Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-20 | Page 16 | Popular Pilot will Again Manage Brownies

Popular Pilot Will Again Manage Brownies i vi &l p RESIDENT PHIL BALL of the St. Iouis Browns last week confirmed the general impression of the fans and complied with their wishes as well when he let it be known that Jimmy Burke would be retained .as manager of the Browns. Burke is entitled to the honor and the confidence placed in him. and his friends ai e confident that with a real chance -as a major league nianasev he will make good. Burke was put in charge of the Browns last July after. Fielder Jones had thrown up the job. Burke found tlie team disgruntled and disorganized, disorgan-ized, and weakened also by injuries to several players and loss of others who had gone into service, but lie pulled the remnants rem-nants together, got their heads up and had them going fast when the end of the season came Labor day. There is no question that lie made good then and there siicHild bo every reason to expect him to make good under belter conditions next season. He's a St. Louis "home boy" and the Mound City baseball colony numbers no more popular member than James Timothy Burke of Goose Hill fame. Sporting- News.'