The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-02
MANAGER OF OGDEN
TEAM IS A VETERAN
"Kitty' Knight Has Played
Professional Baseball for
Many Years.
Drafted BY BIG LEAGUE
Cardinals and Phil1ies Both
Gave Him Brief Tryouts
in 1910.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
OGDEN, March with the receipt
OF telegram, from tKitty" Knight
nouncing that he would leave Berke-
ley, CAL, for Ogden on March 6, Pres
ident A. P. Bigelow of the local base
ball club, as told in yesterdays Trib-
me, stated that the selection Of knight
as manager for the season of 1913 is
practically assured. knights message
was IN answer to a letter proposing
terms but he has not yet affixed his
signature TO a contract.
In the selection o. knight as head
of Ogden S Union association club the
directors believe that they have secured
a man who is competent in every way
70 handle the local club to the best pos
slble advantage TO both the city and
players. The popularity Of knight
among the members of last years club
was one OF the strong points consid-
cred by the local magnates. His long
experience in professional baseball,
also IN that of manager, induces the
opinion of President Bigelow and his
associates that knight is in every way
qualified TO direct Ogden's baseball
affairs from the standpoint Of club
manager.
Manager Knight, who seems to
have NO given name other than exit
ty.D has played professional baseball
Ior the past seven years. He was born
entered professional baseball He is
2s years old For two years Knight
was with the Lake Charles, La, club
Of the Gulf Coast league. That WIS
~ 1906 and 1907, being sold at the
close of the 1907 season to the Albany
club OF the New Yorl, State league.
After playing with that club for two
years he was drafted in the fan of
ls9g oy; the st. Louis Nationals,
club until the middle of 1910 Knight
was sent back to Albany and at the
close of the season was purchased by
the Philadelphia club of the National
league. BY the PhiIadelphia club he
was sold 10 Oakland, playing with that
club throughout the 1911 season and
bad signed with the Sacramento club
for. 1912 when he joined last season s
Ogden club and started playing for
McCloskey in June He was. held on
the reserve list of the local organiza-
tion for 1918.
In addition to this record with pro.
fcssional clubs during the summer sea.
son, Knight has played ball or man.
aged a club every winter since 1906
Uurlng the winter of that Year he had
charge of baseball club in Mexico
CITY.
The following two winter seasons he
managed the Guaymas club in Mexico.
: II was during his winter stays in Mex
ico that knight attained fame as a
bull.fighter, according to his cid friend,
Carl Zamlocb. 1t is said that Knight
often entered the arena in public to
participate in uIl-fighting exhibi-
tions for the benefit of the Guaymas
club.
During the present winter Knight
has been PLAYING ball IN and around
Berkeley, participating in games with
many Of the prominent major leaguers.
He is in excellent condition and would
be ready for slab duty If the Union
season opened tomorrow.
Unless present plans are upset tho
Ogden twirler will take charge as
manager of the local club npou his
arrival within the next ten days. I'm
the absence Of regular manager. Sec
retary Angus Kennedy has mot onIy
sent contracts to all of Oeden's re-.
serve players, but has also signed sew.
eral promising Youngsters. It Ia ex.
pected that Knight win be in posi-
tion to add a few names To the LIST
Of Ogden recruits when he arrives in
the city.