The Detroit times., 1913-07-26
Three Years Agreement Keeps
Hughie Here For Two Sea-
- sons, at Least
ALL SECOND DIVISION
MANAGERS ARE PANIED
Stovall. For Instance, Hero Az
Cleveland. is a Dub at ST.
Louis
BY RALPH l.. YONhER.

Whore there's smoke tAeA' ."
and where there are rumoIs ln"' PN'
sist there is usually some truth
There have been persistent s'ol %
nubIished in the newspapers "'"u'
the American league circuit Ihd' 80
is Manager Jennings last year
the Tigers and there nave ueeu y"
&c many stories printed that IL Ger
tainly is not Hughes last season VII"
us by any means. -t,..
The continued publication or stories
that Jennings is going To bIooA''
has brought uneaslness 10 SUM "
his friends here who know the eneO'
of constant repetition OF such taies
THE orieinators of these yarns over
look one very important cous'ue'
ton that should clog their pens OF pc
fiddle their typewriters IN the III
naragraph Jennings is mere no" up
on n three-years contract Jus' no"
no Is going TO leave Detroit wheh he
las contracted to stay Tor three sea
sons is hard TO figure out.
OF course, players ana managers
who have had contracts nave been re-
leased before their term expired. lhey
have sometimes brought suit for pay
ment of salaries and have usually won
them. But these cases are rare
Another thing that the taleteliers
have forgotten to do is to consult
Frank j. Navin the president OF the
Detroit club Navin will instantly
deny any report that Jennings is 10
leave and he will attribute II 10 writ
ers who like 10 stir up trouble In
other clubs,
Last season when even the Detroit
fans were talking about Hughie go
ing and about the prospect OF Bill
Donovan's succeeding him 10 the Ilg-
ers' manage ment Nayin shut them up
in most effective manner by sign
ing Hughie for three seasons before
the usual time for signing contracts
had come, thereby showing better
than repeated denials could that he
meant what he said when he stated
that Jennings was to stay.
Bill Donovan is managing a minor
league club and gaining valuable eX-
perience in case he should be decided
upon as the boss for the Tigers at
some future time. There is little
doubt bat that Donovan would be the
man TO fill Hughes shoes in case he
should step ont Of them However,
there is little danger that Jennings
VIII quit the IlEtIs duu iO udu6ti
that Navin will quit Jennings
OF course, the real cause for the
talk about the change OF managers
for the Tigers in other cities is the
natural conclusion mat speculative
writer's come 20 that any club which
In not winning mast be considering a
new man to boss the team. Stovall is
as good as ousted from the ST Louis
Tnk
OF the Montgomery club OF the outh
ern league. is elected TO fill his place.
Branch Hickey, coach OF the Univer-
sity OF Michigan and Brown scout, is
second choice for the Job The own
ers of the Browns keep denying that
any such change is in prospect but
OF course II is policy 70 do that as
long as Stovall is running the club.
The case OF Stovall shows that win
ming managers are heroes and losing
cnes dubs unless they have great
reputation behind them When Stovall
boosted the Cleveland Maps along at
a breakneck speed the latter part OF
the season OF 1911 he was the pride OF
Cleveland and the fans there threat
ened to mutiny when he was sent 70
st. Louis and Harry Davis made
posNh VI mana SillE. the Maps. But at
st. Louis. where Stovalf has failed 10
bring that second rate club out OF a
second rate position, he Is again
dub.
Only Frank Chances wonderful rep.
utation established when he was lead
ing the champion Cubs. OF Chicago
Keeps him clear OF the most violent
kind Of hammering Harry Wolver
a % nj in
endeavored to bring the Yanks ont az
a.rut In 1912. He failed and he was
fWmediately let 60 he himself being
satisfied not to fill ont the two years
WoIvertcn was minor league boss
VINO had been success in the bushes
When he failed in the majors he was
sent Dack Immediately He is stlll
making good in the Pacific Coast
league.
Jake Stahl was repeatedly called
the biggest man in baseball I'm 1912
when he was helping the Red Sox
cDmb 70 the American league pennant
oyer the Athletics, crippled bv the IN.
condftion or Bender and Oldring But
now that the Sox have fallen bv rho
whysid, he is fred ingnonimiouslv
and substitute found for him out
HUDnHrN
that instead of being a wonderful
manager Stah was just first rate
nrst baseman, who left most OF tho
oR.thefieid management TO his sumo
riOr. Hmmy McAleer, president Of the
chIb. and lot OF the on-the-Aeld man
afement to Bill Carrigan. now the
real boss.
So u Is easy TO see why Jennings is
picked uron by story hunters as a
good subject for a rnew manager"
yarn. IL Is said that he found the
Tigers bunch OF good material I'm
! 1907 and put pep enough in them TO
B win for three years straight. Which
10 an very true and II furnished with
the right material again Jennings will
put pep enough IN it again 70 win an.
other pennant.
Tssry and Jones Matched.
NEWCASTLE. Pa. July 26.-"Bat.
fling Terry OF Pittsburgh and Tom.