The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-02
Sidelight on
New SOx Leader.
Frank Chance
BY Billy Evans

KNOWN In baseball, Will DO much to
restore the waning prestige of the
American league in Boston.
Frank Chance is man of strong
convictions. When he signs to man
age a club, he does that very thing.
He is master of all he surveys,
brooks no interference from anyone
and woe to the player who fails to
obey orders.
Chance is regular herman. The
player who is regular fellow and
obeys rules never hears from Chance.
With the baseball fraternity he is
very popular. There is none Of the
fourflush about Chance, he is either
for you or against you, and he wants
the world to know it.
Traded Bunion for Onion
Chance is inclined to the serious.
From the time the game starts I'M
til tho finish, he is fighting for vic
tory. He likes players of the same
temperament. No kidding on the
bench on any ball club he manages
OFF the field Chance has a kee1
sense of humor and enjoys the fun
ny things in life as we'll es the next
fellow
Just prior to his resignation from
the management of the New YORK
=, Americans he coined an expression
that lived for some time in Ameri-
can league circles.
Hal Chase wasn't playing to suit
Chance and trade was made with
the Chicago club. In return for
Chase, New York got Rollie Zeider
and Babe Borton. -Zeider, who was a
mighty good infielder was much
needed by New York.
1t seems that Zeider was afflicted
with bunion that became very pain
full the moment he dOned a New York
uniform and he was unable to play
for sometime.
The trade of Chase for Zeider
didn't set very we'll with some New
Workers partial to Chase. One dag
just before game at the Polo
Grounds, certain newspaper man
who was strong for Chase, asked
Chance what he thought of the deal
Chase by the way, had made good
start with Chicago
1T was an even trade" replied
Chance. 81 got bunion for an
onion
For years the Chase-Zeider trade
was so known in baseball
Batted Out of Order
During IA game at ST. Louis, Chance
unknowingly became party to one
of the most extraordinary batting
out-of- order plays ever staged.
The Yankees were playing the
j Browns and were getting good
trouncng. George Stovall was then
managing the St. Louis club.
In about the eighth inning Chance
decided to call upon his reserves.
He went to bat for the pitcher, who
I believe, was Ray Fisher. Chance
hit safely His pinch hit started a
rally.
After scoring the first run of the
inning, enthused with the rally that
he had started, Chance went to
the coaching lines at third base.
fellow by the name of Derrick
VS. playing short for New York in
that game and hitting eighth. When
it came Derrick's turn to bat some
one yelled to Chance that he was
up again.
= On his second trip to the plate he
again singled, scoring the two runners
on the bases at that time.
AS I recall the incident, New York
made seven runs in that inning and
ultimately won the game 8 to 8.
After the side had been retired
the ST. Louis scorers conveyed the
information to Stoval, that Chance
on his first trip to the plate had
hit for the pitcher and on his second
he had batted for the shortstop.
When he hit for the shortstop he
batted out of order. Had the mis-
take been discovered Chance would
have been made to look very foolish.
As it was his hit when so batting
won the game.
The protest came from St. Louis
too late and the umpires could do
nothing. Chance, however, did some
thing. Walking over to Derrick, who
had failed to take his place at bat
during the seven-run rally, he re-
marked:
"Take your glove with you to the
bench, that's where you will play
from now on, you have played your
last game with New York" 1t so
proved.
An Unusual Experience
| had very unusual experience
with Chance which shows the char
acter of the man.
In the first half of the eleventh
inning of a game at Chicago, Roger
Peckinpaugh, then with New York,
tried to score from second on sing
NE to the outfield. Hap Felsch, who
kandled the ball, made wonderful
throw to the plate.
Ray Schalk, taking daring chance
SO blocked Peckinpaugh that he was
ball, which arrived a trifle of
seconds after Peck had slid into
Schalk, got away from the Sox's
great little catcher.
Schalk, however, never gave up
and in some way managed to hold
Peck away from the plate until he
recovered the ball and touched the
runner.
/ ruled that Peck had the right to
score, since Schalk had blocked him
from the plate without having the
ball in his possession.
While such claims are often made,
such a decision is a rather unusual
one. However, in this case there
was no dubt in my mind, l felt that
Peck was entitled to score.
Chance, who had been coaching
at third, not knowing that i had