New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-17
So Far as He Knows, Col.
Rupert Has Not Yet
Accepted Terms.
RUMOR ABOUT MATTY
DENIED BY FOSTER
Blossom Seeley Suggested as
the Person Best Fitted to
Succeed Chance.
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN.

by III NOCD
nav after day. day after day, the New
York Yankees have been sold, ana an
the time Frank Farrell has stood Dy
in grim-lipped silence. But YESTERDAY
the strain became too great ana ne
spoke. 81 am still the owner OF the
Yankees" said Mr. FARRELL. $50 far as
7 49, Colonel Rupert has not yet
accepted my terms. | am wiling 10 sen
nv club for half a million dollars but
for not one penny less. Will not
agree on S45O,00O as a compromise
price. -. C.1ouol
81 see by the papers that ColoneI
Ruppert is quoted as saying that ne
will give S45O,O00 and that tie League
will make up the rest. That would De
perfectly satisfactory to me. ] do not
care where the money comes from, but
no. such proposition has been made TO
me by the league.
"There is no truth in the report that
Hughie Jennings will come here to
manage the Yankees. lie would un-
doubtedly be an excellent man, but ne
is tightly bound TO the Tigers by con
tract. II would be mighty hard 10 IN
duce Navin to give him up. Now, re-
member, | am still the owner OF the
Yankees" And, completing this out
hurst. Frank Farrell lapsed back into
silence, and the daily sale of the Yam
KEGS continued as before
And at the Office of the New York
National League baseball club another
denial was on tap. There is aoso-
Iutely no truth in the report that
Nathewson is to be the next manager
Of the Yankees" said John B. Foster,
secretary of the club. There ls1t
enough in it to make even nealthy
rumor." he added
Almost everybody in town has had
guess now as to the next leader OF the
New York Americans. As best we can
remember the list now includes Bill
Clymer. Tommy Leach, Hughie Jen-
nings, Bill Donovan. Louis Pieper, Jack
Dunn, John Camel, Connie Mack,
Charlie DOOM Eddie Collins and Roger
PekinpauCh. So far we have not made
a guess all for ourselves, but we are
going TO do so now. The next man
ager of the Yankees will be Blossom
Seeley. There can be no questioning
her ability to handle green material !
for she taught Marquard to sing and to
dance. And how can there be any
question as to her ability as man
ager. Hasn't she managed the Rube
Maranville, but George Stallings says /
they will never get the rabbit"
Our faith in the Feds weakened from /
the moment we saw the headline I
"Feds Send Agent Here to Get Base /
ball Stars" in Cleveland newspaper.
Although the Giants Sill wear the I
red and black of the Harvard football !
team next season Percy Haughton has /
failed as yet to send in his congratu-
lations.
The first interleague contest of the
year will take place on January 3, when
Tom Mccarthy, scout of the Braves, will
meet Joseph Lannin, owner of the Red
Sox, in thirty-siX hole golf match
Cy Falkenberg ought to learn TO knit
soX or to provide for his spare time in
some manner. With the Indianapolis
Feds last year he pitched only 379 inn
ings.
When looking for gunners, how did
Wilhelm of Germany ever miss Kaiser
ling, of the Hoosiers, who hit seventeen
batters last season?
Jim Gaffney says that the new field /
of the Braves will probably be copied ]
after the Yale Bowl. II Mr.. Gaffney 10 .
in any doubt he has only to consult his /
townsmen, Charley Brickley and Percy /
Haughton. to receive the most hatter- /
ing reports of structures of the bowl
type.
Fred Snodgrass is against il. He says
IL would be no fun 70 be hit with a
pop bottle tossed from the thirtieth
row.
Larry Mclean, who distrusts all I
bowls, might not play in L.
John Heydler left New York for
French Lick Springs last night to at .
tend meeting Of the schedule COM
mittee.
An amendment TO the national agree
mcnt has just been adopted by both
major leagues whereby the National 4
Commission may call "a meeting of the /
rules committee each year
What a pity Chief Bender jumped
20 the Federal League, He should have
remained with the Athletics in order to
pitch against Lai Tin. the new Chinese
inhelder of the White Sox. Indian
against Chinese would have afforded
% spectacle Of race conflict not provided
Tor elsewhere in destiny.