Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-15
MURPHY PREPARES
TO CLEAN HOUSE
Owner and Manager of West
Side Club to Weed Out
Backshding Men.
TROJAN HOLDS POSITION
Maenate. Back from Europe, Denies
Report That Tinker Will Lead
Cub Team comirs Year.

! Chicago. Ill. Dec. l5.-These be
dark days for backsliding Trojans.
President Charles w. Murphy, just
back from Erin, Paree and other points
| of interest across the bounding main,
allowed as much last night while ris-
! ing TO queer the report from St. Louis
which had John J. Evers, present
skipper of the cub legion. booked to
wear the tinkling tinware. Murphy laid
especial emphasis upon his denial of
( this story and branded it as too ridicu-
/ lous TO be given moments considera-
I ton.
! According TO the cub mogul Evers
will continue as boss of the steering
gear another season. The scoop"
from the Mound City named Joe
Tinker to succeed the Trojan. AS for
the latter feature Murphy hgd moth
ing to say. He let il be known, how
ever, that Evers, who has been rusti-
eating at Camp Totem. sporting rem
devious. 20 miles from his home in
Troy, y. Y. would arrive in Chicago
tomorrow primed to sit in at a star
chamber session which has been called
for the purpose of honing the official
pruning klife.
Veterans to Be Dropped.
Prior TO his getaway from Ireland
Murphy stated he proposed dropping
no fewer than seven players with the
view OF upbuilding his sagging ma
chine. As Evers remained in the
tangled wildwood during Murphy's
breif sojourn in New York the mag
nate and manager were unable to get
together for a discussion of WAYS and
means whereby the reconstruction /
scheme might be set a-going. /;
The shake up scheduled to come off
before spring trainin gtime, which is
listed to start Feb. or therea bouts ,
promises TO be even more sweeping /
than any previous efforts by the cub 4
officials along these lines Those 1
royal rooters who journeyed down to
the Twelfth street terminal one bleak /
night last February to bid the cubs
adieu on their departure for Tampa
hardly recosni ed the galaxy OF talent
assembled in West Side fighting re-
gala six months later-before the
1913 campaign had ended.
OF the 10 highly touted fingers
taken south-Cheney. Lavender. Reul-
bach, Richie. Leifeld. HUMPHREYS,
Toney, Powell. Smith. Sommers.
Pierce and Msdden-only FIVE were in
az the wind-up of the flag marathon
The survivors were Cheney. Laven-
der. HUMPHREYS. Pierce and Smith.
One, and possibly two. of these surv-
ing experts may be cut adrift in the
wedding out plans being formulated
Young blood now on the roster added
20 one or two other seasoned stars at
present members of other National
eague teams will be represented on
he cub twirling corps.
Few Stand Acid Test.
Five catchers-Archer. Needham. ]
8resnahan. Heckinger and Cotter-, +
we're given the uncover at Tampa, :
md two of these birds failed to stand 2
he acid test. Inielders galore were I
'ooked for regular or substitute duty. I
he flock consisting of Evers. Safer, 2
BridweH Corriden. Phe- q
an. Mcdonald Craig and Berhammer. t
tut of the lot only the first named six
emained for the big show. :
Assembled in the outfield during the {
onditioning season were Schultz. '
each. Miller. Sheckard, Good. Knis- 5
er, Clymer and Mitchell. Cy Williams
ater reported. OF this squad Schultz. &
each. Williams, Miller and Good re ::
NAMED. h
That several of the young PLAYERS J
dded TO the fold after Sept l will be s
iven preference in the training cam i.
align is the dope leaking out Of cub q
eadquarters for President Murphy is a
tronG for Isabelle, n pitcher. Heating c
nd Mollwit';. infielders and Allison. an r
utfielder. In addition the cub chief o
xpects some great deeds from Jimmy
Ohnson- the Eriscn nuthnIdar --hn u