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Show : GHAIGE MUST PUT WITH CHICAGO COBS Signs Contract for Four Years, . but Feels Indifferent as to Playing. LOS AXGELES. Dec. 23. Frank Chance, captain of the Chicago "Cubs" ball team, gavo ont an Interview here last night regarding tho report that he will not manage tho Chicago team tho coming season. According to Chance's statement, this difficulty Is not due to money matters mat-ters or to any Interference with Chance's authority In Iho past. He said: "I have signed a contract to play with Chicago for three or four years, and if I don't go there I cannot play any place. There Is a little difference between PreM-dent PreM-dent Murphy and myself on the money question, but that Is not serious and I suppose we can fix that all right. I nover said I would pot go back to Chicago to play ball, but that I would prefer not to "go if the present conditions existed next ypar. ' "I have not seen President Pnlllam and do not know whether or not he Is In town. Ho has hinted that ho might want to butt Into the munagement of the team nc?4 year." |