El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-26
NAGNATESlIDN'T
ASSIST FARRELL
Instead, American League
Threw All It's Aid Toward
New Yankee Owner.
by FRANK G. MENKE.

Nov- york. Jan. 26.-One Of the mNs-
ferries of baseball is: Why didn't Ban
johnson and his Aperlcan leagu9 a.
sociates give Frank Farrell niue
holm and keen him in the league as the
owner Of the Yankees e.
Johnson got a first class manager Ior
the new owners. he gave them LlNe
bal nlavers. So anxious was Johnson
to get the Ruppert-Huston crowd INTO 10
The ownership of the Yankees that ne
eot the American league to agree TO
make ND the difference IN the price
that Farrell wanted for his club ana
the nrice that the Ruppert-huston rae
tiou wanted to pay. . ,.,r--,a
In other words, the American league
stood ready to pay $4,000 out OF IT'S
pockets and work itself into a sIalS
bordering on collapse to get the new
crowd the manager it wanted But II
wouldn't raise its hand 10 help ar Gil
in years gone by.
THE new Yankee owners are nurs-
fnr the hope that their club VIII De n
The pennant fight this summer II
seems faint hope the i've s.I play 49,, eIS
that the Yankees got as gifts from
other clubs may develop into real DaH
players-and they may not.
pitching staff Merely Ordinary.
The Yankees pitching staff IS ordi-
maryland nothing more. CaldWtell Is
ranked as the star twirler- Whelt
caldwell is right he is very goou
nitcher When he isn't he's awful
Caldwell is unreliable. Maybe Dono-
van can bring the best there IS out OF
him. Maybe not
has a. lot Of new players to work with.
Even if he finds there are quite =. a
number Of stars on the roster ne VIII
have to do considerable experimenting
early in the season. Experiments usu-
ally mean lost games.
The Yankees. as we view the siIua-
fion from this angle. won't land better
than siXth-if they land that h1gn-un-
less another baseball miracle is
wrought Which seems very unlikely
Donovan Has Ability.
There is no doubt about Donovan
ability as a manager He IS bralng'
evperienced and he knows now 10 ndu 81
die men, He can get the best out OF ms
men without driving them 10 the Poln'
where they want to assassinate NM
That was the greatest fault with rank
Chance. He made enemies among ms
men; Donovan will make Irlenus OF
them.
Donovan has that knack in handling
men that makes them all feel that they
are brothers. fighting for common
cause against common enemy. he
develops team spirit, the greatest assS'
of a ball club. He is not the tault 1llld-
inc kind. He doesn't apply vile IAN
r1ispo TO a man simply because the
man might have made foozle II ne
takes a man to task he does II IN 2
wav that leaves no sting and no Dit
terness.
New Manager is Popular.
Ruppert and Huston first insisted
upon Connie Mack as the manager ioi
their club. but when this demand couIo
NOT he granted and Donovan was sug'
gested to them, they looked into ms
record. A few looks convinced then
that he would do. And so they grabbed
him.
1eaaue pitcher The fans liked him
And the fans who once idolized him
Tor his wonderful skill as mounds
man now unite I'm wishing him luck IN
his new undertaking.
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and full weights mean fuel economy. De
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