New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-19
LEE MACE Is
PICKED TO LEAD
The TIP TOPS
PLAYER Who Deserted the
Cardinals Will Fill
Bradley's Shoes.
YOUNGEST MANAGER
IN BIG LEAGUES
Player.Limit Rule Means feds
Must Turn 104 Ball
TOsserS Adrift.
By HAYWOOD BRoUN.

TOSSerS Adr1ft.
BY HAYWOOD BROUE.
The Brooklyn Tip Tops have the
Youngest manager in the big leagues.
His name is Lee Magee. Robert b.
Ward telephoned the news OF the ap-
monument from Chicago last night,
after long conference with the player.
Inst now Nagee is twenty-five, but he
expects TO be one year older before
tbe Federal League season begins. How
much older he will be when the race
ends is a matter of conjecture
There is much TO recommend Magee
r.. a manager, for, in addition TO hav-
inq shown himself q smart and alert
PLAYER with the St. Louis Cardinals
last season, he has been around the
world with the baseball tourists. Lee
can order a breakfast in French, ne
can read a German timetable, ask the
time of day in japanese and berate an
umpire in clear and convincing English.
With the Cardinals he hit for .2S4
IN ZAP games. Magee is fast man on
the bases, and was one of the cogent
cogs in the st. Louis machine. HIS
appointment ends a managerial prob
lem. which presented almost as many
solutions as the Yankee muddle.
Bill Bradley, the former Cleveland
star. was the leader Of the Tip Tops
last season, and brought the club home
in fifth place. He resigned a few
months after the end of the season.
Magee was signed to a three-year con
tract when he decided to give up or
Kanized baseball. His contract as n
manager covers only one season, how
ever. The new leader of the Tip Tops
Is alert and aggressive and a wise base
ball man in spite Of his youth. HIS
hair is red.
The day Of the buy-a-bale- of-ball-
players is done Every organization
has pledged itself to economy for the
coming season. The National League
has set limit at twenty-one players,
but the Feds have determined on
policy even more radical and will limit
each team TO twenty men. The Ameri-
can League will be bit more liberal.
for Ban Johnson has announced that
the sentiment Of his organization is IN
favor of a roster of twenty-five or
twenty three players per club.
The most thoroughgoing houseclean-
ing will be necessary in the Federal
League, where 104 ball players must
be turned adrift in order to get down
20 the limit. II may be necessary to
carry some Of these along, whether
they play or not, as most of the men
in the independent circuit we're signed
T. contracts for more than one year.
There also is the possibility Of using
the surplus players for minor league
material in case the Feds 90 through
with their scheme TO found several
subsidiary organizations. As for the
National League. there is a movement
under way to ask for a reconsideration
of the player limit rule. Most Of the
managers feel that il will be impos-
sible TO carry any reserve outAeld or
inheld material with a twenty-one-
player limit.
Robert 3. Ward, who has been ap-
nearing first as a friend and then as a
Zoe of the Giants. seems TO have lost
the Christmas spirit which animated
him a week or so ago. According to
word which came from Chicago yester
day, he has not quite decided whether
he will return Vanguard to the Giants
or not.
"We offered Marquard to the
Giants" he is quoted as saying, "if
the New York National League club
would produce a binding contract
signed by him. So far the National
Leaguers have not done so, and we
have Marquard's affidavit that he was
free agent, legally, when he agreed
10 play for US"
The fans OF New York will probably
delay their rejoicing until they are
sure Mr.. Ward is in earnest. The sus-
pense is awful.
Joe Kelley, who led the Toronto club
OF the international League last year,
is to-day's candidate for manager Of
the Yankees. Chicago is sponsor for
the report. Il is pointed out that
Kelley will probably lose his Toronto
job, in which case he will have to do
something or other 70 earn his living.
He is a close friend of Captain Huston.
The only thing known against him is
the fact that ne was once the manager
of the Cincinnati Reds.
Most OF the rumors concerning the
Yankees have been OF q synthetic
nature. but the latest tale concerns a
possible disintegration of the machine
which Chance built. According to
rumor. again Chicago born. Charlie
Comiskey hopes TO swing q deal which
will bring Fritz Msisel, the little third
base star, TO the White SoX.
Comiskey, who is at French Lick
Springs. is in, but he hopes to be up
and around springing new baseball SEN
stations within a day or two. The ar
rival Of Barney Dreyfuss yesterday at
the Indiana resort completes the mem
bership Of the National League sched-
ule committee.
Wesleyan is trying 70 get Kid Elber-
field 70 coach its baseball team next
season.
Paimero, the Cuban left-hander Of
the Giants, pitched a no-hit game In
Havana the other day, and struck out
twelve Of his opponents. He allowed
one run, as two bases on balls were
punched with an error. Palmero's
team won by a score of 10 /.
The most popular indoor sport this
winter seems 70 be Button, button,
who's got the Yankees"
The Braves will tread on familiar
ground even when they move 70 tnelr
new baseball field, for Jim Gaffney
plans 20 transfer the sod OF the dia-
fnond from the old grounds.
A report comes TO New York that
Milton Stock is teaching q dancing
class in Arizona. What with those
legs,
Seemingly, Comiskey was not at all
d,seouraged By the rhyme about the
49, -, - acvatched out both his