The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-22
BUNNY SHORTST0P
HAS MADE GOOD
Dutch Wamtsaans Assured Regular
Place on Cleveland American
Team If He Keeps in
Condition.
EeAN AS MANAGER
May Take Charge Of St. Paui Club
In American Association
Proposed Deal 10 Put
Through.

That Dutch wambsgars. former
~ star shortstop Of the Cedar Rapids
Dummies, who was purchased late Last
season by the Cleveland American
has made good in the big ring Is evi
denced By dispatch which appeared
IN the sporting section OF Chicago
paper yesterday.
TIE dispatch contains statement
from Manager Birmingham Of the
Maps In which he says that his ciuo
next spring win be one OF the small
est ever taken into training By q
major league organization
Birmingham VIII. according to pres
ent plans, take only thirty players
with him when he starts March frst,
for San Antonio. OF this number
Dutch" Is one of the three short
stops.
In explanation OF his determination
to carry such small squad to the
training camp Manager Birmingham
states that he is determined to carry
only those players who WIN be real
assets when the season opens"
Praise fof E31n.
Ned Egan is at least ono exception
to the rule that "A prophet IS With
ont honor only In his own country.
In current issue OF the st Paul Dis
patch, E. R. Hoskins. the well known
baseball scribe, says Charley Comis-
key pulled q boner In selecting Row
land to manage his White Sox nea.
summer. He opines thusly:
II Commy wes resolved to entrust
his team to manager whose expert
ence had been confined to smaller cir
cults. he would have done much bet
ter to have engaged our old friend.
Ned Ezan OF st. Paul, who has blszed
shining trail In the smaller league.
For eleven years Ned has been man
aging Class c and Class D teams and
only once has he finished lower than
third He has won five or six pen-
fast company more players. than any
other minor league manager who can
be named"
In letter received here today from
Manager Esan, who IS winterfng at
his st. Paul home, the Musky chief
ADMITS the truth OF the story which
has been given publication this winter
to the effect that an effort Is being
made to secure Ned's services as boss
Of the ST. Paul American association
team. Ned says, a stock company
has been organized here 10 buy the
St Pau club. II they succeed in buy
ing the club. they want ne TO manage
It"
Ned's contract with the Nuscatine
Baseball association. however. l. iron
clad and he is not likely to be allowed
to slip through the fingers Of Messrs.
Block & Co.
That Four-Vet Rule.
Despite the fact the action taken By
the league directors at Burlington in
adopting the four-vet rule IN the Cen,
/ trail association was unanimous. Wat
erIoo sport scr;bes are stIl raving
and ranting over the affair. In Satur
days issue Of a Waterloo. paper. Bert
/ Hough is credited with saying that the
only team in the league that the new
ruling will affect Is Waterloo and this
appears TO be reason enough for an
other eruption. AS matter Of fact
Doc Jay Andrews team will probably
be the team most largely affected al
the opinion about the circuit was tc
the effect that the Jays were the high
est salaried team in the circuit.
The Waterloo scribe concludes hti
latest wall with the following:
The directors Of the organiza tior
should consider this matter carefully
and adopt only regulations that cal
and will be enforced. President JUS
tice has admitted the regulation VII
probably fall to stand test Of base
ball laws, SO it is certain the rule vii
be violated before the season Is vel