The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-01-12
NUMBER ONE
men OF 1887
BIB. ARE CITED
Honors Go to Executives OF
Great Sport as Well
as Players

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan 12.-Cita-
tons as to the No. l Man of Base
ball for 1887 are given E G. Bar
row. secretary business manager of
the New York Yankees; William
B. McKechnie, as manager of the
Boston Bees; Johnny Allen, pitch
er of the Cleveland Indians Bob
LaMotte, vice-president and bust
ness manager of the Savannah Sally
League club; Jake Flowers, man
ager of Salisbury in the Eastern
Shore League and Charles Keller
outfielder of the Newark 1nterna-
tional League Bears, by baseballs
national weekly, in its annual
awards to leaders in the business,
managing and playing ends. Just
announced.
Honorable Mention
Honorable mention went to
Branch Hickey. president and
general manager of the ST Louis
Cardinals; j. A Robert Quinn. pres
ident of the Boston Bees, and Tom
Yawkey, president of the Boston
Red SoX. among the major league
executives; Joe Mccarthy of the
New York Yankees, Bill Terry of
the New York Giants and Connie
Mack of the Philadelphia Athlet-
les among the big league managers,
and Joe Medwick, ST, Louis Car
dinals; Charley Gehringer, Detroit
Tigers, Lou Gehrig and Vernon Co
meg, New York Yankees, and Carl
Hubbell, New York Giants, among
the players.
Stand Outs
Other minor league executives
listed as stand-outs are Earl Mann,
president Of the Atlanta Southern
Association Club Paul Florence,
former catcher, now president of
the Durham Piedmont League
Bulls; Roy L. Thompson, president
of the Little Rock Southern AS
ISOLATION Travellers; Joe Becker
+ business manager of the joplin Wes-
tern Association Miners; Sam Pol
itano, business manager of the
Portsmouth Middle Atlantic League
club, and Ray Oppregaard, business
manager of the Crookston North
ern League club Ranked just be-
low Flowers among the minor
League managers are Oscar Witt,
for policing the Newark Bears to
a championship before going to the
Cleveland Indians; Doc Prothro,
Little Rock; Buck Grouse, Balti-
more and Burt Shotton, Columbus
American Association club. Other
leading players in the minors named
are Ralph Kress, former major
league infielder with Minneapolis;
Enos Slaughter, outfielder of Col
umblLs, O.; Joseph Kohlman, pitch
er of Salisbury Eastern Shore
League; Ash Hillin, Pitcher Of Okla
homa City Texas League and John
Grill of Brocksville Canadian
American League.
Citation for Barrow
! Barrow is sited as having contri-
buted much to the success of the
Yankees through his acumen in
handling players, maintaining sour
ces for new talent and business con-
duct of the club McKechnie won
the accolade for his skill in pi-
loting the Bees to fifth place with
light hitters, handling of pitchers
and development of Jim Turner and
Lou Fette. Allen was given the
palm because his feat of winning
Is and losing only one game in a
season, interrupted by an appen-
dicitis Operation. gave him a life
time winning percentage record in
the majors of .739, unequalled by
any pitcher, past or present.
La Motto Topper
LaMotte, a former shortstop, is
credited with being largely respon-
sible for the 1926 attendance at
Savannah the past season, record
for Glass B club. Flowers, a for
mer Brooklyn Dodger and st. Louis
Cardinal infielder, is picked as the
leading pilot in the minors because
he inspired his Salisbury team to
come back and win the champion
ship after dropping from the top
to the bottom by having 81 victories
subtracted on league ruling. Kel-
ler's squirt to the top of the Inter
national Leagues batting averages
in his first year as professional
player is acclaimed as the outstand-
ing performance in the minors.