The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-20
.M'KECHNIE MAY
BE OBJECT FOR
WRATH LOOP
Farrell Suggests That the
Management Has Done
Strange Things Before
hORNSBY WAS STARTER
Southworth and Snyder Are
Two Men Getting Most At.
tentiOn for Job

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Because there is such good recent
precedent to counteract the i'm.
plausibility Of such . happening, q
tip is herewith offered that . new
manager may direct the st, Louis
Cardinals in 1929.
After the final game Of the world
series in which his team was sadly
shellacked by the New York Yam.
KEGS, Sam Breadon, owner Of the
Cards, was asked by the writer:
"Are there going to be any
changes on your club next year? :"
Eyes, sir" he answered emphatic.
ally. "And some big ones"
"How about Bill McKechnie ?"
"Why shouldn't we keep him az
manager?"
you've made surprising changes
before"
THAT doesn't have to 60 every
year, does it,"
Hornsby Was First
Managers have been going with
great regularity into the St.
Louis job and right out Of it since
1926. It was Rogers Hornsby, who
gave the Cards their first pennant
in ages, who went as the first vic
tim Of . move "for the best inter-
ests Of the team"
Bob O'Farrell moved in and lasted
only one season, although he missed
the pennant by only q game and q
half. Bill McKechnie then got the
job and won the pennant after .
terrific battle with the Giants.
And now, not particularly from
any inference that Breadon gave in
his short talk, but from information
from another good source it is un-
derstood that McKechnie's one-year
contract will not be renewed.
The Cardinals owners are said to
haye proceeded so far in their plans
for 3 reorganization that they are
figuring on either Billy Southworth
or Frank Snyder, two former Giants
and Cardinals, for the successor to
McKechnie.
Snyder and Southworth are now
important department heads Of the
extensive st. Louis farm system.
Snyder managed the Houston club
which beat Wichita Falls in their
plAy-off for the pennant and then
defeated Birmingham in the Dixie
Little World series.
Southworth managed the Roch-
ester international League club
which won the pennant and which
was defeated by Indianapolis in
their Little World series.
Will Be Unpleasant
If McKechnie goes, as it seems
quite probable, it may be that he
will be the opportune victim for
National League wrath as much as
the displeasure Of his immediate
employers.
Breadon is too much of sports
man to make a public goat out of
anyone, and he made only casual
criticism of some things that Nc.
Kechnie had done or had failed to
do in the series. And he made it
clear that he was talking only, as q
second-guessing fan. '
In discussing the club he did
stress, however, that he and Branch
Hickey, vice president Of the club,
never interfered in the management
Of the club. And this may have
been q highly significant slip.
"The manager Of the Cardinals is
absolutely responsible for the re-
suits on the field" he said. HE
chooses his pitchers and his lineup,
and he orders his own plays. It Is
not true that we interfere"
National League men-and some
very important ones - were highly
critical 6f McKechnie. They blamed
him for the rout Of the Cards in the
series, and it is sour dish for them
that their league, champions lost two
world championships in eight
straight games, and the series
dropped to the Yankees was against
q ten-to-one shot team.