought diamond battles from the
Braves with an established reputation
as a wise leader and also as a man of
great business success in conducting
baseball affairs.
-Four Managers of Glass.
In fact, the class of all h four new
men selected to head their respective
teams is very high and warrants the
belief tina every club that is under
new management will be greatly i'm.
proved in every point that goes to
make a winning aggregation.
All the o u managers Will nave
thor ups and downs, but that is all
in the game of baseball and should be
expected, not only by the new manag-
ers themselves, but also by III parti-
san public of their own cities.
Too much should not be expected of
duties. They will he opposed by Nc
tiraw, Clarke, Doom and Dahlen. all
mel who have had years of experience
in the managerial game. and who will
be only too anxious to take advantage
of any shortcomings on the part of
their new rivals.
All of the new managers canno be
at the head of winning. teams. u 1t
goes without saying that all will strive
for success as they never have before.
National League Lucky.
The National league is very fortu-
nate to be able to secure the services
of such an array of talent n will
start next seasons race with the pros
pect of it's being of the most thor
oughly interesting from every angle
that could be furnished. The many
changes of management will add a
spice of rivalry that SHOULD be most
henlthful.
With Evers and Tinker in a battle
of managerial wits, the games be-
tween the Cubs and Reds will make
baseball history. as will those between
the Giants and Cubs and the Giants
and Reds.
There is no doubt. that Evers and
Tinker we're a big part of the brains
of the Cubs. Chance was a born base
ball leader, but still it cannot' be de-
MED that Evers and Tinker were most
worthy lieutenants OF the P. l.. With
out those two stars Chance might not
have becn us uniformly successful as
he was. II that is not said to take
away the least mite from the splendid
record he has made.
would have thought SO quickly as
Johnny Evers in detecting the tech
nical point that Merkle had failed to
touch second base in n particular
game of historical but lamentable
memory?
Who but Joe Tinker could have
solved the puzzling delivery of Christy
Mathewson, then at his best. to the
advantage that Joe's vicious and time
ly wallops secured for the Cubs?
II is safe to say that lIvers and
Tinker have lone more than II other
two Cubs to shut the Giants out of
prospective championships. and l bear
in mind. too, the grand work done by
Frank Chance and Bordecai Brown.
Wise to Clarke n Mc(;raW.
Both Evers and Tinker as new man
ayers. will he wise to Mc(iraw's and
Clarke's moves. and the games III
which these four leaders figure in
pairs will be baseball classics.
Then Roger BresIlahan will he II
big factor in diamond contests with
some club in the National league. and
while he will not be Il manager. still
he viii be prominent just for the one
big reason that he annot help 1t. And
the club that secures Rogers services
will always he fighting for n leading
position in the race. And l guess
Roger will not draw out people when
ever he goes to st. Louis.
The many changes of leaders will
bring new faces into different clubs.
for all the four new managers will
cndeavor to- strengthen their teams
with players whom they are sure of
as to playing ability and mental ca
pacity. That, means that there will
be a more deals completed than
have yet become talked abour.
Managers arc secretive when they
have important trades In prospect. for
too much publicity frequently spoils
good things" but the winter will sep
moro surprising shifts than have yet
m~aterialized.
News From StaIllngs. It
Manager Stallinss has something up
his sleeve. and he always works quiet.
~. He will have the Boston Braves
very much talked about. when the
time comes AZ he thinks to spring the