The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-04
Five Clubs in National
League Seeking Managers

about baSebal as any one, perhaps
more. If he will permit Evcrs to
manage the club 1t has an outside
chance of finishing in the first division
! consents to be merely acting captain,
and allows Murphy to select the play
ers and order the changes and style
of play. the team will Ill Boston and
Brooklyn q hard race for sixth and
seventh places. The players know ii
so does Evers.
Evers is to be pitied. He accepted
the Job as manager because he needed
the money. He is willing to stand the
abuse that will come to him for what
there is in it. He always will be
game. and yet to see a game. high
strung young fellow go out and un-
dertake to endure what will be the lot
of Chances successor seems a shame.
der fair conditions. but he cannot hope
for mercy from the Chicago crowd.
| They like him, but they hate Chances
successor.
Tho National league meeting late
this month probably will decide the
fate of that organization. Part of the
club owners; indeed. a majority of
them. are determined to squelch the
scandals in that body. President Lynch
has assurance of backing from a ma
jority Of the owners-and he is after
both Fogel and Murphy.
Fogel has replied to Lynch's charg-
es by making a sweeping denial of all.
He denies saying the National league
race or the umpires were fixed. He
denies everything charged by Lynch.
Yet the original manuscript. signed
by Fogel, is in the possession of a
Chicago newspaper and will be pre-
scented at the league meeting with aff1-
davits as to the authorship. When
this evidence is presented to the
league 1t is ikey to produce the big
Eest sensation ever sprung in baseball.
The reporter and the newspaper
league of crooked work are keeping
quiet. The article was printed in Chi
cago at a time when Fogel could not
have given 1t out. except by mail. The
reporter was not in Philadelphia. The
! paper hints that the interview came
direct from the Chicago club offices.
Mr.. Lynch says that II 1t can be prov
ed that Murphy was concerned In the
giving out or the writing of the ar
ticle. he will demand the ousting of
Murphy as we'll as Fogel.
Nice mess-and on top of that Gar
~ Hermann Is SO fearful of scandal
diIiOIlS Suc pldSctS tAsa iS WduI6 "
cut down their share OF the worlds
series receipts. If the attempt to do
that is made We shall have a chance
to see how much power and coher-
ency the new players organization
has. The players will not stand for
any such movement.
The playing outlook for next spring
Is almost as mussed up as is the man.
aGerial situation. Only W clubs will
escape big MISUNDERSTANDING and
the Boston Red Sox. Boston will have
one change. for Jake Stahl will not
PLAY regularly. and during the spring
training will try to break Hal Janvrin
In as first baseman, with himself and
Bradley to fall back on should the
youngster explode. Clarke. II he re-
mains Mt Pittsburgh. or rather comes
back. will stand pat on his team.
McGraw. In spite Of his pennant
winning. will make at least two chang
es. There are big deals in prospect.
and the intermeetinE Of the big
leagues will develop a lot Of important
changes-more than have been made
In years.
New York. Boston. st. Louis. Gin
cinnati and Chicago In the National
league. st. Louis. New York. Phila-
dolphia. Chicago and Washington in
tho American. are out to trade. and
thcre is n chance for ON big swap
ping during the winter. that may up
turn NIL the form IN the big league
races for neXt yea