Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-09
CHANCE TO TAKE
MANAGEMENT OF
. THE H|CHLANDERS
"Peerless Leader" of Base
ball World Signs Three
year Contract With New
York Americans.

Chicago, Jan. 9.-The American
league brought out its heaviest battal
ions yesterday and captured Frank
Chance. The peerless leader was
signed to manage the New York club
at salary ana interest which amounts
to Sl20.000 for the three years for which
he signed-the greatest sum ever paid
a baseball player OF this sum, $75,-
600 is salary and the remainder the es-
timated value of per cent of the net
earnings of the club,
The days or negotiation between
Chance and Frank Farrell. owner Of
the New York club, were brought to 4
climax YESTERDAY afternoon, when the
principals quietly visited the office of
~. d. Johnson, president of the league.
PThere they came to their agreement
after less than an hours conference.
ANA there the announcement that
Chance had signed was made.
Gentlemen, let me introduce the
new manager of the New York Ameri-
cans" said Mr.. Farrell to the report
ers as lie and Manager Chance
emerged from the CONFERENCE.
What part the league had in con-
GLIDING the negotiations, of course, was
ever, that President Johnson had
stayed aYay from the meeting of the
national commission at Cincinnati, and
that the announcement of the conclu-
sion of the negotiations was given out
only after the head Of the organization
had been consulted Rumor, therefore,
concluded that the Johnson circuit had
decided the opportunity TO get Chance
haI
solved to back Farrell in any propo-
sition he might make
Both Farrell and Manager Chance
kept secret the actual details of their
conferences Chance candidly admitted
that he had suffered change of heart
since he arrived in Chicago after his
journey from the east, and said he had
been offered terms which no one in his
right mind could refuse.
II honestly did not expect to sign,
he said last night. when | came
fully mad made up my mind that my
interests lay i'll the west and that |
could not afford to leave them. AT least
for Il year. Mr.. Farrell. however, made
inducements much better than ! had
dreamed of, and even excluding my
love fer the game as factor | could
not decline them.
Il am not al liberty to give out the
terms. but | can say ! am TO get the
greatest sum anybody ever got for pi-
loting a baseball club, and / am going
to come as near earning It as can
The terms, learned from an authori-
tative source, though not announced
officially, include for Chance q contraei
to manage the club for three years al
1000 a year and per cent of The
clubs net earnings for the three sea.
sons The latter. it is believed, vii
amount to $4,000 annually, perhap:
more.
Chance will assume active manage
ment of the team Feb. Il, when he vii
reach New York to attend the Ameri
can league meeting. He will arrang,
then the details for the training trip
The New York club will have it's spring
workout i'll the Bermudas, where Far
rell has engaged cricket ground fo
the diamond practice.
Plans for .Chauce day in Chicag,
l already are under way. The New Yorl
team will make it's first visit to Co
AmisSey park III May, and It's new man
lager will then be honored here. Ameri
kan league leaders, including Prcsiden