The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-28
SOME MANAGERS
MAY Be DROPPED
Several Changes In Big League
Clubs Expected.
BILL CARRIGAN HAS QUIT

LoaoeT OF NndHplon boston hed SoS
Says He Is Through-8arry May
Lead Team-Tinker Likely to Lose
Out In Chicago.
Change i'm management Of major
league clubs cen usually be depended
upon to piece ont the off season gossip
of baseball. II Is not likely that the
winter of I9lG-17 will prove any ex-
cepti0n To the rule. There are two in
stnnces-onc in each circuit-whore a
change Is bound to come, while gossip
names several other pilots as likely to
be relieved OF their responsibilities be-
fore next spring
Bill Carrigan has quit The leader
of the worlds champion Red Sox will
under no consideration remain in the
game. Carrlgan had decided to retire
before a relative. who passed away last
summer bequeathed him modest for
tune TO supplement- one Of pretension
he already enjoyed Carrigan has
made all plans for n business career at
his home town of Lewiston, Me.
Now that the Boston American
league club has changed hands the
chances are that the veteran sec
ond baseman, Jack Barry. probably
will have first consideration for the
appointment Barry, as field captain,
was Of iuestimable assistance to Car
rlgan. jack knows the game from
start TO finish. lie is possessed of a
charming personality. He learned his
baseball under Connie Mack, one of
the wisest and craftiest generals ever
known
Joe Tinker is doomed to the order of
the tin can, according to the best in
formation obtainable from the middle
west. Charles Weeghman, president Of
the Cubs, is not so friendly as he was
TO the man that won a pennant in
the Federal league with the Chicago
Whales. The stockholders Of the Cubs
thought a combination of the old Cubs
and the Whales would waltz through
TO a National league pennant in 1916.
When Tinker. who cultivated lust
such an impression, failed so dismally
the myriad stockholders started after
Tinker's scalp through Weeghman. it
Is said.
In Chicago il Is said that Weeghman
and the other directors have begun to
make great play for Frank Chance.
who Is still n lion in the Windy City.
Whether Chance would consent to re-
turn to the National league is a ques-
ton.
Until recently 1t was thought that
Iris Speaker was to replace Lee Foil
as leader Of the Cleyelands. President
Dunn settled all this talk by signing
up Foil for next season.
For the last four months there has
been talk of change in the leadership
Of the Chicago White Sox. Clarence
Rowland, in the opinion of his con.
temporaries has not measured I'D to
really high class standards. Smart
managers of the American league
maintain that Rowland for the last
two seasons has had club 10 or 20
per cent stronger than the worlds
champion Red Sox
The great majority OF the major
league managers of 1916 are protected
by term contracts over the coming sea.
son. Cincinnati. the most Tightly city
OF all. has tied itself to Christy
Mathewson through 1917 and 1918
The contracts of McGraw with the
Giants aud Wilbert Robinson with the
Robins both have one more year to go
George Stnllings is bound to the
Braves to the end of 1920. Pat Moran
Is under contract to the Phillies for
next year Jimmy Callahan Is sure OF
another years grace at least in Pitts
burgh unless Dreyfuss sells the club
which Is improbable. The same goes
Tor Miller Higgins i'm ST. Louis
Not So Well Protected.
American league managers are not
so well protected generally. Connie
Mack at Philadelphia and Clark Crit
fifth at Washington are stockholders rs
we'll ms leaders and consequently be
yond the reach of directors foiblcs
Hugh Jennings Is bound to Detroit by
term contract. The same goes fol
Fielder Jones and the Browns.
Biz Donovan has just signed to lead
the Yankees next year.
Chicago aud Boston seem most likely
to furnish the greater part Of the win
ter leagues CUFF about managerial
shakeups. 1t now appears a certainty
that both the Cubs and the White Soy
will have new leaders in 1917. CARR
gan's retirement makes necessary the
selection Of a pilot for the worlds
champions