Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-30
MOST EXPERIENCED MAN
 IN FEDERAL LEAGUE
Ned HanIon Has Seen All Sides of
 NatiohaI Game.

Without any idea or intention of knocking the new Federal league or its promoters it can truthfully be said that there is one man among the back CTS Of the organization who has had more baseball experience than all of the others combined. That man is Edward Hanlon.
 When it comes to actual baseball experience, first as a player then as a manager and afterward as a club owner, Hanlon has a record of past achievements that none of the other Federal generals can measure up to. roxy Ned," as he was called in the old days. knows big league baseball from turnstile to fiagpole, and if the new organization can be made a win ner Hanlon looks to be the man to turn the trick.
 In Baltimore. where Hanlon Is to place Federal league team, he man. aged National league team for sev- eral years Later he owned the East ern league team in the same city.
 Hanlon's first move after taking over the Baltimore franchise in the Federal league. was to engage Otto knabe the crack second sacker of the Phillies, as manager of the team. In grabbing the Philly star Hanlon showed that the prospect of a war with the National league did not both CT him.
 War No New Experience.
 A baseball war would be no new experience for Foxy Ned" He was with Pittsburgh when the Brother hood was formed in 1891 and promptly Jumped to the new organization. When the American league made its famous raid on the Nationals, which resulted in the capture of more than 100 play CTS of the older organization Hanlon was managing the Brooklyn team. What the American leaguers did to Hanlon'S team was aplenty. When the new league got all the Brook have much better than 8. Class B outfit left to represent the Dodger city.
 Lost Out in Last Battle.
 Hanlon had won his second pennant for Brooklyn when the three year war between the American and National leagues began. The American leaguers went right after the champion Dodg- CTS and succeeded in landing 22 of the star players. Among the number were Lave Cross. Dave Fultz, Joe Mo Ginnity, Willie Keeler, Harry Howell, Jim Sheckard. Addie Joss, Jim Mo Guire. Charley Farrell, Frank Kitson and Wild Bill Donovan. Some base ball talent that, for one team to lose.
 Back to Baltimore.
 Hanlon struggled along with the remnants of his Brooklyn team until the close of the 1905 season and then retired from big league company. He next turned his attention to the Bal timore team of the Eastern league. For some time previously he had been in control of the Baltimores. During the next four or five years he was sue cessful as a minor league magnate. Then he disposed of his Baltimore in terests to Jack Dunn and retired from the game.
 In making his re-entry into the baseball arena Ned has bumped into another war right off the bat. In the American-Natf muss he got the worst of it in the matter of losing players. In the present scrap he has reversed the situation by doing the kidnapping himself.
 Native of Norwich, Conn.
 Hanlon is a native of Norwich, Conn, and is now in his 57th year. Like the majority of ball players he gained his first experience on the back lots of his native town. His first pro fessional engagement was with the Providence team. Later he played with Fall River, Rochester, Albany, Cleve- land and Detroit, in the order named. It was while with Detroit in 1886 that he first became an important factor in the national pastime. In that year he