Evening star., 1927-12-08
ART GOES TO TRIBE
BY YANKS' CONSENT
New York Glad That Coach
Has Chance to Better
His Position.
N yEW YORK, December @.-I
IN Selection of Arthur Fletcher
VI as manager of the Cleveland
i Y Americans makes new pilots
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| S6l6CtlO1 Ol arthur fIGtCiCA
VI as manager of the Cleveland
/ Americans makes new pilots
for four Major League clubs
next season.
The other appointments, announced
previously, find Bill McKechnie direct
ing the destinies of the Cardinals.
Jack Slattery at the helm of the
Braves and Burt Shotton guiding the
Phillies.
Fletcher's appointment by General
Manager Billy Evans of the Indians at
Dallas yesterday met with the appro-
val of Miller Huggins of the Yankees.
who is attending the base ball confao
there. Fletcher was coach for the
Yanks during the last campaign. but
his assuming the managerShip or the
Indians was agreeable to Higgins.
Expressing the sentiment of the
Yankees on Fletcher'S new position,
Secretary Edward Barrow said
We certainly will release Fletcher
to become manager of the Indians.
Furthermore, we will wish him all the
luck in the world on his new job. He
is a mighty fine man and his services
with the Yankees were Of the highest
type and his connection with the club
an agreeable one. We would have been
glad to retain him as coach in which
post he did yeoman service this year.
But as manager of the Indians. he
will have a much wider range for
his baseball talents and we are glad
that the chance has been afforded him
10 better himself"
Fletcher's first professional game
was with Collinsville, Ind, in 1907, the
town where he was born al years ago.
From 1909 to 1920, Fletcher gained
fame with the Giants as one Of the
best shortstops in the league. In
deal for Dave Bancroft, Fletcher went
to the Phillies. where he played short
until the opening of the 1922 cam
paign, when he was made manager of
the Phils. He was pilot of Philadel-
phia up to the close of the 1926 sea-
son after which he was signed as New
York coach. Fletcher made his debut
in the majors after seasoning with the
Dallas club of the Texas League.
DALLAS, Tex, December R.-
Selection of Art Fletcher, Yankee
coach, to replace Jack McCallister as
manager of the Cleveland Indians.
featured several days of comparative
inactivity in deals at the National
Base Ball Association convention here.
The announcement, made yesterday
by Billy Evans, former umpire. and
new business manager of the Indians,
came DIS d surprise 10 DdSe Udlt IleL
here as Evans had previously declared
appointment of a manager was unex
pected for some time.
Release of three former major
league stars by the Toledo Mudhens,
champions of the American Associa-
ton, also enlivened the player-deal
discussions. Emil Qrish) Meusel, bull !
let Joe Bush and Everett Scott, who
holds the record for consecutive games
played, were the players given uncon-
ditional releases.
Other deals included: Whitley Eel
ber, Oklahoma City Western League
outfielder, to Chattanooga of the
Southern Association; Arthur Fraser,
pitcher, Portland, Me-, New England
League, to Toronto, International;
William Englishman and Roy Cur
tain, infieIders, Knoxville. Sally Lea
que. to Evansville, Three l League.
J. Benson Brillheart. southpaw pitcher
for the Chicago Cubs, will go to the
Minneapolis Millers.
Jimmy Poole, brought from the |
West Coast to play first base for the |
Athletics last year, was purchased by |
Atlanta of the Southern Association.