New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
Benton and NcCorty Sign
Contracts for Another Year

vestigate the cotton market as 10 talk
terms with the boss.
Rube is North Carolina farmer. and
while he was away last season toiling
for the Giants and for Uncle Sam the
old homestead developed some thirty
odd bales of the well-known Southern
commodity of agriculture. Which would
have been a modest fortune for the
Rube had he unloaded at 80 cents
pound RUDE intends to let the hired
help continue to build fences and VIII
go into nicotine as a side line this
year
McCarty, who for some reason or
another hibernates at Catawissa, Penn.
sent Mr. Foster the glad tidings that
he had fully recovered from his many
honorable wounds which handicapped
him more or less all of last season and
that he is ready to make young Earl
Smith step lively for recognition Nc
Carly, when right, is a mighty valua-
Bile catcher, for he is possessed of a
wicked wallop, which he uncovers, as
a rule, IN the pinches.
Midget Miller Higgins, the manager
OF the Yankees, just got back No,
dear reader, he was not at Colonel Til
Huston's party, but in much safer
and quieter place good old Cincinnati.
Hug. Will hang around the White Way
for month or so-till it is time to
head for Jacksonville with his Yankee
flock.
Higgins is going so to arrange his
plans as to reach the spring base on
Sunday, March %. Training will start
the next day A few of the veteran
pitchers may precede the main squad.
or may even go to Hot Springs to boil
out for week or ten days. As yet
Higgins has not decided whether he
will take the bunch South by train
or by boat. The voyage appeals to the
hardy Miller, as he thinks a possible
rough passage might be better than
medicine for the lads.
Huggins's sojourn in the Middle
West was barren of result as far
as certain contemplated plans for
strengthening the Yankees were con
cerned. He had high hopes when he
left New York a month ago of adding
at least one hitting outfiel der, and
perhaps two, to his roster before this
time. Rival club owners who had the
goods Higgins coveted talked trade
They were willing to give a toothpick
for a lumber yard. The Wee One,
however, has not given up in despair
He has set his lines in other direc-
tons and may get a bite in the i'm
mediate future.
Bill Clymer, one of the best known
and successful of minor league man
ayers, who piloted the Louisville
American Association club 10 the end
of the abbreviated season of 1918, will
manage the Seattle club Of the Pacific
Coast League the coming year.
Bill hit town yesterday morning, If
repressible as ever and determined to
lure some talent away from both
Giants and Yankees. He says he
hasn't ball player as he faces his new
Job, and that he is expected in the Far
West by March ready to begin spring
training. The schedule of the Coast
season, which heretofore extended over
a period of seven months, has been cut
to SIX months.
Manager Wilbert Robinson Of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, paid flying visit
yesterday. He came here to consult
President Ebbets on certain details
connected with the spring trip to Jack
sonville, Fla. Robbie expects TO be in
the fight all the way if he gets back
his soldier-players.
A suspicion is gaining ground that
Charles Webb Murphy's association
with the Cubs may have been due to
the fact that the astute National
League orator of some years ago may
have come back because of certain IN
fulfilled obligations on the part of
those IN control and hanging fire since
the settlement between organize base
bail and the Federal League.
Mr.. Murphy is supposed 10 have in
vested $4,000 in Cub stock But he is
doing lot of talking for his money
anyhow, and has intimated that he will
move heaven and earth to have the
Cubs forsake the North Side park and
return to the base of its halcyon DAVIS.
the West Side grounds.
Tht West Side is not so elaborate as
the brick and stone edfice that Weegh-
man erected when he launched into
the Federal League enterprise. The
old wooden stands are more or less
dl'aFldated through misuse. But the
grounds and seating capacity, both. are
far more capacious than the crampcd
cigar box now in use and which cannot
be enlarged should the future Of base
ball guarantee the attempt.
Ot course, it may be that Murphy's
talk of reviving the West Side is but
another angle Of bluff which he has
been attempting to force the sale of
ms property. Adjacent to the West
SIDE grounds IS a big hospital. and. of
course. baseball at the old stand would
be doubly unwelcome to that institu-
ton, which has enjoyed so many years
OF peace and quiet.
That Delaware County League, which
was supposed to have contemplated q
raid on major league players. is not
progressing favorably in the enterprise
Some weeks ago it was announced that
Frank Baker and Billy Southworth
would be with the outlaws the coming
season. Southworth has signed with
the Pirates. The Yankees have every
reason to believe that Home Run will
be with them again.
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