Show Insist That Chance Will Manage Cubs Br 1 Tb The Tb St Radii edal 11 News New Service Berried PHILADELPHIA Nov 14 A A letter let let- letter ter written in the home of Joe Tinker in Chicago and reaching here today told that Frank Chance had been appointed appointed ap ap- ap pointed manager of the Chicago Cubs to succeed Tinker The letter was received by Wade Powers the automobile tire man from his mother Mrs J. J A. A Powers who left last week to visit Mrs Tinker Mrs Powers is a sister of the moth moth- law in of Tinker who makes her home with the present manager of the Cubs That part in the letter relating relating ing to the sensational change in the management was brief It merely read Frank Chance has been appointed manager to succeed Joe Tinker Joe left today on a fishing trip There was no other reference In Inthe Inthe inthe the note This was the first Inkling of such sucha a move When incredulity was expressed expressed ex ex- ex pressed Powers said You can take my word for It that Tinker Is out and Chance is the tho new manager lily My mother knows baseball and would never have written what she did unless it it were true I presume be he continued that and the other owners of the Cubs told Joe Just how things stood and advised him to go on a fishing trip and they would make an official announcement of the change during his absence Frank Chance was manager of the Cubs in the days when Chicago was wasa a power In the National league He took over the Yankees In 1913 and was in control for two years Since then he has been on the coast |