Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-29
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Happenings 1SPortdoln

thJt they would prefer 10 be Il hero
in small town rather than II com
paratiVe unknown In Il big city. Year
after year these players stick to the
minors and refuse TO take advantage
| OF chance to move up when the OPP
portunity presents itself
another player of tits L pe has been
found oct on the coast He is young
t.lincr Iober. He is (. crack outteIder
OF the Portland. Ore. team. Walter
Mccreedie wanted To send him t. the
Cleveland club. To his surprise | ubcr
positively refused to 20 To the Maps
According t. McCreedie. the youngster
mas all the qualifications OF u ma jor
'ea2uor. but lie has no L1tbtioa to shine
among the Bis league stare.
Buddy Ryan, the former Cleveland out
heider who was let OUT by Manager Fir
ming man, is rather severe in his criti-
cisn of the Maps leader. whom he as
serts is unit to manage a ball team.
here is the latest handed ~ Ryan 10
Brny:
Joe Birmingham is such q joke as d
manager that | would he nlliug To bet
that he doesn't last out next season.
" hat he knows about base ball could
BE- written u postage stump. II we'd
had manager Ike Harry Davis last
season We would have won tn pennant
~ fifteen games.
birmingham is the poorest excuse for
4 manager in the American League. The
1Iti'i VI pttbEi LOOT HoutI ittAA q Stjit
4 blush OF shame over the face Of any
class & manager. He was so much of q
farce that the bali players finally threw
up their hands in disgust and got aIoug
the best they could without listening TO
him
he pati play crs can't select the pitch
els. a1iu here il where We Tell down We
had = good st:'f IF hurlcrs and snoulA.
have brre@cd ~ on the lit " it'll that pen
n;tit. W., showed what We could do in
tn" Observation-Disclosures series. W. lost
at least thirty games - poor judgment in
working pitchers
Davis IS one Of tlic t5g;lini.s 81 bail plsV
efs III the profession ttld could have done
81 lot with the club. We know pretty well
that Birmingham Knocked him out Of :,
job by going the rounds aud carry ing
tales
'.birinins nam got sore this 5ear he
cause edged him out ri his regular iou
il enteT1icid He put rae out there and
! Went 50 well that he could not take M,
cat in spite cf the fact that he was The.
ntrager. Went ON Il fine hitting ram
page after | got ON II my attack of pn,.u-
monia. must have been hitting
around the 400 zone. But Birth nslIa1i
could not stand il any longer so IL. tu.ti,
me out. He went cut there and was so
at that ic could hardly waddle around
HE has lost the great arm that used
to scare al the hase runners in the
league. and his showing was SO bad
that he had TO take himself out. and
instead OF sending m,. back he stuck little.
Niebold in. Niebnld played Il pretty good
game but didn't hit
birmingham doesn't like any players
from the coast and you know the C.eye-
lard club is full Of them He doesn't
get along with Gregg Il was six weeks
bet re he was put in regularly last sea-
SON
Pretty strange too. for the best left
handler IN the American League. He
used 70 ask Gregg how his arm was, and
Vean would say il was feeling fine, vet
.Birmy' selected somebody else He
worked big, Fakenburs TO death after
..Fa'kv" ha1 won Il few games. Instead
of Giving him Il rest and the others
chance"