The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-19
HUGH JENNINGS
IS IN HARD LUCK
Queer Fate PuTSueS the Leader
of Detroit Tigers.
HIS DISCARDS MAKE GOOD

Let Go Has Performed Creditaby or
Turned Out to Be a Star With An
other Club.
Any manager who can win three
major league remnants in six years
and finish lower than third only once l
in this period must have class. Hughey |
Jennings made such a record in De
troit, Hughey is a prince of good fel-
lows and one of the most successful +
managers of the last decade. McGraw,
Mack, Chance and Clarke are the only .
big league managers who have won .
more pennants than "Ee-Yah," but /
these four men have been in the mana /
gerial field longer than Hughey.
However smart a manager Jen- /
nings is, he is nevertheless the Santa /
| Claus of the big leagues. Hugh has +
passed up enough talent to recruit a
| full f1edged all star team. 1t seems
| that whenever the boss of the Royal
| Bengals labels a youngster n. G. and
casts him adrift into the cold, cold
world the kid Immediately proceeds to
develop into a star.
Among the stars who have been per-
mitted to drift out of the Tiger corral
during the Jennings regime in Detroit
are jeff Tesreau, now of the New York
Giants; Jimmy Archer of the Chicago
Cubs, Birdie Cree and Jack Warhop Of
the New York Americans. Bob Bescher
and George Suggs Of the Cincinnati
Reds and Ira Thomas.
Perhaps the best player Jennings
permitted to get away from him is
Archer, the crack catcher of the Cubs.
"Squatting Jeems" caught for the Ii
gers in 1907, but his bingling proves
did not make much of a hit with Jen-
ninss. Archer only hit .119 for Jen-
nings in eighteen games, so Hughey
sold the prize catcher to Buffalo. From
the Bisons Jimmy went to the Cubs
and has been a star ever since.
jeff Tesreau hung his hat in De-
troit locker for about ten days in 1909.
The Ozark mastodou in that year was
hurling for an Arkansas State league
team when the circuit blew up.
Neither Birdie Cree nor Jack War
hop ever wore Tiger toggery. but they
were the property of the Detroit club
in the winter of 190S-19O9. Both men
had made fine records with Williams
port in the Tristate league. and Jen-
i nin&S-R picked them =up---HuEh. however
thought he would like to have George
Moriarty, then a Highlander. to play
; ! third base for his team, and he offered
Stallings his WilliamspOrt recruits for
the song writer. StaIlings promptly
accepted the offer, and it was one OF
the most advantageous deals the big
chief made when he was the boss on
the hilltop. Needless to say, Chance
would not trade Cree and WARRIOR for
a dozen Moriartys.
Cincinnati fans especially have Tea-
son to be thankful to Hughey, as he
furnished them with two stars of the
Redland club-GeOrge Suggs, the star
; pitcher Of the Reds, and Bobby Bes-
/ cher, the brilliant outfelder and lead
ing base stealer in the National league
Suggs hung on with Detroit full
season-19OS-bu Jennings cid not
think much of his ability and passed
| him back to the minors. Suggs Joined
, the Reds in 1910 and has been stat
| ever since he was trusted with regular
= assignments. Bescher, like Cree anC
, WARRIOR. never played with the Tigers
though he was the property of the De
troit club for one year. Jennings di,
not think enough of the speed marve
q even to give him n trial.
Ira Thomas was not considered NOR
s. than Il fair catcher when he was witt
Detroit and Jennings sold the big fel
$ low to Mack in 1909. Since Connie tool
Ira in hand he has been one of tn
e leading catchers in the game, though
his sun is beginning to set. It may b
! remarked that Thomas caught the onl
game won by the Tigers from the Cub
" in the worlds series in 1907 and 1908.
However. Jennings is not to bIam
for letting all this talent get ava
. from him. Every manager is oblige
to cut down his squad in the spring
p and as the Tigers were champions tn
first three years Hughey managed theI
ar he necessarily preferred the old boy
who were delivering to untried young
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