The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
JENNINGS FIRST
AID TO M'GRAW
Late Detroit Pilot Signed by
Giants to Be Assistant
Manager.
HIGGINS ON YANKS' NEEDS
Must Have Another Pitcher
and Outfielder Next Year
Sport Gossip.
By WILLIAM Il. HANNA.

ny WILLIAM II. HANNA.
Hugh Jennings will cat grass and do
his ee-yahing at the Polo Grounds next
season. He and John McGraw have de-
cided that the Polo Grounds' fodder will
be the best Tor Hughey from now on,
and so next year the late pilot Of the
Detroit Tigers will be assistant manager
OF the Giants JennIngs's signed con-
tract to that effect arrived yesterday,
and he therefore returns to the National
League. which In the years gone by he
adorned 30 long as a player, for Hughey
when he was an active performer was
one OF the best shortstops OF his or any
other time. He was a member or the
immortal Orioles of 1894, 80. 20 and
's7, and here next year we shall have
him and John McGraw and Wilbert Rob
inson, who played side by side on the
Baltimore Birds when they were the
greatest team in the game. all three IN
leadership roles In the metropolis. The
old whirligiS OF time again
McGraw is not to be any the less an
active manager of the Giants than he
has been. He will continue to sit on the
bench and be the boss, immediate and
otherwise His contract as manager has
another year TO run. He isn't relinquish-
ing any of his duties or prerogatives. In
time, yes. but for the present he VIII De
just as much of n manager as ever.
jennings will take the coaching lines,
will carry out McGraw's ideas. consult
With him. make suggestions. help develop
| and handle the men--in short be full
| fedged assistant manager and succeed
ing Johnny Evers In that role.
| It is no inconsequential position Jen-
nings has taken. He turned down offers
of big league management to accept this
! job. The move will be a popular one.
sure. jennings is a great favorita OF the
! fans here a live virile, chromatic entity
who can radiate pep and personality.
Miller Higgins came to town yester-
day for few days conference with
Messrs. Rupert, Huston and Barrow OF
the Yankees administrative department.
He said he was much pleased at the
appointment of Barrow rs business
manager About his team for 1921 he
dscoursed
1.-THE Yankees must be strengthened
for next year. What we need most are
pitcher and an outflelder. It is one
thing to want them and another to go
out and get them: but am going to
make a determined effort to get these
two and fully expect to do H.
my preference is for a left handed
pitcher, but am not one of those who
think southpaw il essential TO n pitch
! ing staff A good right handler will do
I II we can't get the other kind. but we
must have another pitcher. My outfield
hasn't suited ME for some, time, and I
! hope to change IL so as to make IL
stronger defensively. That's the kind OF
new outnelder ] want one who can
cover ground and make our defence out
there better. My second choice IL THAI
kind isn't available. Is for one who is
fast on the bases and will give US more
speed that way"
The Giants are almost sure to return
TO Texas next spring to train, and 1t
may be the Yanks WILL train in The same
commodious State. They have been cast
ing eyes toward Dallas. but no move
has been made toward engaging a train
ing camp for the next vernal season.
| The old familiar haunts OF Jacksonville
are n possibility. and so is New Or
leans IL the Clevelands do not go back
there. Col. Huston has written to New
! Orleans inauiring into the situation in
the Crescent City.
It is quite possible that minor league
| presidents who are dissenting from the
Lasker plan, the project for Imperative
reform indorsed by numerous of the
ablest men In baseball, will feel different
about II when they get to Kansas City
on the 9th and hear just what its ad-
vocates have to say. President Heydler
Of the National League said yesterday
he thought those minor league officials
who said the minors were to have nc
voice in naming the proposed Board OF
Control were wrong. I'VE want them
to have a voice and name one of the
members of the board and have sought
their cooperation" he added.
! Thirty-two checks were received at the
office of the Giants yesterday to be dis
iributed among McGraw's players. They
represented sl6.l16.20. the New Yorl
clubs share OF the worlds series money
for finishing second In their race This
has been divided into full shares. hal;
shares and one-third shares. s6ss30
S34415 and s229.43 respectively. Fif.
teen of the checks were sent to Johr
Evers in Cuba to be distributed among
a team of Giants playing there. The
Yankees haven't received their third
place money yet. 1t will amount tc
about $500 a man.
Hugh Duffy. who managed the To
ronto club this year. is regarded as tho
most likely man to take Ed Barrow,
place as director-general OF the Red Sox
Bill Carrigan is mentioned. too. and
probably Frazee would be glad to ge
him II he could. Carrigan was an abb,
manager. a top notcher. when he retired
to go into business In Maine Harr,
Hooper has his supporters, and Fraze'
could go further and fare worse thar
the capable rightfielder.
what about Fred Mitchell TO take IN.
Braves next season. Would you con
slider him2" George w. Grant was asked
yesterday. II would. | would consider
him seriously II in n talk with him
learned his ideas would FIT in with mine
I've never had any negotiations viii
\ him. however"
The weights OF the williams football
players who will lock horns with Co
lumbia this afternoon are as 0llows
Joslyu, end. 1897 Codding. end, i5S
Lasell, tackle. 175; Fargo. tackle. 10
Laws, guard. 1872; Fulle. guard. $50
Smith centre. 1897 Boynton, quarter
back, 1872; Burger. back. 145 Mclean
back. 156 Richmond, back. ISL.
Any impression that Babe Ruth hal
taken a violent dislike TO Miller Hug
gins and declared he wouldn't remaii
on the same payroll swith him is IA
nfield the veriest nonsense in fact Rutl
has never tried TO run things on tn,
Yankee club. and 80 far az his work OF
the playing field is concerned he nevel