Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-03 | Page 9 | Davis Resigns, Joe Birmingham to Guide Naps

DAVIS RESIGNS 4 1 JOE BIRMINGHAM i iTO k TO GUIDE NAPS V Storm of N Newspaper Criticism F Forces arees Cleveland Manager Manager Man- Man I ager to Quit STOVALL INDUCED ACTION k I Cleveland Cle Sept Sopt 2 Harry Harry II L DavIr manager of or tho the Cleveland Americans Americano resigned hl his position today under n. n t. t I storm of or criticism from tho the Cleveland I newspapers Outfielder Joe Binning Binning- of or ham management was temporarily handed tn the th-e l' l reins rein's 1 i The teams team's poor showing Davis Davis' Inability Inability In In- r ability to hold tho the position In which j the nine finished la last l year ear Stovall's success ss in St Si Louis and tho tile pre press S all combined to force DavIs from his berth On a a. recent trip east the team lost fifteen out of ot seventeen seventeen seven- seven Iteen I- I 1 teen games and this morning Stovall to make mako Davis' Davis gall the bitterer took the first game gam the St. St Louis manager I himself being partially responsible for fi- the victory S Davis came to Cleveland last fall with tho the brightest of oC prospects Sto Sto- vall vaIl who succeeded Lajoie as manager c had brought Cleveland into third place I and Davis fell Into the tho possession of Qt f k III IIII I a a. brilliant fielding and hatting organ- organ The loss boss of ot Stovall at first t. t however was felt and Davis has hns failed to get a man to round out the tho 1 1 Infield Stovall recently appointed manager o of the St. St Louis Louia Browns has hns made good from the Jump and his hi team although at the bottom shows promIs of ot developing Into a great nine gf Qt youngsters young This fact driven homo home day after atter da day caused Da Davis to throw up UJ the sponge His contract was wag for I but one year i y Birmingham the new manager is i. a n a. a Cornell college graduate who broke brok into the big leagues through the medium me- me mel meU U l of the New York State league t He HeIs is a n. strong outfielder and an ox- ox executive In his college days day he was a a. great football player as well as baseball player and also held high hlen scholarship stan standing