Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-13
lyANKS HOODOO TEAM
or NATIONAL PAsT|NE
Hundreds of Thousands Lost on Club
and Number of Managers Have
Been Dcposcd.
SEEM PURSUED BY Jim
Farrell, Millionaire President, SQuan.
dercd Fortune Financing Outfit,
and Was Finally Forced To Sell tn
Present Owners.
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Everyone that ever was connected
with it in financial Way has last
has manipulated the managerial reins
of the outnt has known q rather I'M
happy finish 10 his career Nnd prhc-
Ideally every player VINO was With ne
Yankees and passed along elsewhere
failed to make good.
And right now the Yankees are the
only homeless ball club IN The land.
aH, Since 1903. when the club urst came
into existence. its supporters nave
nourishcd many hopes for pennants.
Year after year the Yankees have gone
into flag battles carrying strength in
every department Of PLAY, looking like
world heaters, But accidents and i'll
nesses have come when the future
seemed brightest and the pennant
dreams became Nightmares.
Farrell Lost Money on Team.
Joseph w. Gordon was tile president
of the club from 1908 to sos. Inclusive
and then Gordon passed from view. lie
was never heard from again in base
ball way. and 1t is doubtful If one out
of every 10000 baseball students re
call that Gordon ever REPRESENTED the
Yankees in an executive capacity.
Frank j. Farrell who had financial
interest in the Yankees at tho outset,
assumed the prcsidcncy OF the club in
1907. and survived untu his interests
were purchased by can Huston and
Colonel RUPERT. Ana when those two
was simply because Farrell. once
ranked as several times a millionaire,
had gone broke in financing the out
fit.
Season after season Farrell felt that
the breaks might come TO him. And
SO ho continued putting money into
the project. lie purchased some OF
the highcst-priccd talent in America
and tried to give to the Yankee fans
a team, OF championship calihcr. BUt
always the Yankees failed.
seldom in Sight of Flag.
Il Only three times in their whole
career hid the Yankees. OF New York
finish Within mailing distance of the
Rag. III 1905 they landed second aud
repeated that position in 1906 and
again III 1910
Just how much the possession Of the
Yankees has cost RUPERT and huston
is mystery. Eut Il their losses have
few years OF their ownership. their lot
is lucky one. The Yankees are an
been really great boX-oliice attraction.
And the difference between tho outlay
and the income each Year has run into
hundreds of thousands.
The same iimX that has pursued The
i2wpers of the club has made its
presence felt among tho managers.
Clarke Griffith. who led the White Son
TO pennant heights, arrived at the helm
of the Yankee machine when it started
5on its first voyage in 1903. Griflith
remained with the club through 1901.
-
Griffith oustcd in Ians.
Then differences cropped out and
Grifhth was oustcd Norman t"Kid"D
Elberfeld served out the balance Of
the year, hut was supplantod in 1909
by George StallinGs.
Is The jinN cot Slallincs IN 1910. and
he was oustod without much ceremony.
ella ;!;S.e '""k whirl at the task.
fingered a season ana a half and thcl,.
quit in favor Of Harry Wolverton. Who
led the club in l9l2 made an awful
+ ''iNver OF things and was deposcd
crank Chance arrived in 1913 amid
much juhilstion among the Yankee
fans. At last They insisted, tho
to undymg fame? Hut chance. great
Snana Ger ~ he MAS, nad no more sue
cess than had any Of his predecessors
midseason Of lHIi, 10 hc succeeded by
Roger :, Ieckmpaugh who lasted
through the rest Of tho year. Then
and worked and hoped and fought
through 1915, 1915 and 1917. hut WITH
out success borAsyan Rassed along,
ball club, and Miler is mere Yet.
{ HuSeinS is a splendid leader bu, can
he. hurdle the Yankee jnN ,hat has
alike sixteen gears
Yankee Players disappointing.
20 only rare Few OF the men that
hay, been traded %" sold by the
thing aftcrwaTd. Aud lh. Nanks hacr
disposed 81 many. Grca, caichcrs.
4 4n,, nitcne,S. promising looking out
ers have been with The Y;uNeva and
there iherr careers ended. rncy couldn't
seem TO max" gotd wtth any degree
5,neugh ihey m!Ah' have h-en wonders
before they arrived And fncy couldn't
SHOW much atterwsrd
Chase Is one 'ot the Very few cXccp-
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