The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-18
OWNER MURPHY
LETS STARS GO
No SembIance Left of Great Cub
Machine of Three Years Ago

The great tinker -,Evers- to-
Chance" combination is busted com
pletely, and with the ousting of Trojan
Jawn as manager Of the Chicago Cubs
goes one more member of the famous
machine which won pennants and
worlds championships in the National
league and made fortune for Charles
Webb Murphy.
No magnate. ever has wrecked his
club as hurriedly as this Murphy
person. Annually he springs a sensa-
tional, and his latest is the deposing of
Icvers as manager and appointing
Hank O'Dray To the post.
The release of t,Vcrs. even after he
was held high enough To be signed 10
"a five year contract as player ana
manager brings to mind the team
which for years was heralded as su-
prcme in baseball. That club Frank
Chance directed ranks right alongside
Of the present Philadelphia Athletics
as the greatest of all baseball clubs
1t won the pennant in 1906 1907 and
1908. Also the worlds title-fn 1907 and
1908. Then the pennant again in 1910.
And when the team didn't win the pen
nant it came mighty near, and always
was a contender.
But what happened To the athlete
when he started To slip bit-the
player who aided Murphy in building
up his fortune. which is said to run
very close to the million dollar mark?
Poruse this list:
Frank Chance, manager and first
baseman, released.
Mordecai Brown, pitcher, released to
minor league club.
JEFF Overall. released To minor league
club.
Jack Pfcstcr, pitcher released u"
minor league club.
Carl Lundglcn, pitcher. released.
I'd Rculbach, pitcher traded to
brooklyn.
Johnny Evers. second baseman aud
manager, released.
Harry Steinfeldt. third baseman, re-
leased
joe Tinker. shortstop, traded To Cin-
cinnati
Jimmy Sheckard. outficldcr, sold to
Pittsburgh.
johnny Killing. catcher, traded to
Boston.
There's a list of players, each AMI
every one a real star. now far, far
away from the West Side park in Chi
cago. For years they we're heroes,
made money in chunks for Murphy
and wha IS the result?
The case of Brown probably is the
most pathetic. The thrce-iingered mar
vel was a wonder in his day. never
missed a chance To make the cubs "A
success, which meant dollars for Muir
ply. His finish, SO far as Murphy was
concerned, was being showed Ia a
minor league club.
Others suffered the same rate before
Brown, others even after Brown. And
now comes the climax-thc release
of Evcrs
The release of Trojan Jawn brings
out another peculiar point. Only
year ago. just after EVers was given
Frank Chances job, the new manager
was hcralded as the keystone king ny
Magnate Murphy. Columns were writ
ten by Murphy for the Chicago papers
about Evers' prowess on the diamond.
Chicago was in the midst of the
shock of Chances release. Murphy hal
to do something to win back the fans,
so he promptly boosted Evers' stock.
Evers managed To bring his team
home in third place, and 1t was the
unanimous verdict all around the Ma
tional league circuit that during the
last two months of the season Evera
had the best team in the.league.
The next on the list FOR the ax from
Murphy's office probably will be Frank
schultz. lie is the only regular men,
Der of the famous machine now with
the Cubs.