New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-17
Ira Thomas Slated to Manage
St. Louis Cardinals, While
Johnny Evers May Succeed
Barry Of the Red SOY
By w. ]. Macbeth

contestants.
Organized baseball next year mus
Get along without its stoutest cham
pion, President b. b. Johnson of the
American League. Miller Higgins will
succeed Wild Bill Donovan as manager
Of the Yankees. Ira Thomas-for sew
eral years first lieutenant Of Connie /
Mack-will take charge of the ST. Louis
Cardinals when Higgins transfers his |
allegiance to the American League. ]
John J. Evers in all probability will
manage the late world champion Red ,
Sox. This depends upon whether or
not Jack Barry, most active member /
of the Naval Reserve, fulfls his ambi-
ton Of becoming an officer of the /
navy when he goes up for examination
this winter.
That panorama is the baseball layout /
at the present moment. Ban johnson /
at least until the European war ~
concluded is through as an active /
director of American League destinies. !
Johnson hurried away to Chicago after
Yesterdays game at Mineola between
the White Sox and Giants to close up
his business affairs, so that he might
accent 4 commission in the commissary
Of the United States army.
Johnson Arranges Appointments
Edward q. Barrow, president of the
I....~-.t.nna1 I Will succeed 1ll.
Johnson as American League execu- /
tive. That fact is certain. As certain
as the fact that Huggins viii pilot the '
Yankees in 1918. Higgins appoint
neut was arranged by johnson. IL
was a dictatorial arrangement when
will not be discussed 81 length here;
Colonel Jacob Rupert was the party OF
the third part.
81 will oe in the trenches of France /
within six weeks said Ban Johnson /
yesterday.
81 am through with baseball until /
the end of the war. I'm going over 10 ,
ioir Captain Huston. TIL bet you .
new rat ! beat him into the trenches:
The American League is well fortified
against the future. Its business men !
can carry it safely through whatever /
business depression war may involve .
] am for the bigger game-fcr Amer /
lea. for democracy, for France, for /
Belgium
Harry II. Frszee, president of the !
Boston Red Sox, vouch safed the infor-
nation that Edward G.. Barrow would !
be next years president of the Ameri- /
can League Nr. Frazee was seen |
shortly after he had been in long con |
sultation with Johnson.
Barrow" said FraZee, 'is one OF
the shrewdest men Of the game. lie /
won his spurs in the most successful
light which the international League :
put up against jim Gilmore's outlaw
ring. The Barrow circuit had to bear
the brunt of that battle. No one on
the outside can appreciate what powers I
OF executive ability Mr.. Barrow WELD
ed 10 keep his organization together IN
the most distressing circumstances
Barrow Attends Game
Barrow attended yesterdays game
between the White Sox and Giants al
Camp Mills in the company of b. Is. /
Johnson and William r. Yawkey. Yaw-
kew was at one time president of the
Detroit American League Club. He is
still heavily interested in the Tigers. /
Also he is one of the richest young
n men OF the 1Gllfu 'NdNNFs iAN %" 'eAN d
TO possess upward OF thirty millions.
Yawkey is a personal friend Of Ed /
ward G.. Barrow. Barrow, indeed. man
aged the Detroit club when Yawkey first /
became interested in 1t as a boy, almost I
fifteen years ago. Barrow is Johnson's /
candidate for the American League /
presidency. and the candidacy has the 7
hearty Endorsement Of Yawkey, Fra .
h. ~ AmarIF1r .
League club owners.
As to the coming of Miller Higgins .
TO this city. there Is a strange tale
floating round that cannot be verified
/ will give il TO the public as ! got It,
without absolute veriication. The in
terested parties, of course, could not
be expected to come clean with the in /
side dope.
in a word Miller Higgins is being
foisted upon Colonel Jacob Rupert By
Ban Johnson and tn. American League.
The favor comes from the parties who
made themselves famous by picking
number of failures for the Yankees.
They hand-picked Jake Stahl. They
hand picked Frank Leroy Chance. And
they kicked out George Stallings after
he had done more in two years than all
the hand-picked failures combined
through fifteen summers.
Johnson, it appears, became very
peeyed with Branch Hickey. when the
president of the Cardinals deserted
Phil Ball and the st. Louis Browns. He
laid his snares 20 get even. Miller Hug
gins was proving "a success with the
ST. Louis National League Club. the
opposition Of the team to which Hickey
transferred his allegiance.
Donovan's Ill Luck
So, some time ago. the story goes,
Johnson signed Higgins 70 an Ameri-
can League contract. At the time Lee
Foil was none too strong in Cleve-
land. Fielder Jones had been a disap-
pointment with the ST. Louis Browns.
IL looked safe bet that some one in
the American League would stand in
need of manager. Fohls club closed
strongly, and James Dunn decided 20
retain the present incumbent. Hug
gins would not consent TO transfer
that left him in St. Louis. Donovan's
i'll luck in New York left an opening
upon which American League imperial
ism could concentrate its greatest
pressure. new hsnd-picked manager
Tor the Yankees is the result.
As 20 the situation IN Boston, Frazee
has not been perfectly satisfied with
the outcome of this years race He
does not lay 20 Barry the cause of his
disappointment But # a change is 70
be made As . matter of necessity Fra
zee intends 10 secure spitfire to pep
per up his boys and such one as can
be found in Evers. During the world
series Evers declared he would man
age an American League club next sea-
son. FraZee will not admit that Barry
may be lost to him or that any thought