Show DUCKY HOLMES TO MANAGE BUTTE CLUB Former Forner BI Big League Player and Western League Manager Man Man- ager Signed BUTTE BUTTH Mont Oct 30 Ducky y Holmes will manage the Butte baseball base- base ball baU team for tor 1914 and he be should prove a good goott man for tor tho place as M he can play pity ball baU a as well as u h handle bindle tho the club The directors havo have not yet yot ot officially confirmed Holmes as aa manager managers but will make their decision public within a I. few days day when the papers are drawn up up and id properly signed Holmes has had a great deal of experience ex cx p rienO DR H a player an and a It manager and in the tiie Western league which js Is pretty retty fast fart company ho never finished Jower lower than third place Holmes is a third baseman bueman but if it ho can cnn develop elop some orne youngster for lor Buddy's Buddys place will go ro to the outfield and pull down lown thelong the I long lone drives Holmes Holmes' best card is his I batting Ho He is Ia a 8 natural hitter and I while no longer a kid 11 can can conn connect conned eel I with tie the hair ball regularly often for long drives Ho He i is a scra scrappy pv ban ball pI player who has hIlS his tenon team up on toes fighting fight fight fight- ing lug for everything and always springing springing spring spring- ing tho unexpected on the other fel fel- fel I lows JOWl Holmes winters in Glasgow i Mont and return returned tl d to his home yesterday yes yes- I I after a n. conference here with Larry Duggan and Ed Murphy Murp-hy at which an agreement was reached reached and nd t terms were arrived at af agreeable to all concerned and nothing remains but th the formal signing o of a a contract by Holmes who will at once got gat busy and picK nick picKup up player players for the the- local team so 10 that Butte can con get off olf to an even oven break brcak with tho the other teams and keep in front fighting for tor the pennant Ducky Holmes is an Iowa boy and started out as a a. pitcher quite a number of years rears ago Then Than h he be became amo a 1 catcher an and his wonderful took him into the big leagues with practically practically ti no no experience except a J year r with l a minor minor league club He went wont to St. St Louis and from thero there to tho famous fa fn fa- fa Baltimore Orioles Ho He and ancI McGraw played on the team together tORether with other famous big league stars Then he be was with New York for or a time tim and after that with Co Co- s white hite Sox He played tho the outfield for about ten years in the big leagues es and he was a 1 consistent hitter bitter I About eight years a ago he was in in- urea lured in a game one of 01 his bis legs being badly twisted so that he had to go goon goon 0 on the tho bench for tor a I. I time Comiskey who thought a great deal of him encouraged encouraged en en- ed him to try management for himself So Ducky Ducly went to Lincoln Lin Lin- l coin coln then entering the tho Western league and bought the tho franchise Ho gathered gathered gath gath- ered a team and finished third in the therace therace therace race which was a wonderful performance perform perform- ance for lor ho he had to build the club from practically nothing At the end of the season Lincoln capitalists bought him out for the club was a a. a moneymaker and ann the Nebraskans Nebraskan had hacI visions of big mono money for Ducky had sold Pitcher to Boston and Shortstop o Gay Gay- aner a ner to the White Sox Sor along with D Da Davidson Davidson Da- Da nason an nn outfielder Sioux Sioux- City which had been struggling gling along in in- the Western as ag a a. con OIl for two or three seasons sea sea- sons wanted anted Holmes to take over the team He finally agreed to do eo so closed cosed the sale of his bis franchise in Lincoln Lin coIn coln and bought a a. h half lr interest in the Sioux City club Taking the holdover holdo bunch that apparently ap couldn't get out of the rut ho io secured three or four players and with a n team which some of the other ula magnates thought was a joke went wont to work rk and aDd began tho the battle for a decent decent de de- de cent standing in jn the tho percentage table Presently the whole league began to sit it up lip and nd take Doti notice e. e The despised w were re playing ball ban t that at was generally termed Ii over over their heads Slumps lumps were ware predicted 1 but hut Holmes came came down to the wire viro in a close doso finish for the championship with Omaha Five games gaines arn were yet et to be played and it was necessary for Holmes to win four nut but ut of oC the five to cop the pennant If he ho won three he would tie The rhe closing series between th these two clubs which took place on oti Sioux City grounds was wa tho the most exciting In the history of ot the estern Western league Great crowds attended And the Sioux won four out of or the five fi games ames The pennant Dennant race was practically decided on a Sun Sunday ay when Al AJ 1 a preen green n South Dakota I pitcher threw two shutout games gamel winning winning win win- ning the first 3 to 0 and the last lut 4 to 0 O O. O lYe lie allowed In itt both games Just five fi hits Jilts anI and passed but one mane man Jimmy Freeman Free Free- Freeman man lOan clinched bed the pennant next nut day by again shutting them then out 6 to 0 O. Furch Furch- nan man was sold Bold to Cincinnati but butt sickness put Iut him out of or baseball The following year car Holmes lost the pennant to D Des Moines by Just two to points He was jockeyed out of the tre nn flag by Dick with whom he be had a quarrel durIng during dur dur- ing InK the seaon ea n. n Cool C at that time In Inthe Intha Inthe the the tha hearing of or A hundred men told Holmes he would throw J games to any team that stood lood a show chow to beat him Two To of his players player made the same state state- mint ment Sure Sur enough eno It happened that Des Moines was mu close enough enouch to make malce it In te for or Sioux City and Cooleys Cooley's team dropped twelve games in Ie a row to D Des s Moines and brought ht the Iowans lowans up to within a few tew points point of ot the top In the series nt at Omaha Rourkes Rourke's club manac managed t to break even with Sioux City and Des bes es Moines was enabled to scratch out th the Championship by two points The result save gave the fans tans of or tho the league a bitter taste and Cool Cooley found it convenient to Let t out of or the league Ducky Duck was as BO so disgusted b by the result t t. he sold his hi Interest in the club and went want south to man manage e the Mobile cl club b In th the Southern league let He lIe brou brought ht the club from a tan tall end position to third place In Inthe the race rac that year and the next year he was aa signed to manage the Toledo club In the American association A Armour the owner had bad always alwa's Interfered J with his managers mantH but he agreed to keep keen hands off oTt while Holmes Rolmes was at the helm But h hi h couldn't do It and Duck Ducky Immediately resigned He did nothing the balance of f the season and part of or the next but finally finally fin nn ally alb went over oyer to Victoria a tall tail ender in tn the Northwestern 1 league The club start start- fd 4 d winning as 53 soon eoon as nil Holmes took hold and ant cleaned up up up about of or f the remaining thirty games gamt'S of or the season This year Sioux City CIt which had been In the dumps for Cor or two or three years se secured secured lie se- cured Holmes i services As always 18 Ducky Duck insisted Incited on being given hen a free fret hand In Inthe Inthe the management of th the club His JIls pitchers pitcher pitch pitch- er ers era did not go well welt the first part of or the season eason but were ere gradually rounding to tO tn when hen wh n several of the directors be began an horning n. n It took only a a. few rew of or that stuff to cause Que Duck Ducky to quit I Then he came cam to Montana secured ur a I ranch a about bout thirty mIl miles from Glasgow and with Uth a n. brother began stocking It I I He lie went through the coast cout l leagues late hate In the season on a R scouting I trip for tor an eastern league club an and then returned t to his bis ranch ranah |