San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-01
NEW LEADERS
RUMOREDFOR
SEVEN CLUBS
Some Changes in Managers
Certain, Others
Whispered.
LIST INCLUDES MORAN
Said Pat Isn't Wanted at
Cincinnati Gleason
Mentioned.
LIST INCLUDES MORAN
By JOHN b. FOSTER.

Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
New York, Sept. THE new man
ager butterfly is lowering over seven
clubs in the major leagues today. More
or less of that always ..appens when
clubs fail to win.
Chance, Mitchell. Robinson, Glea-
son. Moran and Bush have been
"rumored." Foil was rumored. Then
short-sighted policy punct-red him
between the ribs. The st. Louis
Browns have not climbc- skywards
since one of the direct. took TO
travelling on the road with the team.
Baseball owners of the pres mt sell
dom lean on the fence and Il. que with
you as to whether Bill Jones made l
base hit. They a." more prone TO
lean on the turnstile while the little
cogwhcels click their almost noiseleSS
refrain; I'VE welcome them in"
SiSler. it is said. is to be the manager
of the Browns in 1924. That will he
experimental for st. Louis. If all the
other managers in the rumors b1ceau
are to go. where are their successors
to be found? Who vii, take the places
of Mitchell and Chance at Boston
Perhaps Foil will go 10 Boston. 1t
will not be impossible.
Chance Expected Failure.
Chance was brutally frank in say
ing he had no hope of doing anything
with a team that did not promise any
thing. Perhaps the then owner of the
club expected nothing else. Chance
had an awful-looking team at Hot
Springs.
Whether Chance and the new own
ers Of Boston could agree in the flu
ture is debatable. Chance is a very
candid man when expressing himself in
baseball and he wants quick results.
The Boston Nationals need more
than new manager. A lot more. No
manager could put that team aloft.
Ty Cobb has signed with Detroit
again. Why not? He's progressive
and had a lot of bad luck with some
good players. And he is good himself.
Don't overlook that. He isn't the
swooping eagle that he once was. but
he will be able 10 play the outfie.d for
two or three years more if he can keep
his bat going at the rate of 300 or
more.
Some Of the Cinches.
They are not going to dist Irb Me-
Graw. Killifer, Hickey, Fletcher-all-
conscientious. that shap, Fletcher
Higgins, Mack and probably Me
Kechnie. IL Moran isn't W. ited at
Cincinnati he can get on somewhere
else very easily. Gleason for more
than a fortnight has been reported as
not likely to stay on at Chicago. lie
cannot get the team pulling together
well enough to suit himself. Yet there
are more influences than one at Chi
cago and Comiskey Graves another
championship before he gets out OF
baseball TO a state OF rest after years
of activity.
Bush has done no better with Wash
incton than others. but Washington
looked no better in the spring than 1t
has proved to be. Some good kids, but
lack of conservative pitchers. If
noyices are to take the places of these
veterans. how much better off will the
clubs be? And if the veterans re-
main and do not do better. how much
better off will the club be? At Bos-
ton they say they can be no worse off,
which is true. and if "nyone will pre-
scribe a sure stimulant for a pennant
at Washington, Clark Griffiths hair
will turn black again.