The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-17

IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK. Oct. IL

NEW Oftns OLb. Af'
JACOB RUPERT and Ed Barrow
=. got together two weeks ago and
signed a new manager for the Yam
KEGS to succeed the late Miller Hug
gins. Late today the name was 10
be formally made public. can't
understand why Rupper and Bar
row don't wait until April IA and
make the announcement then that
Art Fletcher. or who ever IL Is, is
the new team director. AS things
stand now they seem to be hurrylng
the announcement beyond all rea-
son. of course the sane and sensible
procedure would have been TO tell
the customers who the new man
ager is right after he was signed,
but club owners and business man
ayers have strange ideas about the
conduct Of a baseball enterprise.
The naming Of new. manager is 8
comparatively unimportant detail IN the
endowed with all the mystery and Specu-
iation Of an international diplomatic oper-
alton Is not easily oomprehended.
POSSIBLY TT Is THE HOPE OF THE
MEssRs. RUPERT AND BARROW THAT
THE CUSTOMERS WILL GET ALL
STEAMED UP ABOUT THE NATTER AND
THAT THE LONGER THE ANNOUNCE
MENT IS DEFERRED THE MORE SIGN
F1CANT IT WILL APPEAR.
CTILL a steamed up customer in
- late October is Of practically no
value to the box office. The gentle
men must have been motivated by
some other tremendous impulse,
though I must confess 1 do not
know what it was or is.
I don't see where any great significance
can be attached to the announcement any
how. especially since Babe Ruth refused
70 consider the MANAGEMENT Of the club.
With the Babe in there as manager Won
woald have had real noble experiment
10. watch. with the odds about even that
he would have been either A grand success
OF a majestic bust.
Anybody else figures inevitably to be Just
aims left Of and irving to do a good lob.
7 mean there is nothing about Fletcher
likely to fire the IMAGINATION or arouse
any undue interest as personality.
ITO be sure this isn't essential to
i success in running ball club,
but it is not a handicap and on
team like the Yankees, 1 rather
think 1t is fairly important. 1 don't
believe it's going to make great
deal of difference at that who man
ages the Yankees for the next
couple of seasons. AS they now
shape up they do not figure to get
anywhere against the A. A. AS.
The pitching stan begged down pretty
badly last year and there were noticeable
defects in the outfeld and infeld: I
imagine the not-sO dumb Ruth must have
was not in the race for the Job. Ii is
going to take some time TO rebuild the
Yankees into ohampiopsh,p team ana
akiv will meet uD with plenty of grief
and no little criticism.
A MAN OF TESTED MANAGERIAL
ABILITY STANDS A BETTER CHANCE
TO COME THROUGH SUCH AN ORDEAL
WITHOUT LOSS OF CASTE MUCH BET
TER THAN AN EXPERIMENTAL MAN
AGER WOULD. AND RUTH NO DOUBT
HAD THIS IN MIND ALSO.
n
7 WOULD like to know how much
i truth there is in the report from
tKS Yankee office that John j. Nc
Graw was wanted to manage the
club, and just what was behind it.
1t goes without saying of course
that John j. would have been
notable acquisition, but 1 am won
dering if Rupert and Barrow &C
tually planned to try to lure him
over to the American League.
I SUPPOSE nv incredulity Is due to the
fact that ii is almost impossible TO pic
ture John J. anywhere else except in the
q the b. G .g5nr A f MeG business IS
manage the Yankees would have been what
the bows call a master stroke both for the
local club and the American League in
general.
JUST ABOUT ALL THAT IS LEFT OF
THE OLD GIANTS IN TRADITION AND
BACKGROUND Is PERSONIFIED BY
MGRAW AND IF HE LEFT THE POLO
GROUNDS HIS LOSS WOULD BE sERI-
OUSLY FELT AND CERTAINLY THE
OLD PLACE WOULD NEVER LOOK THE
SAME.
CTILL you never can tell. One
y of these days McGraw may leave
the Polo grounds. The mere fact
that the possibility has been sug-
gested at this time may be signif1-
cant of something. 1t is an open
secret that all is not well within the
ranks of the official family of the
Giants. Every so often there is
fresh manifestation of friction.
There may be explosive develop
ments when the club holds its an
nual meeting next month.
q
So It Is no cinch after all that
MoGraw will close his baseball ca