Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-14

The new third big league is almost
assured, and Newark is to be in
c1uded in the circuit. This much |
well-known baseball man al the Polo
Grounds Saturday afternoon. The
Feds are going TO compromise, / am
told, and they are going to join hands
with the International League mag
mates and form a strong circuit in
the East. In the West. too. / am
Informed, there will be sort of get
together league. The league in the
League, and Edward G.. Barrow will
be the president. The league in the
West will retain the name of the
American Association. The clubs In
son will be, according to the present
plans, Newark, Brooklyn, Baltimore
and Rochester in this section, and
Pittsburgh, Toronto, Buffalo and q
city to be decided upon In the other
section. The West will do about the
same thing, with teams in st. Louis.
Cleveland and Chicago. 1t is be-
lieved that this method will bring
about harmony and put baseball back
where it belongs.
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The days of Frank Chance, as leader
of the New York Americans, are over.
His resignation. to take effect Sep
TENDER Is, has been accepted, and his
line will be up tomorrow. Chance has
planned to motor to his home in Cali
fornia and 1t is doubtful if Frank
Farrell, his employer, will make an
effort to delay him. Instead, it would
seem, Mr.. Farrell is only too willin
that the manager has decided to go.
Chance leaves the Yankees at his
own request. but he leaves with a
blot on his reputation. He came to
New York as the Peerless Leader.
but he goes hither as a peerless
Failure" He has managed neither
wisely nor well, and lays bare his
incompetence by blaming others for
his own inability to make good The
Chance who managed and won foi
that mismanaged and lost for New
York He had fair show to make
good, but he couldn't do. He canno
say he was interfered with by any
one connected with the club, but he
plays the baby act by trying to hooK
the blame on Arthur Irwin. one OF
the scouts of the team. Chance wa
a big fellow once, but now he is
about as small as they make them.
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Chance failed in New York because
he didn't play the game in the RICH
way. He fired his old men prom!scu-
ously and he couldn't hope to fin their |
places satisfactorily with brand-new |
material. He would allow a big
Lacquer to go today and expect a
busher to take his place tomorrow.
He told his players, old and young
that it was up to them to make good
and not up to him to show them how
to make good. He abused most of his
men on the bench and others he
wouldn't talk to at all. He scared the |
recruit and he bluffed the veteran. |
He fined Ray Caldwell, the Yankees |
best pitcher, something like 5000, and |
finally drove him away from the club. |
1t is believed, though, that Caldwell |
will join the Yankees just as soon as
Chance gets through. which will prob
ably be tomorrow, despite his declara-
ton that he would remain the BALM, 20
of the season and manage the team
next year, as we'll.
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Chance will leave the Yanks if Mr..
Farrell has any judgment at all to
guide him. The manager has ten
dered his resignation, and he has
abused his employers. He called Mr..
Farrell vile names, and he also turned
his guns on William A. Devery, famll-
iarly. known as big Bill and the
"best police chief New York ever had"
All this occurred in front of the
clubhouse after the game on Satur-
day, and was listened to and witt
messed by New York and other news
paper men who reported the game be-
tween the Yanks and the Philadel-
phia Athletics Mr.. Farrell accepted
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