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Show 1 ' , Former L: Club Leader Shows Skill CLEVELAND. Oct. 30 lrT".-Pretl-Cent Alva Bradley of the Cleveland' baseball club announced today ap-; 3 V Ipointment of Oa-, ,-ar Vitt, manager of the Newark club of the International Inter-national league, as new manager of the Indians, re-I re-I p I a c I n g Steve I O'Neill. O'Neill becomes be-comes a Tribe :oach. Bradley an-.- nounced. Replacement of O'Neill as the Clevrlsnd pilot ?ame after months of uncertainty over hia status. Oscar Vitt Vitt. 47. m a n- irad the New York Yankees' Newark New-ark farm club for the last two years, finishing 25S games ahead of Montreal last season and defeating Columbus In the seven-game little World series. He formerly played third base with Detroit and Boston in the American league, winding up his major league playing in the 1921 aruon. Vitt has managed the Salt Lake City, Hollywood and Oakland baseball base-ball clubs, the latter In the 1935 ara-aon. ara-aon. Hs conferred with Bradley today to-day and immediately left for the West coast. O'Neill, the fighting Irishman from the coal mines of Minooka, Pa. waa behind the bat in 1920 when Cleveland won Its only American league championship. He had managed man-aged Toronto of the International league and Toledo of the American association. As a Cleveland manager, his teams disappointed. In 1936 the Indians fell to the second division for the first time in many years. Last season the Tribe climbed a notch to finish in fourth place. Bradley announced that the fu ture of George Uhle and Wall) Schang, coaches under O'Neill would be determined by Vitt. |