The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-10-11
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Talk Has Manager Bezdick of
Pittsburs Not in Harness
Next Year
HIGGINS OF YANKEES
NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL
Moran Will Certainly Try
to Repeat With Reds
Next Year
HIGGINS OF YANKEES
NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL
lBY United Press.)

"stove league" which keeps the ma
tional pastime alive during the snow
period.
The favorite occupation of picking
new managers for the 1920 season
started before the curtain had fallen
on this years championship race. AS
is usual there are wholesale rumors
Of changes in the leagues and the
personnel Of the various clubs.
President Heydler, of the National
league, put his foot on the throat of
the yarn that the St. Louis Cards
franchise was to be turned over to
Minneapolis interests and the Boston
Brave club was to be run farther up
north to Montreal. Rumors of
change in the ownership Of the Chi
cago Clubs have also fallen by the
way. Frank Chance recently an
nuonced in Los Angeles that he and
Barney Oldfield had been in the no.
ton of buying the Cub team but
had changed their minds.
Bezdick to Quit.
A new hand at the helm of the
Pittsburgh Pirates next season seems
almost assured. Hugo Bezdick will
go back to Penn State to take charge
of athletics according to reports and
he will be succeeded as boss of the
Pirates by George Gibson, the old
popular backstop of the club. Be-
dicks work didn't please the Smoky
City fans. His connection with vari-
GUS collegiate sports gave him the
theory that physique was the only
requisite for ball player and that
he could take husky, well built Chap
and make a ball player out of him
like they do around the college
campus with football and track ma
terial.
But it was proved long ago that
baseball players aren't easily made.
McGraw tried it with Jim Thorpe
and. didn't meet with much success.
Gibson has been successful as a man.
ager of the Toronto International
and he has quite a following who be-
lieve he can make the go as a big
league pilot. His experience with
Fred Clarke and McGraw should have
given him some good ideas of win
ming play and the old catcher has
personality with it. Lee Foil, de-
posed Indian chief of Cleveland, is
also being mentioned.
Another change agreed upon as
sure by the dopesters would transfer
the reins of the New York Yankees
from the hands of Miller Higgins
to Wilbert Robinson, the Dodger
boss. Robby is said to be content
with hi spresent job as far as rela-
tions with the club owners and the
team 60 but he has his eyes on larger
pay slips and the Ebbetts syndicate
can't pay him as much as the wealthy
colonies could afford for man who
would make a champion team out of
the Yankees.
Hussins Not Howling.
Higgins hasn't been bowling sue
cess as pilot of the Yankees. The
showing the American leaugers made
this year was a distinct disappoint-
ment to the Gotham fans who early
in the season had visions of a worlds
series played straight through on the
Polo grounds. Higgins didn't get
himself in wrong with the club own
ers by his failure to land the pennant,
but the little leader is said to be
longing for his old love-the National
league.
Some of the fans are predicting
that the Dodgers and the Yankees
might switch managers before the
teams hike off to the training grounds
next spring.
There seems to be little foundation
to the rumor that Jawn J. McGraw
is going to retire from the manage
ment of the Giants and Pat Moran
will certainly try to repeat with the
Reds unless Garry Hermann and
company pull Baker" and give the
Irishman his walking papers. STALL
ings is slated for a removal from
the bridge of the Brave bark and
Ed. Barrow seems to be in "dutch"
also with the Hub fans.
Iris Speaker covered himself with
glory during his late season drive
with the Indians and he will no doubt
get a long term parchment from
Owner Jim Dunn. If Connie Mack
develops anything out of several
score of infants that he has on the
club roll he may return to the good
graces of the Quaker City fans.
Outside of all these little uncer-
families everything seems to be lovely
in the playing families Of the major
1eag}RSs sfiRhffuits.
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