El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-07
Chance'sDemands Appear Exorbitant
Peerss Leader Salary and New
York Fans VIII Approve f He Can Winning Team
OF
SAM DA NE
By SAM CRANE.

- FEW YORK, n. Y, Jan. Pick
ing oranges on a southern Cali
- fornia ranch is juicy business, no
ooupt; but, according to Frank Chances
ideas. as advanced by him in a letter
to business manager W Williams, o. the
Cubs, Frank is going 10 get EuCh
richer and jucier Job by knocking cut
and picking up baseDaIIs Tor the yam
KEGS the coming season ana, incIdeH-
tally, doing some managerial work for
the aforesaid NankeeS-lG his terms are
accepted by Frank Farrell
To many people Chances demands
appear eXOrbltant-and then a rev. In
base ball. as in every Otner line OF bust
ness, 1t is acknowledged that any man
is entitled to get all he can, ana as a
general thing it is thOught-or mag
ined, at Ieast-that a man is worth all
he can get but still there is a limit TO
what a man can earn
Either Frank Chance has an exag-
gerated estimate of his own worth as
a manager or else he has an in0rd1-
nate ambition to be paid = salary that
scars far ana away above mat ever
paid any baseball man for similar
Wants to Ogtshine HeGraw.
Chance has long been anNiously de-
sirOUs fleeing paid salary that eX-
/. ceeds the $4,000 drawn by manag ger
A.cGraw, of the Giants-an amount that
is the tOp-notch mark of baseball si-
pends Frank sees his opportunity to
reach the goal Of his ambition BY nav
ing the owner Of the Yankees come TO
his terms.
But in the long negotiations that
may or may not lead Up to Cnance
being engaged by Farrell the delay has
tended to dull the edge OF the mucn
talked OF deal and to put the ex-CUb
leader in a rather unfavOrable light
among local fans and friends of The
Yankees.
A big salary for Chance was ex-
pected but not one of such immense
proportions that il would make fandOm
and baseballdom gasp as they nave
since Chances letter to Williams was
made public
There is no doubt that Farrell an
ticiDated going down into his jeans
very deep to secure Chances services,
but that the eX-Murphy1te would ASK
for the earth and a slice OF the enllre
solar system was a wee bit surprising,
to draw it mildly.
However, if Chance could live up in
a managerial way 10 the demand Tor
the salary he makes. Frank Farrell
would be warranted perhaps in agree
ing TO them. But the demand would
cause Farrell to think that Chance
would pull the Yankees out OF me
1913 race nothing less than champions
If Chance can do that, well and good,
and the biggest salary ever paid TO
a baseball manager" would be mere
bagatelle-
But can Chance do that2 His repu-
tation while with the Cubs as their
head shows that he was entitled to the
title he acquired as the Peerless
Leader" but when he took charge OF
them he had by reason Of Frank See
lees foresight almost a ready made
team Sheckard and SteinfeIdt were
secured after Chance became manager
but Charley Murphy has taken unto
himself the credit for making the
deals for those two players, who IN
/ creased the batting strength Of the
I Cubs to championship class. But still
that takes away no credit from
: Chances great record
For several years Chance proved him
/ self a leader Of men. and a brilliantly
successful one de had splendid lieu