The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-29
MEXICAN LEAGUE INVADED NEW YORK
 12A YEARS AGO

# It VIII be just round dnEen years : f6raor4,,sv saace the A1ner1can League plia1.ed off its fIzzE game in Ryew r or7<- T1e. metropolitan fnvaafOn Of Ban 8Jos1lsszs.1l1 marked the beginn1ng of the esad Of tlas bitter BassS,aI1 war which fa been rEaged between the NsxA7pz1a4 league and the interloper on the naa~i Jor league preserves The Baa lzaTanRes club. which had been manaRed by JoIan McGxaHs was dropped at the hiose Of the 1909 season, to make ssssav for New York just as NlfEaz1- 5s5e Minzseapo11s Buffa1os Kansas csitv and Indianapolis had prev1oas-l l5 been ahznted out Of the neM Iears RIe in order that the franchises 4sils ez1trazsce Of New York in 1903 was the last oG 4zanse changes. and the J1hnspn orga7aization has ai11ca stood
 Joseph ". Gordon was the hea,d of the New York club when it played first contest on the home els. Aprf1 3O 1903, and Clark Griffith 4Has the manager The Hig11AAnd- er as the MeH YoSkers were first eaalsa beca11se of the loca4ion of their bEsr11g 10 ia1at on Wash 4ngtOn Heights were a fairly classy b1nchs but not 1 quite god enoagh to realize the fond hopes of the naetropol Titan fans They zClGLG2I90 first pasEfnae on the home grounds, winning by score of 6 to q with lack Chesbro pftcafng. Any club was good enough to whip Washing ton in those days, however
 The Highlanders finished their first year at thestbottom of the fourth division, having been beat out by Jimmy ColinsS Bostonians, Connie Hacks Athletics and Arnour,s CIeve- lnd club. Not a single member of ff4e H1ghIanders aggregation of 1903 is now left in organized baseball Of major league calibre.
 The Highlanders were long ham, .deapped, financially. by the fnac- feasibility of their plant. which was located at 1e5th street and Broad way The subway station at that point was something less than a. mf1k Underground. and elevators were re- eaired to carry the fans up and down There were only two sHfts's on thk job and sometimes from fifteen te thirty minutes elapsed before tht bugs could be transported to the st1r face. This obstacle to the succes Of the club finally brought about tn Abandonment Of the old park. and tn, club played at the Polo Grounds, fo1 which the Yankee nanageznent pa4a $55, ,O60 year. The old plant ha Neen dismantled and cut up int nuilding lots.
 The Highlanders finished second t Boston in their second year. bu s4arnped' to sixth place in 1905. The ffHished second to the White Sox i 1aa6. but in the next three years the Iere fifth, eighth and fifth,. reSpec 5ely. In 1910 they returned to sec Sad place. trailing the Athletics. bu were sixth in 1911. eighth in 1911 enth in 1913. and sixth last year.
 Erank !. Farrell became the pres idAnt of the club in 1907 and haI fI7ht post until this year. when tn club was sold to Col Ruppert, a veal thy brewer and Capt. Huston.
 contractor who made his pile in Ha yana-
 4 Since 1903 the New York Arneri can league club has eight manager. Clark Griffith held the job mt 1908, when he was succeeded by No1 man E1berfe1d. George Stanings, tn %fEniracIe man. of the Boston Braves held the re1Es in 1909 and during
 part of 1910. when Hal Chase too lis place. Harry WoIverton assun ed the management in 1872, and i 1913 Frank Chance, the forme esPeerIess Leader of the Cubs, too Ea chance at the game He threw U the thankless job last year ana Roge Peckingpaug finfshed out the ses son. Now Bill Donovan is Up againi 1t TfIle can return the Tanks wir 11er, Col. Ruppert will find his 1T vestment better than brewery. fe in spite of all discouragement th New York fanatics have been a Joy, bunch.
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