The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-09
MANAGERS MAY
 BE LOOKING FOR
 JOBS NEXT YEAR
SEVERAL BIG LEAGUE CLUES DUE TO MAKE CHANGE IN
 LEADERS.

l
 year? The answer cannot be given.
 says I. F. Sanborn, a baseball write.
 until all the club owners whose hope.
 have been disappointed this seasou
 make up their minds about the next
 Before the first of September uaz
 reached there were two switches lri ! the American league. Long before tfa. l date Rhody Wallace surrendered fbe | infringement of the St Louis Browns i in George StovaIl, whose previous sr.- cess in piloting the Cleveland team after Jim McGuire resigned on May s 1911, made him the logical candidate for the job.
 1 Just as the Naps braeed up under 1 StoXalIs leadership last year and position in the second, so the Fsrowlns have improved under new leadership and have actually esca ped the tail end after a being hopeless to all appearance for the better part of two season.. Those two accomplishments make it practically certain Stova1l will be re i tained by Colonel Hedges. the master
 Harry Davis, who was signed 10 sue ceed A1cC%uire when the veteran catch CT resigned, but who could not get free from Philadelphia until the end of ihe
 season, found the situation confront
 ing him in the Ohio town too tough
 for solution. There is no doubt fhe Cleveland club would have retained
 Stovall after his good showing if lt
 had not contracted with Davis. There
 was only one way for Davis to still
 the complaints, and that was to win
 Pennant. He could not do that nor
 make as good a showing with the
 team as Stovali did There was only
 one finish and Davis beat the club to
 it. What Cleveland will do for a
 manager next year is uncertain but
 BirInfngham has been given full con
 trol, and it is a cfnch if the team
 braces under him.. President Soners
 will not repeat the Stovall-Davis mis-
 take.
 
 for the ex-manager list in the Amer
 ican league. He is Harry Woiverton
 of the New York Yankees. WoIverton
 came from the Pacific coast with
 great reputation but found the condi-
 tions confronting him in the Gotham
 town little different. There was an
 person of "E4aP' Chase, and a star
 holding out in the person of @'FJdd3e"
 Sweeney, his only reliable catcher. Before these two problems were solved
 the Yankees were down and out and in the last half of the season there wac SO little improvement that the gOs- sips are busy slating a new name for
 There are three possible candidates for the discard in the National league. Henry ODay, formerly Hank Bill Dahlen and John c. Kling. To those who knew the conditions under which all three have Iabored there is no dis but a change may be favored by the club owners ODay probably would be in much greater favor in Cincin- natl if the Reds had not gone out in front and raised high hopes of a pen nant winning in the early spring hopes that were bound to be dashed because the material was not there for a championship team. ODay has done as well as any man unfamiliar with what he was up against could be expected to do, and if Hermann
 Kling was handicapped at the early part of the season by the attempts of President John M. Ward to run the club on the scale that obtained when Ward was himself in baseball back In the last century. Neither the players nor the public would stand for it, and finally gave Ward a stated time iu which to buy or sell. Ward sold, but it was too late to produce much i'm provement in tatl-end team. Calf ney thinks pretty we'll of King, but the catcher contenplates quitting the game altogether in favor of another big billiard emporium to excel the one that was burned.
 Dahlen in the two years he has Brooklyn has done as well as his numerous mediate predeces- sors-and not better. It is doubtful if any one can do much better unless the Brooklyn club changes tts system when :t deserts the old ground for the new. There is every likelihood that the Infants will be under new leader ship in 1919 because Ebets believes well as raiment. Not all the other are fixed for 1918. There is A possibility that two of the oest leaders in baseball will be missed next year, but as yet it is regarded aH only possibility. Frank Chance and Fred Clark want to quit the game for the simpler life, and both are honest in their desires Both have done un= old good to baseball during their ca -eers and both can retire with honor grove in California, which appeals to 1in1 much more strongly than the strife and worry of leading a pennant every year, particularly aH lis health of late has worried bO4h himself and his family. Clark owns t big farm in Kansas and hears it ,attIe. These two grand characters will not be lost to the game except
 Dreyfus has said that Clark can manage the Pirates as long he is wiling 10 do it. Both Chance and Clark have long-term contracts wl1ch
 i'he rest of the managers will re- nain, barring the unforeseen act Of There was some doubt bout Jennings after the strike among is players but the Detroit club has igned him to remain in charge of the Higers. Connie Mack Is part owner Of he fall down of his moral suasion" ystem this year. Clark Griffith and ake Stahl, also part owners of their espective clubs have more than made -ood and are certainties, although tahl may not play the game regularly ext year on account Of failing legs. ames J. Callahan has satisfied Com .key and will be given a chance fn uild up a new team on the south idle.
 omain at the helm in New York ns 1ng as the present ownership of the Tub continues and perhaps longer Iresnahan already has been assured y Mrs President Britton that she De eyes in him and that he can remain