New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-12
BARROW NAMED
To LEAD RED SOX
Barry to Be Succeeded by Former
international League President

Boston, Mass Feb. 12.-Edward
Grant Barrow, former president of
the International league, was ap-
pointed manager of the Boston Red
SoX yesterday. He will succeed Jack
Barry, Who relinquished the job to
enlist in the Naval Reserves as a
yeOman. Barrow will not sign a
Boston contract until next week, but
all terms We're settled yesterday in a.
conference with Harry Frazee, preSi-1
dent of the Boston club.
Barrow says that his appointment is
permanent and not temporary or for
the duration of the war, as was gen.
orally supposed. 1t is understood inI
baseball circles, however, that after
the war Barry will be restored to his|
former command, while Barrow Wilt
be placed in command of the businessI
end Of the Boston club with the rank
OF vice president
Barrow already has several deals ind
the air h says he will Immediately
strengthen his team through the pur-l
chase of the best talent he can purchased
from the International league. He 1n-I
tends to buy two infielders two OUT
fielders and a pitcher. The infieldersz
he is after are Larry Lajoie, manager
of the Toronto club, and Gus GeZ of
the Newark club and a former Dodger-I
If his plans are successful Lajoie and
GetZ VIII play on the Boston lnf1eldl
until NcNaIly, Barry and Janvrin rel
turn from the war.
Larry Gardner, the veteran third
base man of the team, is to be shifted
to the Athletics in the McInnis deal
along with lilly Walker the outfelderl
and a pitcher to be decided upon laterf
This deal probably will be completed
at the American League meeting nex
Thursday.
To Dispose of Hoblitzel.
Dick Hoblitzel, former first base
| man of the club, also is likely 20 b
disposed of before the meeting is oveEf
and he too may land with the Athle
! tics.
Barrow Immediately will tackle tH
| holdout problem of the Red SoX CLUB
SO far Stuffy McInnis is the only on
! of the four stars purchased from thf&
Athletics who has signed a contract
| The other three, Joe Bush, WALK
| Schang and Amos Strunk, are djssat
isfied with their Boston stipends. Thu
trio met Frazee and Barrow here thi
! morning, when it was said the diff
/ ferenceS between the club and tn
players were adjusted.
Although Barrow never played pro-
| fessional ball he has been connecte
! with the sport since he was a younj
man. He entered his duties as Inter
national league president after a loni
and successful career as mino
/ league manager. Barrow has been
| the American league before. He wa
He was not particularly successful
a big league pilot In 1903 his tea
finished fifth, while in 1904 the clu
! managed by him and Bobby Low
! finished seventh. \
Barrow was born in Des Moine
Ia, and was a newspaper man in tn
city before he gave all of his time
baseball. He started his manageri
career with the Wheeling, ". Va
club in 1895. The next year he ma
aged the Paterson team of the OF
Atlantic league and lost the penna
on the last day of the season.
Paterson Barrow developed the famo
! Hans Wagner and Emmit Heidrie
the great outfelder of the late ninetl
President of Atlantic League.
In 1897 Barrow became preside
of the Atlantic league and held
job until the league disbanded at
end of the 1899 season. In 1900
! managed the Toronto club a.
finished second in Toronto and in 10
he won the pennant. His fame as
bench manager in Toronto led to
appointment as manager of Detroit,
1903 and 1904.
In 1905 he managed the Indian
polls club of the American associate -
and in 1906 he went back to TDron
Barrow then retired from baseball
go in the hotel business in Toron
He sold out his hotel interests eat
in 1909 and became the manager
the Montreal club that season. Du
ing the following winter he was elect
! president of the Eastern leag1
| afterward called the Information
| league.