The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-22
Fans Delighted at Willingness
of Farrell to Spend Money
For Players
BEST BOSS IN WORLD
CAN'T WIN WITH DUBS
Chance Did No Better With
Poor Material Than Did
Harry WOlvertOn
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

The baseball world wants TO see
Frank Chanceup In the first division
next year. II hardly hopes for him
TO win an American league pennatn
but 1t does want to see him pull New
York out Of the rut that 1t has been
In for several years.
Fandom Is with Chance and his
Yankees because Frank Merrill, own
er OF the club, has shown his willing
ness TO go out and buy players from
the minor leagues by the wholesale al
big prices. and Chance has given them
chances TO break In with the team at
his first opportunity.
Whenever losing magnate opens
his Golfers and lets flow golden
stream that bears him new players
the public Is with him and wishes
him well. This Is what Farrell has
been doing
The Highlanders have with them
one Of the highest priced infielders In
the country, Fred Maisel. OF the Balti.
more Orioles, until recently. Maisel
Ii said to have cost the Yankees ST.
900. Just what he really did take out
OF the New York strong box is hardly
settled by that report, but 1t is GER
tain that he Is one OF the highest
priced minor leaguers bought recently.
McHale, a pitcher, has ben pur-
chased from Jersey City for a price
said to be $4,000. This 10 probably
nearer the real cost OF the player
than Maisel's $4,000
Cook, an outfielder, purchased from
the Austin, Texas. club, is not as
high priced man as either OF
two mentioned but he Is touted as
player who will be worth more TO the
Highlanders. Cook Is described by
his friends as very Cobbesque.
After sacrificing Hal Chase and find
that Borton was no good 70 him at
first base. Chance has placed VIII
liams, q first sacker. purchased from
Galveston, on the initial cushion.
Chance said the last time that he
appeared In Detroit that he would
return with O much changed club. He
still is open to further changes In case
the men he has now do not suit him.
The experience of Chance is an
other illustration OF the fact that a
great manager cannot win a pennant
the major leagues.
That Chance is one OF the greatest
bosses In the game goes without say
ing, since his leadership OF the Cubs.
But with the Yankees he did no bet
ter than Harry Wolverton, a minor
league boss, who was willing to quit
at the end Of his first year In the big
league and go back to the Pacific
coast
However, with Chance at the helm
Frand Farrell has had enough conf
dence in the pilot OF his club TO go
out and spend money for him lavishly
to bring new players. He did not have
that same confidence in Wolverton,
which made Harry's row all the hard
or to hoe.
II the major leagues were infested
with managers who didn't know their
business, a real crafty manager might
step In with q second rate team and
cop a pennant. But with every man
ager a topnotcher. the one TO win must
have Al material to work with.
will agree with Chance In his predic-
the New York Giants and Philadel-
phia Athletics will go to the club get
ting the better Of the breaks In luck.
A short series Is never decisive IN
baseball, but longer series for the
champions would not sustain interest
enough to make 1t pay financially. so
the series Is kept short and the win
ner Is accorded the title of worlds
champions, whether it deserves it or
not.
Chance believes that the most sue
cessful method Of holding long
series would be to play seven games
In two of the cities contending for
the title, and several others In other
major league cities.
The rain OF yesterday gave the
members of the Detroit and New
York clubs a chance TO take In the
races at Windsor, but II forced them
to play a double-header here today
In spite Of the fact that another IL
scheduled for tomorrow. Both start
at las.
The Detroit and New York play
ers have been invited to attend the
performance at the Garden theater
this evening when a reel showing
McGraw and Mathewson Of the New
York Giants In a photo play, Break
ing Into the Big League" will be
presented. George Moriarty's songs