Show HERE IS IS' TEAM MANAGER WHO FIRED OWNER SAN FRANCISCO Ja Jan 27 Fate i Fate lit literally tIt lit cruEl crall Harr Harry Sterling Wolverton Wolver- Wolver ton into baseball A bit of of hazin hazing Innocently Int Intended but Lut extremely c disastrous In results back In tho the college colleS t days laII turned d. d him from front a Q career of higher education to one of or hurlIng hurling hurl hurl- ing lag the flus elusive o pill pm across tho the avid wastes wasted of the diamond dl Wolverton erton explained it Jt thusly We Ve e wore era elect elected d to move o one of the thebo bo boys boya along alonS' In Iii the thc the two o of U us George Georgo Dunham Cle eland Cleveland eland Oo 00 and myself myself my my- self r After ACter which occasion It 11 was decided that for th the best beat Interests of ot all Dunham and myself should resign n college college col col- col- col lege loge and take up some somo other walk alk of ot life Dunham went mining In Alaska and nd made millions and I 1 turn turned d to baseball All of or which ha happened pen d twenty years ears ago ajo In Wolverton rol was a student In George Georgo Dunham Cleveland O. O A and my my- self After which m memorable occasion It Yo Wolverton began his career In baseball In 1893 1895 as a pitcher with the tho Paulding 0 O. team at a salary of 60 a l month The next season found him with Columbus 0 O. In th tI Western estem league at the time limo when hen Ban Johnson now dictator of or the Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans esna waa waH president of or the smaller and weaker boly boJ In Hn Wolverton ol shifted to Dubuque Dubuoue la In and was shunted hunted from the pitchers pitcher's box to third base bae a berth that proe proved hl his own for tor tho the larger 1 part of his career In n he lie took his place In Inthe I the bl big bis brush with the Chicago o Nationals Aft r a n year ear with the Cubs elton Yol Jumped to tho the Philadelphia Nationals with whIch team he played for Cor Coro five o years ears For the last two tv seasons son ho captained club and also alo played t In 1905 1903 Philadelphia sold him to tho the BO Boston Hon N Nationals After fter a season with Boston a auY uY dispute arose arOte and Wol Yol erton after practically nine years in the bl big league Jumped out of or tho the bl big brush and Joined the outlaws with the i lilian-is- lilian port club In the tIme tato league Here took his first managerial job and ond incidentally he gave c tho the club a two time pennant winner In 1307 1107 an and 1908 Frank Farrell Farren o of the Now ow York Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans drafted Wolverton ol In 1909 but In Instead Instead In- In stead tead of using using- him with the Yankees sent him to Newark While managing tho the Newark aggregation Wolverton achieved tho the unique distinction of firing tho owner of the club off the tho field d on divers occasions occa occa- Later when Pitcher Iron Man oran McGinnity purchased the tho club Wolverton Wol or ordered or- or dered the Iron Man Ian off the the lick field four dif di- di ferent times and had to call caU a policeman to enforce the order After a year ear on the Pacific coast Wol Wol- v became camo rna manager of the Yankees I mu In 1912 For r tho the 1915 ee season he will l bo be back oh ob the coast a as ft manager manac-er of or the San Francisco S Seals |