New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-12
Yankee Manager Signs
Peckinpaugh to Three
Year Contract.
SHORTSTOP TO GET
A $1,000 SALARY
CAPTAIN Huston Fears He VIII
Be Unable to Get Kinsella
for a Scout.
Ry HAYWOOD BROUN.

mcnt he has been sent after two play
,rs- and their scalps are his. Likewise
their contracts. Roger Pockingpaugh'
,hortstop. bound himself yesterday L.
The Yankees for term Of three years
90 q salary Of $1,000 a season.
Donovan won him from under the
very check book Of Joe Tinker. man
aeer OF the Chfeds. The deal was
closed I'm Cleveland Roy Hartzeli,
Pete Daley and Marty Mchale are st'l'
holding out. but old sure shot is on
their trail
When seen by the newspaper men o.
Cleveland immediately after his capt
ure. Roger PccklnpauCh gave long
lingering look az the figures m ms
contract and said: 81 am certainly
we'll pleased that I Will be with New
York again. ] am very fond OF New
York and its fans.
Peckinpauch is one Yankee who
owes "a debt Of gratitude TO Frank
Chance. The Cleveland club had Just
about decided that Peck.npauGh would
not DO for them. and was preparing -
send him tO the minor leagues IN 1919.
when Chance came along and odered
LelNc,t and STUMP ~ exchange Tor
him. Joe Birmingham accepted the
tfFcr with ayidity. II Peckinpaugf hac
cou" bacs 90 the minors II Is doultiu.
q he would have been aole % Get back
10 tho major league again. for a man
must win his way upward with bat
rather than with glove. Pechinpaugh
is brilliant fielder, bat light hitter
.n any company.
The fielding averages show him Just
behind Mcbride, and his task was
hard one on account of the weakness
Of Fritz Naisel. who covered little
ground 20 his left. Peckinpaugh bat
ting average was only DOB, but thus
does not show his usefulness, Tor he
drove iu more runs than any man on
his team. and stood fourteenth i'm the
American League IN this respect. The
club got It's moneys worth out OF
Pcckinpauch last season. for ne
PLAYED iu l57 games and did not miss
au inning
a critical examination of the bat
ing averages for last easOn shows
that Peckirpauch's low mark was due
90 the fact that he was a poor waiter.
Dick Kinsella, scout Of the Giants.
arrived ir town yesterday. but re-
fused 90 comment on the report that
he would be employed TO build up the
fortunes Of the Yankees
1--WE would like TO have kinsella,'
said Captain Huston, when the cues
ton was put 20 him, but ! guess II
would be just about as easy TO get
Matty."
Il is possible. however. that McGraw
NAV lend Kinsela 20 the new owners
Of the Yankees after he has stocked
The Giants M 10 their limit. Kinsella
EXPRESSED the belief that Marshall.
from Davenport. catcher, and Hollo-
way. an infelder. from Springfield.
would give a very good account OF
themselves with the Giants next sea
sen.
Tommy Fogarty. owner Of the Jer-
soy City club. says that If the fran
chise u.s. transferred 20 Syracuse sun
day bali will be played.
Harry Homestead came back TO town
Yesterday after q short stay al the
plantation OF George Stalllngs IN Had
docks. Ga The owner OF the Giants
said that when he left the New York
contingent was in fair way 10 bring
back 90 this city share OF the prohts
which Jim Gafney made IN the world
series.
Tho Giants nave left New York Uni
vorstv FAT There viii be no violet IN
the uniforms ON McGraw's men next
season The team viii intrust its fort
une 20 the red and black. The stock
fnc- win Doc mostly black, with a red
band. while the home uniforms viii
be white. with thin stripe Of blue
so dark as 10 approach black.
Rouge Ct noir will do nicely for the
Giants. but where viii the team look
for its o o II Marquard fails TO re-
port
Hank Cowdy says that the Feds Of
fered him $4,000 for three years, but
that he turned them down. Hank is
bound 20 the Braves for three years
bv am iron contract, and. anyway, he
needs no $4,000 for he stu has that
silver bat which the fans gave him i'm
mediately after the worlds series.
"Three-Filcered" Brown has sub
mtted am affidavit 20 the federal court
that Roger Bresnahan once traded a
professional baseball player TO Dick
Kinsella for a bird dog, but neglects to
state which party was stuck
Dominick J. Mullaney, the latest ad-
dition 90 the American Leagues staff
of umpires. is feet 3 inches tall and
weighs 225 pounds If Providence had
q better eye for the ntness OF tnlngs
Mullaney would be in the National
League An organization which has a
zimmerman. a Magee and a Bresnahan
deserves "a Mullaney.
Chief Meyers writes TO John Foster
hat he is I'm midseason form, but neg
lccts 20 state whether he means 1913
or 1919.
Larry Mclean denies that John Nc
Graw offered 70 pay his fare 70 Phlla-
dcphia If he would 90 and near Billy
Sunday preach on rum.
The rise I'm the price Of wheat leaves
fle Wards with the alternative OF cut
ting the size OF their loaves or their
pitching staff.
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