Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-11-28
William S. Devery Is Now the
Power Behind lnternation-.
al League Club.
OTHER SPORTING GOSSIP


New York. Special: The most fa-
nous policeman this country eve
knew is now a full fledged baseball
club owner. William s.. Devery-yes.
It's Big Bill Devery-is now the power
behind the throne in the Jersey City
club, of the International league.
Devery's career has been one
Astounding with interest, and 1t Is not
80 very long ago h his name was @
the tip of ~everybody's tongue. He be-
gan as a patrolman in New York and
worked himself upward until he be-
came Chief Of Police Devery.' Of New
York, during the famous administra-
ton OF Mayor Var Wyck, In the late
'9Os.
His entry into baseball dates from
his acquaintance with young Thomas
A. Fogarty. a fan OF the dyed-in-the-
wool variety, when they met one sum-
lmer at Far Rockaway beach on Long
Island. Fogarty, hen a youthful grad
uate of FOrdham cOlleged, talked base
ball with the chief by the hour. Frank
Farrell. head Of the New York Ameri-
cans. is also q close friend Of Devery.
aid 1t is believed the former cop
bought stock in the Yankees as his
first baseball venture.
Seeing then that there was a likely
Held for both employment and invest
ment. Of capital in Jersey City. Devery,
wealthy and retired. decided to get In
on" the Skeeter club. and bought out
been business manager for the Boston
Red. Sox. Devery paid $12,600 for this
stock. half of the total issue, to give
his young friend Fogarty q chance to
show that he could carry his baseball
IDEAS to financial success: Next no
Of the club. that the 9keeters were
heavily in debt and he Nillis) refused
TO pay, 30 Dsvery dug $1,000 deeper
into his jeans and wiped u the La
bilities.
But the club was losing money.
playing to empty stands at every game.
after dropping into last place. 30 the
.chief' decided to get q controlling i'm
terest in order to run things different
~. He made up his mind to buy
enough Of Lillis' stock to mako. Fo-
garty president, 80 he dug down again
and, all together. has put himself $780,
600 In the hole to establish his position
in S~keeterville.
Fogarty, now the club president, has
persuaded Devery that the only way to
make money in Jersey City 10 to build
up q brand new team. SO big Bill'
has promised to stand by and put up
all the jingling coin necessary to make
the venture q financial and artistic
success.
In the old political days. Devery
made famous this remark: "Touchin'
on and appertainin' to that matter I re-
u . to talk" This has been his policy
in the baseball matter up to the last
few days.
The next question IL as to who will
manage h Skeeters next year One
guess would be that Mike Donlin. now
q member OF the club. and at present q
member OF Johnny McGraw's tourists.
ought to make good managerial tim
Der.
Anyway, baseball can now boast az
one of Its most enthusiastic workers
the best chief OF police New York ever
had" to quote ex-Mayor Van Wyck.
The Cincinnati Reds have bought
from Montreal q pitcher named Robert
CouchInar. II he shows any signs OF
laziness, watch the fans and baseball
writer's get after that monicker.
DOME Bush. the little Detroit short
stop. nOminates a newcomer to the list
Of greatest pitchers in the game" He
says Death Valley Jim Scott Of the
White Sox ~outclasses Walter johnson.
Good night! But he adds that his
opinion Is based entirely on the fact
that he never has been able to get a
hit off Scott with men on bases. III
he isn't the greatest Of them ALL" says
Bush, The at least ls my link"
A fan asks in what towns outside
their present berths Connie Mack and
John McGraw have played professional
ball. Mack's career began 1t Meriden,
Conn. Then came Hartford. Washing
ton, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Milwaukee and
philadelphia, where he now II. Nc
Graw's professional career run thusly:
Clean, N. T.. Baltimore. st. Louis Ma
tfOnals. Baltimore Americans, New
York Nationals. Mack was born al
Br0okfield. Mass in 1862, and Nc
Graw at Truxton, N. T., In 1878.
Beating the rules will always be the
fond dream Of the "brainsmen" in al
forms OF sport. Baseball leaders con.
stantly are trying to do IL, and the same
goes to hockey. polo, basketball. boxing
lin fact. nearly every game. But the
n that stands at the head in this re.
spect is football. The principal reason
experts n anywhere near the full
possibilities OF the rules which ART
changed so often one finds 1t difficult
to keep rack Of them.
Three teams stand out this year In
evolving methods OF doing things that
nevertheless are allowed through literal
interpretation-the. Carlisle Indians
Rutgers College and University Of
Michigan. And as usual the men
whose minds have figured these out are
classes among the foremost students OF
the game-Glenn Warner. Foster San.
ford and Fielding YOst.
The rules allow one man OF the side
with the ball to be In motion toward
his own goal at the moment the bal
Is put into play. The purpose Of THU
IL to make possible quick formation
for kicks and forward passes. But POI
Warner finds a different use for It. HI
has n Indian end shift away out. ther
come running In on q diagonal. shout
ing q bunch Of Indian Jargon. When hi
reaches the proper point he shouts
the bail at the same instant he swerve.