Evening journal., 1913-01-11

Inc opinion prevails that Kid Eli
berfeld will have to manage not only
the team at Chattanooga, but the club
president and his own temper as well
ali unruly
Jack johnson. sent by Montgomery
TO the ST. Louis Browns, is facing the
Big Fire for the third time. The
Giants have tried him twice-and
twice turned him back
II is hinted that Charley Ebbets'
reason for having one of the finest
parks IN the world IS that IL harbors
one % the worst teams.
Paul A. Hines who fourished I'm
the days OF "Old Hoss' Radbourne,
and who made the first unassisted
triple play Of all history. Is still alive
and kicking He is in the govern
ment employ at Washington
George Davis, shortstop once for
the Giants. and likewise for the
Cubs. will coach the Amherst hope
luis hllS SPRING
Speaking Of forgotten notables,
what's become of Horace FogeL any
howg
The eight Texas league towns have
had something like fifty managers
thus far in the career OF the organiza-
tion-end It Isn't so old, at that, In
the list OF former managers are not
ed the names Of Ted Sullivan, Tom
Carson, once with Chattanooga
George Leidy George etlnson. Wilson
Matthews, Pop Weikart, a former
Shreveport FIRST baseman. and Dale
Gear, a former Southern league man
ager
Frank Donnelly, a former mana
ger at Galveston. has landed as man
ager Of the Springfield club, Of the
Three-I league.
Bill Meyer. the catcher sold by
Knoxville TO Des Moines, has been at
the game since he was fourteen.
The "Old League Park at Louis
Vile, home OF the Kentucky team
when It was in the National league
and once the stamping grounds Of
Fred Clarke, H. Wagner, and a host
of other stars, is to be cut up into
building lots.
So the Tri-State wants to weed on
the veterans and get all young blood
i'm their ranks. Hal Hal Thati
, strange The magnates seem to for
: get that after all. It is the old veter
/ ans that have held the league to
gether. that It is the veterans whit
had the best batting and fielding av
erages during the past four years
| that It was the veterans who in th
past have swelled the gate receipls
: They won't weed 'em out though.
resolution of that kind will never b
effective. One team would no soone
drop veteran. when the other team
would pick him up. Lest we forget
Bill Clay and his Bwats."
The Tri-State league should chang
: It's name TO the Cheap Skate leagu'
. At their meeting on Friday they pt
the salary down until the league
. about on a par with the clubs pla'
!, ing independent ball on the town lot
/, How the Tr-State league has a
=. nerve to ask protection is a mystor
A few years ago when the league wi
q playing outlaw ball, Lancaster VIZ
paying S4.500 per month salary Thi
3 season they lost less money than
: any Lancaster Intelligence
!, That sound like sour grapes.
The fans in the Tri-State towr
!. that at one time or another droppe
out of the league. apparently alwa,
e want. to get back in the league.
If has been a case of history repeatin
l. itself time and time again in the Ca
.. penter organization, Wilmington
}; Reading, York and Lancaster are fol
& towns that may be cited. Now Wi
1t Transport, the city that won sewers
J.; pennants. has again got the fever an
s. movement has been launched to s
n cure a franchise for the coming SCI
S, son. Williamsport has been withol
, a league ball team for three year
3. During its membership in the IT
state two pennants we're won by u
Millionaires.
= They can have the Trenton fra
!, chise for the price.
Connie Mack of the Athletics VI