Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-15
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The New York Giants are losing
ground and the defeat of Mathewsor
yesterday will not do them any good
1t was another donbe-header day
and the Giants could not make good
Jeff Tesreau won the game, but Ole
Matty was hammered out of the box
and the Giants got their usual ever
break Boston, on the other hand, /,
going right along, winning day after
day. The Braves seem to have the
dash and the spirit and they have
been coming from behind with great
regularity. From this distance the
Braves look like winners. The betting
is to 5 that they will win the pen
nant and z to 5 that they will beat
the Giants.
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II is still some distance from the
home plate. and st. Louis and Chi
cago are not altogether out of it.
Either the Cardinals or the Cubs
could win, but It is doubtful, of
course. Chicago is being touted for
second place, in anticipation Of one
of the leaders cracking. If there is
to be crack it will probably be the
Giants. for they are showing more
weakness than the Braves. When
Matty is driven from the box it is
time to become doubtful.
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The Kearny Elks are planning well
for dots Miller Day" at the Polo
Grounds. A block of seats has been
engaged for September %, when the
st. Louis Cardinals play the Giants
at the Brush Stadium. Great en-
thusiasm is being shown by the Elks
in the Miller celebration, and it is
planned to give the captain Of the
Cardinals diamond-studded Elks'
and a watch chain contain
ing an elk's tooth. Members OF 1850
are giving up freely for the occasion
and Dots Miller Day" promises to
be big affair. The presentation will
very likely be made by Frederick A.
Hartley, exalted ruler of Kearny
Lodge. 1t was Mr.. Hartley who sug-
gested that the lodge honor Brother
Miller.
The Kearny Elks are not the only
ones who are going to take part in
l.. ~
nearby lodges will also be at the Polo
Grounds on the date in question.
Then, too, any number of friends of
John Dots, who are not Elks, will
in the festivities, and
big day all around is looked for.
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Frank Chance will finish his career
with the New York Yankees today.
The team plays its last game of the
season at home this afternoon, and
Chance will direct the play from the
bench for the last time. In day or
tomorrow--Chance will
start for his home in California in an
automobile. He will not be back next
year. For this year. though. he will
receive his salary in full, notwith-
standing that he will not be with the
club the final months of the season.
This has been agreed upon. Frank
Farrell the owner of the Yankees, is
dead willing to give $1,000, the months
salary, to get rid of Chance. 1t will
be big bargain in the long run, and
Mr.. Farrell will be the winner by 1t.
Chance has managed poorly for New
York and he quit before the jig was
up He had another month of this
season and another year, according to
his contract, to run, but he threw up
the sponge before the battle was
over He admitted some time ago to
Mr.. Farrell, it is said, that he couldn't
make good, but when 1t came time to
go he made a supreme effort to blame
someone else for his own shortcom-
ings. The best way to find out Just
how poorly Chance managed the New
York team Is to ask each and every
one of the Yankee players. That will
be getting the information right from
the stable.
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Now that Chance is on the slab,
everybody is trying to dig up or guess
out a manager for the Yanks. Sew
eral names have been mentioned,
among them being John Camel, Jack
Dunn and Harry Davis. II is known
hat Camel is very friendly to the
New York club and that he has been
a recent caller on Mr.. Farrell. 1t is
said, though, that their business rela-
tions had to do with players only. Be
sides, ii is said that Camel has given
his promise to manage the Cleveland
Americans. He is welcome 10 his
lob. which is about on par with
Cincinnati. Camel has been a sue
cessful manager in the minors, and he
will make a good leader for the Maps.
He was the right man for Rochester,
and Charley Chaplin win look a long
way before finding a man to fill his
shoes.
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AS to Jack Dunn, he is one of the
most knowing and aggressive mana
gers in the minors. He has shown his
class on more than one occasion and
he is big enough to take fling with
the majors. Dunn has been a pen
nant- winner in the minors, He won
with Providence and he won with
Baltimore and he would have won
the International League champion
ship this season If the Federal League
had not practically put him out OF
business. But Dunn has not beer