New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-10
Smiling Leader Matching
Wits with Tinker Over
Peckinpaugh.
HEARING OF MAGEE
SUIT POSTPONED
Foster Announces List Of Games
Giants Will Play Before
League Season Opens.
~ HAYWOOD BROUN.

The test Of the managerial ability o.
wild Bill" Donovan has come sooner
than expected. The smiling leader OF
the Yankees is already under fire. Out
in Cleveland he is matching his wits
and other more tangible assets, perhaps,
in duel with Joe Tinker for the ser
vices of Roger PecIinpsUgh. shortstop,
captain and former manager Of the
Yankee nine.
Roger is alive 70 the fact that his
position is OF great strategic value. and
he is willing 20 let both men rattle
their monev Tinker was the first 10
bid. but Donovan came back and raised
the manager Of the Chifeds. without
any hesitation Tinker tilted his figures
once again. Pockinpaugh stood pat.
lie believe ne can survive the suspense.
81 think everything will be adjusted
satisfactorily, and that ! will De with
the New York team next season. said
the shortstop. but have not yet come
to terms with the New York manage
ment, and Tinker has offered me more
than Donovan did. Donovan, ] under.
stand. is waiting 20 hear from mis- club,
and whether | am Yankee again next
season depends on the word he re-
ceiyes."
Suspense is also the portion OF the
followers Of the Tip Tops. for the hear
ing Of the Injunction suit against Leo
Hoernschemeyer Lee Magec) was post
poned yesterday until January l6. The
Cardinals. who come into court as the
American Baseball and Athletic Exhi-
bton Company, have asked for an
order restraining Lee Magee from man
aging or playing with any other team
than the St Louis National League
Club. Judge HOLSTER ordered both
sides 10 be ready to submit arguments.
Speaking Of jumps and jumpers, the
Giants will hop about more or less be
fore they get down to the business %
the regular league schedule. John b.
Foster gave out yesterday the list OF
games for the first team OF the Giants
and this is II:
March 20 and q Dallas March - and y Beau
mont. April ami I. New Orleans. Apru 3. sHu
AnrI H9o'f Rcimoa 1 Apdl To- wsshinsoa hprl i.
Polo Grounds. Two games with Yale April -.
I Bristol appears on the schedule o.
/ the Giants for the first time The
/ state line runs across the middle OF
/ the diamond. and a player may bunt
| the ball in Virginia and see II roll
/ across TO Tennessee. Knoxville Is 10
/ be revisited after an absence Of three
/ years, and Richmond has not been
/ honored by the first team IN four
/ years. Houston, Tex, the lair OF Pat
Newman. who battled with McGrsw
/ last season, will not be invaded.
/ The baseball authorities OF Yale
University asked for a double header
so that they might have an opportuni-
" of putting their entire squad into
the field Kings College, a tiny insti-
tuition of learning, will probably fur
nish the opposition 10 the Giants in
Bristol.
Captain Huston announced yester-
day that in addition 10 signing up
/ Yankee regulars, Bill Donovan had
been commissioned to pick M any new
men who may be lying about loose.
Miller Higgins has started for Cuba,
where he hopes 20 meet Marsans and
induce him 20 come back 10 organized
baseball. II Marsans is induced he
will go 20 the Cardinals in exchange
for Ivy Wingo, who is slated for the
Reds. The deal is one Of many possi-
bic pitfalls. for Jim Gilmore stated
yesterday that Wingo would not be
allowed 70 return TO organized base
ball before the courts had passed upon
! his case