New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-12
Sinclair and Powers Cross
Harlem in Search of
Site for Park.
BARROW STILL TRUE
TO ORGANIZED BALL
wild" Bill Donovan Back,
Minus Pipp and High-Yan-
KEGS Get Third BaSeman.
By HAYWOOD BRoUN.

The floating franchise Of the Fed
ersl League is drifting toward The
Bronx. The jubilstion Of Newark at
the prospect Of getting a big league
team seems destined to be short lived.
Harry +. Sinclair, the wealthy oil man,
who is backing Pat Powers, said yes
tsrday: 81 haven't signed an agreement
with anybody yet ] am still looking
about 70 determine the best location
for & team"
Shortly after making the above state
rnent Sinclair and Powers took trip
TO The Bronx and visited piece OF
property there which is amply large
FOR the construction OF big baseball
plant
Mr.. Sinclair has been a baseball root
er for some time. He is going into
the game for the fun of IT, and not
for any immediate, or even eventual,
financial return.
The new venturer in baseball once
had an opportunity OF purchasing a
controlling interest in National
League club, but after looking over
the ground he decided to cast in his
lot with the Feds. IL is probable that
Pat Powers and his associates will
make their decision as to a site public
n
the race, but The Bronx is the fRvorite.
Somebody or other Is always writing
stories to annoy Edward 6. Barrow. A
large type announcement in Brooklyn
newspaper yesterday that the Inter
national League was preparing 70 jump
20 the Feds aroused Barrow to great
wrath. Sooner than go to the Feds"
he said, "I'd see my league broken into
little bits"
The suggention gas advanced that
some Of the club ywners might not
share this view, and MIR. Barrow Rd
mitted that he could not speak for all
his associates Although the lnterna-
tional is very wroth at the National
League, Il lie hard to see just what
could be gained by a flop 10 the Feds.
Mr Gilmore would hardly welcome tho
Jumpers The Feds would have no
financial assistance for them. There
will be no leap.
Harry ~ Hampstead. owner Of the
Giants, has been made q target of crit
icism By a certain number Of people in
The Bronx who feel that he has de.
prived them Of their baseball rights by
refusing 10 permit an international
League team to 60 across the Harlem.
As q matter Of fact, neither Colonel
Rupert nor Captain Huston is at all
anxious 70 see The Bronx invaded, but
as they are newcomers at the game
they left the matter up TO Hemp
The National League owners VINO arc
advocating the granting Cf the terri
tory to the international League have
no territory Of their own at stake. IL
minor league team in The Bronx
should prove a great drawing card 1t
would hurt the Giants and the Yankees.
II II was a failure IL would leave an
unoccupied park on .he market which
would be no more than a standing in
vitation to competitors to come IN.
"wild Bill" Donovan came back yes
terday without the contracts Of Pipp
and High, but he had news OF an add
ton 10 the ranks Of the Yankees just
the same. The new man is William A.
Tamm, an irfelder from the Atlantic
League. Tamm is third baseman, and
last season he hit for .295 and telded
for 1875.
The search Of the Yankees for a
mascot "a handicapped by the fact that
most OF the little fellows demand a
three-year contract with the ten-day
clause eliminated Then, too, for the
sake Of the dignity Of the team it is
necessary 10 find lad smaller than
Fritz Maisel. One of the leading can
didates at present is little George
Manley, whose team captured twenty
four out Of twenty-five games last year.
Leslie Mann. late of the Braves, has
jumped 10 the Federal League. Charlie
Heeghman announced in Chicago yes
terday that the outfielder had signed a
two-year contract with the Whales.
Mann was a fine fielder last season,
yet In spite Of his speed he stole only
nine bases in 1876 games. He hit for
.247. Yet he earned his salary for
the season in the worlds series by
making a telling single which defeat
ed Eddie Plank in the second game,
and later by contributing q brilliant
running catch.
We we're wrong when we said that
the Tip Tops would have no chance for
diversion in their camp at Browns
Wells. Tex. Lee Magee informed us
Yesterday that an automobile bus line
runs straight TO the heart of the the
atrical district Of Hazelhurst every
night
Fred Merkle visited the Offices Of the
Giants yesterday. He spent the last
two months riding a bicycle through
Florida.
Governor and Mayor