Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-08
BRING OUT HAYES
FOR TEARNEY JOB
Davenport Newspaper Urges
Him for President of the
Three-Eye League.
Says the Davenport Democrat:

Jim Hayes of Davenport, president /
OF the Three-Eye league. 1t has a |
natural sounding about it, 1t does /.
not knock one off his feet as other |
names would And so the name of /
the local baseball man, one of the |
leaders of thought in the Three Eye |
league as well as in minor league !
baseball, is being urged for the presi- /
doEcy of the Three-Eye.
There is this one contingency.
J Tearney is now president. But a re-
form wave has struck Tearney amid
ships in Chicago. His guard was
down and he is getting a lot of ad-
verse advertising on it. The charge
/ that of violating the saloon ordinances
( of Chicago-is well known.
In Davenport little has been said
With reference to Tearney and mis-
troubles in Chicago. But elsewhere
in the league the ebullition has start
ed. The pots are boiling in Decatur.
Peoria, Bloomington and elsewhere
They are after his angora. Sentiment
has turned against him. They are
clamoring for his impeachment Var
ious candidates for the place have al
ready been named but none of them
so far have carried weight
Mr.. Hayes has not as yet been con-
suited with reference to it, It is not
known whether or not he would con-
sent TO become q candidate. But his
supporters are confident that he would
be the best that could be secured. In
various quarters of the league he is
favored. He is head and shoulders
above all others in practically every
city in the league, aside from those
towns who are sporting 'favorite
sens 1t might be said that in the
case of Hayes it is not a 'favorite
son proposition; it is a clear cut bus
mess suggestion.
Various qualities make him tho
heir apparent. In the first place he
is known throughout the baseball land
among minor and major magnates
He has made a scientific study OF
baseball as a business and he has
made it pay in Davenport when near
~ all other minor league towns were
hitting the rocks.
Mr. Hayes is the business head of
the local club-the oldest in the
: Three-Eye league. He has been so
ever since the league was launched.
J Last year he conducted the business
end along such lines as to make the
, attendance figures bound beyond any
: other in the league. There was no
comparison with the attendance of the
l local club and those of its nearest
rivals.
Another plan that has brought out
, his baseball knowledge is in the mat
ter of schedule making. In the spring
I OF the year he was assigned to the
task of drafting the schedule for tne
! year He framed one for four trips
d around the circuit and another for
. three, the last one being made merely
=, as an emergency He fought at the
;, meeting for the four-trip schedule.
1T went through all right but wher
= the magnates OF the other clubs got
: home they took a slant at it from the
: standpoint of mileage and kicked
: They did not look at il from the Other
side-that of making short trips ava!
and short stays at home SO wher
,. they passed the three-trip schedule
i with a few notifications they were
L satisfied But on that draft long ser
/ les were necessary.
' 1T bought some teams together TO
+ four games at a Whack. OF course the
attendance suffered and The differen
r clubs were out that much. The in
y vestment OF further mileage woult
l. have been good one, they found out
d The most staunch supporters of thu
y tbree-trip plan admitted that it turnet
out bad.
Down in the southern end of tn
circuit they are bringing all sorts o
charges against Tearney; that h.
draws snug salary for doing moth
irg; that he has never been know
10 answer his OrTespOndence-i
short that his interests In the Three
Eve are confined 10 the money that h
gets out og H. However that may be
it can be shown conclusively that III
Hayes Is just the opposite. One c
the first things he does in the morn
Ing is to look over the mail and fir
back the answers if there be any. An
II you break in on the trend of hi
thought while he is doing this, unles
your business is of importance, yo
can expect a swell time.
Heretofore It has been understoo
that Mr. Hayes has declined TO becom
a candidate for president OF tn
league. But that was some time ag
l. is likely that he would consider
should Teurney be ousted although I
himself has not uttered a sound as
the Tearney case Nor has he bee
approached with reference to beeoI
ing "a candidate should the CtL ag
alderman be ousted."
Jack Boyle Dead.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. s.-jaC
Boyle, at one time famous catch'