The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-09
HAL SHER|DAN'S
weekly LETTER.
Charley Murphy is Saying Fl Told You
so'' Although it is Too Early
to Crow Much
Yet.
AID WoLGAsT's WEALTH
Pusillst is Said to Have Sailed Away
100000, All Made With
His Boxing
Gloves.
AID WoLGAsT'S WEALTH
Pusillst is Said to Have Sailed Away
5000, 900. All Made With

United Press1
| NEW YORK, May 9.-Charley Muir.
ply. no doubt, is saying, Il told you
SO" and Windy City fans OF snap
Judgment may agree that he OF the
brilliant vests didn't go SO far wrong
In letting the Peerless Leader go.
However, Chubby Charley and others
Of his ilk have the dope al wrong.
Baseball teams are not made In day,
/ especially when the task is complicat.
ed by the builder being forced to tear
down the tottering walls before he
| can start on new foundation.
Frank Chance took charge of the
New York Americans this season I'M
der terrible handicaps. The Yanks
were about as badly disorganized and
demoralized and as jinx-riden a crew
! as has ever represented major lea
que town-no, not even excepting the
/ decrepit machine which represents
/ Boston in the National League Es-
prit de corps among the Yanks in 1912
was about as noticeable as 1t was
! among the Mosleins who were goose
! egged by the Bulgars at the Chatalia
Notifications. The Yanks had SO de-
! Perforated that they had less real
fighting spirit as a team than docile
i doe which has been trapped by hum
CRY tiger, in spite of the presence OF
i several grand masters of the game in
their midst. Their pep" was not.
~ ioe,
4 confronted Frank Chance when he &C.
cepted charge of the Yankees and
4 $4,000 yearly stipend. Because of
/ his record as a player-leader, 1t was
not strange that some of the Yankee
fans just sat themselves down and
waited for Chance to lead his 1913
team through the American League
second division clubs like 13-inch
shell through the sides of tiny tor
pedo boat And when that impossible
thing didn't happen, these snapjudg-
ment fans and even some of the base
ball writer's, who should know better,
began to hint that the Peerless Lead
er had stacked up against an insol-
uble problem However, the fair
minded are giving Chance his chance
. And it is rot more than fair that ne
should be given the entire year in
, which to show. He has said all along
that If he finishes better than sixth
this season he would feel that he has
accom- lished wonders. If he does
and il it is possible, Chance is the
4 "a . hot hc
Yankees will be a team to be recA
oned with seriously in 1914, not as g
probably contender for the pennant
but as a team that may prevent ar
easy march to that goal over Its
:, shambiing form as was the case las
. year.
Give Chance time. He's up agains
stiff proposition. and the matter o
). finding logical berths for himself AMI
Hal Chase on the same outfit. Ism
the worst OF his many difficulties
There lis a roomful of others. Char
lev Murphy and those inclined to rea
son like him had best wait and no
laugh too soon.
4 And now Tommy Murphy is com
ing along to add TO the much men
toned worries of Willie Richie.
, Murphy's defeat OF AID Wolgast II
!. San Francisco some time back give
:. Tommy the right to expect a matcl
= with Champion Richie. But no man
!. right always gets him a fight in tn
, snort game these days. It's more like
/. lv that a mans right would keep hir
= from getting a fight, il the pursue
I one happens to care more for gol
j. than the glory he might gain throug
meeting that right head on, An
Ritchie's tendency TO match himsel
IN with Leach Cross and others G
the dentists kind makes 1t look liz
:, Harlem Tommy Murphy will have
10 wait longer even than VIII Joe Ri
:, ers. the Mexican, who, 10 these man
months has been pfnfng to swa
>. punches with Richie. In the NEAR
- time AID Wolgast had best grid up hi
!, loins. count up the 100000 he
!. said to have saved for damp da
i while he was the title holder. and &
the Britt real estate stunt, for Ad
m day has about past.
Id
bit There is no doubt that the intern
IN tionai tennis matches for the Davt
ut cup this year will bring out the bel
competitions in decade. The col