Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
BRAVES PRESIDENT
SMART FIELD BOSS
Players Recognize Ability of
Man Who Never Played
Pro Base Ball.
BY the Associated Press.

Emile FUCHS, NEW DIX
judge. will sit this Summer on
~ a strange bench, and with him
will rest the hopes of the Boston
Braves. THE Judge" as he is called
by every one in base ball, will find this
open-air court quite different from the
ones he knew In New York.
He cannot issue a citation for con-
tempt of court against fans disagree
of the verdicts returned against his
club will be subject to appeal
The head of the Boston forces in
the National League Is conducting one
of the most daring experiments in base
ball. He has stepped from the sheltered
confines of his executive Office to the
field itself, and although he has not
donned a base ball uniform to replace
the judicial robe of other days, he
is no less the manager.
There have been other presidents who
were managers, too, but almost with
out exception they were. like Wilbert
Robinson of the Brooklyns, former
major league players.
Manager Fuchs best base ball play
ing was done for the Orange Athletic
Club. A combination of circumstances
including an injury to his arm and
service in the Spanish-American war,
thwarted his ambition to make base ball
his profession.
In seven years. connection with the
Braves he has developed into a close
student of the game as 1t is played
by experts. A part of the time he sat
at the feet of base ball Gamaliel, the
immortal Christy Mathewson.
Manager to Players.
At first glance 1t would seem i'm
possible for club president to lay aside
a pen to pick up a bat with any hope
of success, but the mild hammered
Fuchs with ready, pleasant smile and
sympathy for all mankind, certainly
has chance to get away with it. He
has accomplished one-third of his
task already by selling himself as a
to convince the fans and opposition
clubs.
He will be assisted by two stalwarts
of the game, Johnny Evers and Hank
Gowdy, co-heroes In the 1914 four
game world series triumph of the
Braves over the Athletics, but Presi-
dent Fuchs is Manager Fuchs Just the
same. He proposes to give his ideas
thorough trial and If he Is wrong he
says he will be the first to admit.
On the playing field will be found
at least two men who know lot of the
game. The diminutive Rabbit Maran-
vile, another 1914 Braves star who
since then has seen the base ball world
and George Sisler, former manager OF
the st. Louis Browns, will be very
active In carrying out the instructions
Of 1.-The judge" Gowdy may join the
playing forces for so games or so.
Sisler has rounded into superb form,
and gives every indication of being the
Sisler of old, when he was the Ameri-
can Leagues leading batter and most
valuable player. Gowdy does not seem
to have changed In Is years.
Ex-Cubs Look Good.
All the Eve players Boston took
from Chicago have shown good form
in the Spring workouts and promised
to help the club. Mcguire, a sensa
tional fielder, Is established at second
base. Louis Legett will get chance
to do plenty Of catching and Percy
Jones, Bruce Cunningham and Harry
Seibold will ut nicely into the pitching
staff. Seibold is not a youngster but
has ripened in the minors.
Kent Greenfield, Bob Smith, Edward
Brandt and Arthur Delaney are
veterans who will again be available
Ben Cantwell and Bill Clarkson, who
went from the Giants to the Braves,
Henry Wertz. former Brave, George
Peery, Wichita recruit and G. "
Leverett, former White Sox, trying to
come back to major league base ball
are in for free for all.
The inf1eld will be made up OF
Sisler, Mcguire and Bell on the bases
with Maranville and Farrell at short
The feet Lance Richbourg is the only
outflelder sure of his place. Earl
Clark and AL Moore may complete the
trio, leaving George Harper, Heinie
Mueller and Jack Smith to fight for
the other places.
Pat Collins, ex-Yankee, the veteran
Zach Taylor and Dick Smith. the
Notre Dame foot ball star who caught
for Montreal last year, may make up
the catching staff unless the ancient
but nimble Gowdy, takes hand.
The jury will begin its deliberations
in about six weeks.