El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-24
BALL TEAMS READY To TRAIN;
OUTLOOK IS Unsatisfactory
Continuation Of Wrangle etween Organized Baseball
and Federals, With Deer ease in the Efficiency Of
Teams, May Be Ended by Recognition of Feds;
Forecasts of Nation nails and Americans.
BY JOHN e. wRAY.

be on the job when the season begins,
but only one lone lad, Lee Magee Of
rthe Brookfeds, Will be taking his first
dive into the seas Of managerial trou-
bles
Bresnahan is a tried and successful
leader. his experience with the Car
dinals effectualy proving his mettle
II the stuff is in the Cubs. the club
viii be in the hunt rest assured. a
slave driver and fighter Roger
known ability to get values out of men,
win make his team formidable.
Pat Moran, is the other National
leagues. had experience under Doom,
to whom he acted as first Lieutenant
for some time. Moran has good pitch
er or two to work with. but the worst
looking bunch of relics ever inherited
by an unfortunate manager.
New American Leaders.
Bill Donovan of the Yankees leads
another forlorn hope, although 1t IS
believed he Will do better than Frank
Chance. Donovan was q success in
charge Of the Providence club, which
won the International league pennant
last season. Wild Bill has the brains,
the baseball education and the leader
ship experience Moreover he is con-
stituted right, in many ways He ought
tc get by
Clarence Rowland is the mystery
man" Of the game. What Clarence will
do is guess work, for he never was
major league player nor was he j ma
jor league manager-Or even close 20
that. He headed a class B outfit last
season in the Peoria club Perhaps he'll
feel right at home with his Chicago
players; but we suspect that the SoX,
with Eddie Collins. will have the class
on him at that. Rowland knew how to
handle men in the minors The same
trait plus fair team, may put him in
the one, two. three hunt
Ban Johnson will hang a few medals
on him for doing the same for west
ern contender is sorely needed, this
Fed League Bosses.
In the Federal league we have the
greatest and possibly the worst Of all
the new leaders-Fielder Jones of sthe
Terriers. and Lee Magee of the Brook
feds.
Jones is a man tried and not found
waLting. JOnes's reputation is built on
his success with the old White SOX
team of 1906, which defeated the Cubs
for the worlds championship, despite
the handicap that Old Top Hughey Full
lerton picked them to win. Some
achievement.
Jones had a collection of misfits. aged
horses ready for retirement, discards
and sick men, and a few stars. He
won because he had players who car
ried out his ideas. They didn't need
many hits, under JOnes's system, but
they won the championship and the
title Of "hitless wonders
Lineup Has Merit.
Jones will surely get some baseball
out Of his present outfit. The roster
will not blind the yes with brilliancy.
But it has some merit. Hartley, Chap
man and Simon constitute q better
catching staff than is to be found with
most clubs; BOrtOn, Bridwell, Ernie
as an infield starter, and Marsans.
Ward Miller and Eddie Tobin will do
as an Outfield starter. There is a COM
biuatiOu Of speed and experience in i'm
portant positions such as is needed by
any successful club. The pitching tai
ent is Of the ripe kind that Jones pre-
fers-old heads who pull the stuff he
asks of them in pinches-Plank, Gran
dali, Willet Groom, plus a few young
bloods of fair promise
Jones will do something with this
bunch where most of the leaders in
the game would pull a flivver.
As for Magee he's the youngest Of all
managers and he has a good club in
the BroOkfeds How well he can kepp
il in hand and how much of the deep
stuff he can teach some of his more
experienced 'subordinates, it is impossi-
bic to conjecture.