Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-20
Review Of Sports
and Athletic News

st Louis, June 19.-The resignation
of Fielder Alanson Jones, as manager
of the ST Louis Browns. to devote HIM
self to his lumber interests at his home
in Portland. removes from baseball one
of the smartest players in the game,
according to baseball men. He has
had brilliant career, having won an
American pennant and u worlds series
championship while manager Of the
Chicago White Sox in'190s.
r AS manager of the ST. Louis Federal
league team in 1915 he came within
1000 of a point of giving st. Louis
it's only championship pennant since
1883. But it was his work with the
Chicago White Sox that put him in the
front rank as manager With dash
over the top he led the Sox from the
second division for nineteen straight
victories. trampled down al opposition,
bagged the American league pcnnant
and then crushed the great Cub ma
chine and won the worlds champion
ship.
The Cubs, by winning lie games
that season, had startled the baseball
world. 1t was said the machine could
not be beaten. but Fielder Jones did
the unexpected, Just as in fs14 George
s;tallings lead the Boston Braves for
grand sweep from the lowest in the
standing to pcnnant winners and final
| ~ championship of the world, over
Connie Macl<'s invincible Athletics
Always Near the Top.
hn IF
the White Sox on June 5. 1904, sue
at the close Of the 1905 season. never
having finished out Of first division
He was third in 1904, second in 1905,
| first in 1906, and third in 1907 anu
1908.
| was out of baseball, devoting all his
time to his lumber interests in Oregon.
It is said that he amassed a fortune.
In 1914 Phil Ball and Otto Stifel per-
suaded Jones to come to st. Louis and
take up the direction Of the st. Louis
Federals (Terriers).
He succeeded Mordecai (Miner)
Brown, as manager. With the team
acquired from the former management
he finished in eighth place. In 1915,
however, he was defeated for the Fed
eral pennant by only 1900 Of a point,
when George Stovall. who at one time
was manager Of the st. Louis Browns,
and who managed the Kansas City
team in the Federal league, beat him
in the final game Of the season.
| In 1915, after the peace agreement"
had been signed by the Federals and
organized baseball. and Ball and his
associates purchased the Browns and
amalgamated the teams, Jones was
made manager, supplanting Branch
Hickey, present president Of the Card
mails who was made business manager.
In 1915 the Browns finished in fifth
place, the first time that Jones had ever
finished out OF first division when he
had had charge Of a team during the
entire season. In 1917 the Browns
finished seventh.
Recalls Famous ISLANDER Case.
It was during 1917 that the famous
baseball Islander cases" came up.
There had been rumors of discontented
players, but on Sept II, 1917. appeared
what purports to be an interview in
which Phil Ball alleged several players
were laying down" on Jones. AS a re-
suit of this purported interview two
players sued Ball for $4,000 each for
alleged SANDER. The suit never came to
trial but were settled through Presi-
dent Ban johnson Of the American
league, according to statement given
out.
While Jones never testified during
the taking of disposition in the case, he
repeatedly asserted his belief in the
sincerity of the players. After Jones
left to spend the winter In Oregon
Johnny Lavan and Derrill Pratt, plain
Itiffs in the suits were traded. -Four
kilograms, it is said, were sent to Jones
before he answered giving his approval
The Browns slump just previous tc
Jones' resignation,Sis said to have beer
a disappointment to him and when hi.
team on the day before he resigned lost
lin. the ninth inning. he is said to have ,'
decided definitely to quit. % II