Show t r f t W ClARKE 1 AND EVERS HAVE HAVEl F l BERTHS CINCHED Great 1 r rh eat Four-Cornered Four F Fight k h Possible in Shifting 0 of Managers BADLY WRECKED BY DY HUGH S. S FULLERTON f Two o National league managers arcuro arc J Kurc S uro of ot their Jobs jabs next season e ason on three If the the c appointment of or I levers Evers vels vel's as the H leader ader or of the Cubs CUb goes rocs an and the other five arc nrc groping seeking new leaders It It is not lot improbable that Chicago's P Cubs Cubs Cub now wrecked almost bc beyond ond rec- rec j will from tho wreckage of a n gallant team furnish h the National league with the leaders needed d. d With g Evers ot nt at the head of the Cubs Chance possibly J leading St. St Tinker In charge at att t Cincinnati and managing manag-In Brooklyn It t would make male one of the biggest big big- gest t clashes of old friends vcr over staged iund home hind er 1 every day a almost would woul be e a 3 homo home coming at the west vest side Hide George Georg-c Stallings who always has succeeded In the minors anti and always in the majors returns to tho the big bIb show an as the leader ca er of ot the Braves BrayeR vice 1 Kling retired this time perhaps for good bood Stallings Stalling's raises Boston to a rc- rc p chance to improve for no matter matter mat- mat ter what may bo ho said about hint him as a tI X he lie r is JI a n. good baseball general and a fine jud Judge o of players and antl I f form fora McGraw of oC course conre remains with Nt Now w York and 1111 Evers Bers has signed with t Chicago o Fred Clarke will sta stay with Pittsburgh If f Barney Dreyfuss keeps j hla a agreement l' l ement not Hot to butt Into the aff afI af- af I f fairs of the club The other four Cour arc I all ul tit hit t sea L r. r J A It 1 1 I find that thal tho the valuable experienced baseball 11 men of the minor leagues are growing wise and antl declining to lo accept i Jobs as managers of oC major majol league clubs unless given cn written assurance that they t will be permitted to run the clubs The National league owners and hea heads s of r clubs have lae carried this Interference with j fr their thE managers to a point where It has hass s J affected the playing of or the teams to a marl marked ed lIc degree ree There Is nothing not en e even dl dissipation and antI lack 0 of discipline wrecks a club so quickly a as for the z 3 players to become convinced con that the manager manag-cr Is only a middleman and not L armed with full power Given tho the chance to appeal from the managers manager's j decision to the owner and the club is Js as asgood good as broken up In do part the decline of Chicago's Cubs was wa duo to lo this For a long time Frank Chance Chanco had complete control of oC the men Murphy frequently has hns lau laughed hed to tome 4 me about this and told how Chance j chased him out of the clubhouse when he lie offered suggestions u He approved it T then But Dut wh when whan n Chances Chance's health failed Murphy l began to intrude more and more not so much In actual playing matters but In selection of ot players Two years year's ago Chance Chanc told me me under pledge c of ot secrecy that Murphy l had refused to to toT T get pet the men he wanted and had informed In Int In- In t formed him that he had men good goodenough goodenough enough to win with and to go win with them Last spring Chance told me the t same thing thing- lIe He complained that the scouts had not found a good player In three years and that the team was up t k against it lt i c c X T l On top of oC that Murphy lost George i Huff HuH who practically built bunt up his team i t for or him him and md employed two men neither of or whom know whether Hal Cha Chase Is a I good first baseman or not after watchIng watchIng watching watch- watch Ing him a week Last spring Chance against fig his better judgment followed Murphys Murphy's suggestions sug In placing men Chance knew that his third baseman wouldn't do Ho lie told me so Murphy wrote me at length th about that time telling tell tell- Ing me me how good Lennox was I wrote telling him what I knew know of Lennox from the inside of the Louisville club I knew because men who pla played cd with him for fora a year told me the facts Murphy Murph preferred preferred preferred pre- pre his own Judgment to Chances Chance's or to tho the Information furnished him Sometimes Sometime I beJ believe le e Murphy is a vie vic tint tim of his own conceit It Is evident he lie Y thinks he 1 knows as much about baseball as an anyone perhaps more If he ho will permit per per- mit Evers ers to mana manage c the club It has hasan hasan an nn outside chance of or finishing finishing- In the 1 first division l next season seaon It If not that Is if Evers Bors consents to be merely act act- ing log captain and allows Murphy to to select sc- sc lect the pla players ert and order the changes and style of ot pa play the team will nm run Boston BosI Boston Bos- Bos I I ton and Brooklyn a hard race raco for sixth I and 1 Ind Q seventh OX 7 T. T places es The Time I players ln ers know I o 0 0 J. J c cEvers Evers Is to be oo pitied tl He lIe accepted the Job as manager because he needed the monc money He is willing grilling to stand tand the abuse that will come to him for what there in lt in it Jt Ho Io always alwa's will bo lj be game ame and yet I. I to i see et ee a Ci game ame strung high young fellow go o out and un undertake o to endure what will I be the lot Jot of or Chances Chance's t seems a shame He would ma mane e a good manaI mana- mana I per F ger er under fair conditions conditionS' but ho cannot ho hope for mere melc mercy from the Chicago crowd j They like him but hut thc they hat hato Chances Chance's i successor The National league ue meeting meeting- la late this I month month probably will decide the fate of ot that thal organization Part of the club own- own ers Indeed a majority of them them are arc determined de deL de- de L to squelch the scandals in that bod pod body President ent Lynch has assurance of ot backing from a majority of or th the owners rs and ho ha I Is after both Fogel and ln Murphy Fo Fogel 1 has replied to LYnchs LYnch's charges chanres by i making nt a sweeping dental denial of or all lIe He deS tie tie- de de- S riles nies 11 s t Ba saying ln the National league race raco or the umpires W were re fixed t. t Ho lie denies 1 everything every every- er thin thing charged e by Lynch j Yet the Ull original manuscript signed b by y I Fog Fogel i is m un the P possession of a Chi Chicago o 1 newspaper and will bo be pres presented at t the j I I league with aCl affidavits as to the 4 authorship When this evidence c Is la presented pre pre pre- to the league It is likely to tu I r duce f In U b baseball the his biggest st t sensation ever sprung prof pro- pro I The reporter and tho the newspaper that J secured se the story accusing the leJ league ue of oC crooked work are art k quiet The ir- ir ticla was waa printed in Chicago at a time UA J i when Foel Fogel could not lIa have given it out except b V by mall The Tho Jr I reporter KU wax waa not In n EJ t. t The Tho pa paper r hints that the tho t 4 f Interview view came camo lih direct ct from the Chicago J y club offices ice Mr 11 Lynch sa says 4 that if Ir It U can be proved pro that i Murphy wa was coni con- con corned In th the out of or ther the time writing of oC the articlE ho lie will demand the Ito l ousting r of or Murphy aa as well as Fogel Foel Nice mess mess and and on top of or that G Garry Herrmann fa Is F Io Tf earful of or scandal t tho pa players ers that he lie wants to cut among down their share of oC tho the worlds world's series receipts If the l attempt to d do that Is s made mado wo we have hwe a 3 chance cnance to see ee how much o power and coh coherency rene th tiP the new players players' organization has l The Players will not I land t. t for an such movement i t Tire p Ing la 1 outlook ok for next spring I Is almost 3 3 as mug s' s d up P as is time tho manaca manaI mana- mana I ca sit situation Only two clubs w will es- es s- s Cap big shakeups Q and 1 tho the DoMon o ton fled Rell ed Sax Boston will have Ime one ono t chan ular change e for tor Tat Jak Stahl will not play reri reg- reg ri 1 tr and during the spring training will to break i in as first base base- luan if with nh l' l himself r and amid Bradley to fall run fallt iback j back t i on should the tho youngster o Jn t l' l explode f Clarke ark It f he lie remains at ut Pittsburgh or rather cornea conies back will v stand pat on his I s. s dea III In spite of or his hit pennant w will VIII make at 1 least two r.-A. r. Lii There l big lj d a deals le l' l In prospect and anti the tho de- de t. t nn Ung of or the lite big big- leagues will dc- dc a a a. lot of or Important changes more changes more th than have been made In years ears New Kegs York Boston St St. Louis J Cincinnati Cincin nati and Chicago in Iii the National St. St Louis New ew York Philadelphia Chicago and Washington 1 In the American are aro out outto outto outto to trade trado and there thero is a cha chance ce for some big his swapping during the winter that may upset all all the tho form of or the big league races for or next year car |