| Show r. r V V SCRIBES SUGGEST NE NEW OAK SKIPPER V DECLARE HOWARD V GETTING TOO OLD i VV Del Wise Baseball Head but I Younger Man Is Needed Ne dedi V I V They Say Murphy Would Be Be Fine Lad for Job JobBy V By Ed R. R Hughes V AN FRANCISCO Jan 13 This This being the open season for hiring V and firing siring manI managers managers man man- I agers of ball IV clubs and enlarging enlarging en en- V circuits V and all that sort sorto o or of thing themen the I men who have ha no money invested in the Oakland baseball club think it would be a fine thing V V to have ha a ne new manager for that Club this year ear Whether or not J. J Cal l Ewing president of that I c club will sec see it in that light is I V another matter matter matter-he he is merely tho the principal stockholder of the club 60 he cannot enter this guessing V VV VV c V V V Der Del Howard 1 Is a a. fine tine tell fellow fellow fellow-a ow-a. ow a big lt habit of ot V strapping man he-man who has a a. speaking his mind right front from the t jr heart out arid whose sarcasm has hase 1 e caused used more than one oppressed ball ballplayer player to bite his hang nails because i V he could not think of ot a a. comeback comeback come come- V back Granting that Del Is all of ot that V still the outsiders think a a. new man V should be at the Ute helm of oC the Oakland ball clup this year SUGG SUGGEST ST MURPHY t. t There are those who say that it itE E t V WOud 1 be a a. good thing for tor the league io f Cal Ewing sold the Oakland club jJ tt That is probably true but no one has t Yet t come along willing to gl give gle e Cal V-r-V V 1 gla price so he will willi likely be In oj erge rge again this year Del Howard 4 Owns stock in Inthe the club but when the Y TOy fI s used to fire tIre Del every morning 1 before breakfast last year and the theet r et before Cal Cat came back by saying I that he l not fire tIre Del any more than Del could fire tIre Cal they Cal they were I r 1 partners and one ono had Just as much to tobay V bay ay as the other I V Granting all nIl th that that t still a new man manas manthe I as the field boss bOils of ot the Oaks would V V help It and Rod Murphy Is Just the man manto manto manto V to to fill till the Job Rod would rather boss a ft ball club than be a a. major general inthe in i V U the e marine corps and have all an- hands V V sitting up nights to salute him Rod expects to get his release from the I marines shortly and if It he was put in V V charge of ot the Oakland ball club he V V Would be walking on air and his feet teet would touch the ground only every ot er block And Rod would make a good boss too He is a a. smart mart baseball man hun nan V one of ot the kind who would rather play pay ball bal than eat and he has his 1 V heart In ever every game He Ite would put VV V VV some pepper In the h club and all aU allhands t. t hands know tho the club needs it STOVE V GOSSIP coss lIE Bees haven't a manage as yet ct but Jack Cook Is combing the T T THE quiet towns In Jn California for tor a suitable training camp so that after ater all things arc are beginning to take on tan tangible shape shapo on one side at least Porterville made a n. hit with Salt Lake managers and directors but the good fans fana of ot that little city have about come como to the conclusion that tho the game Is not worth the tho candle candio I Commercial club has guaranteed a portion of ot the floes Bees I training expenses each year ear but last season th thy they y must have lost money on the venture There is a a. strong likelihood likelihood likelihood I hood that President Dill Bill Lane ma may recommend Porterville oven cven If It there is no guarantee forthcoming as tho the little city made a decided hit with the Bee flee proxy With two big league clubs training on the coast Lane belt believes eves enough real exhibition games might bo be arranged so that the club Itself can meet all aU expenses Secretary Jack Cook Cooks Is s looking over I the available training camps and accordIng accordIng according accord- accord Ing to the Oakland Tribune has been casting eyes at near Oakland i President Bobby Blewett of ot the late Pacific Coast International has haa officially notified I e President I 1 Al Baum of the Pacific I g i fc Coast league that Seattle Portland o and Tacoma have been Jeen given permission to toI I enter the Pacific Coast league I S 0 S UI ular Doe Doo ogo promoters m of amateur one aru of the heb baseball most popular popular pop pop- In California Is confined to his bed at San Francisco with the flu I Oakland fans tans have started an agitation I Intended to Inform Cal EwIng lowing and Del Howard that they have grown weary of ot ball bail clubs S S S SLen V Len Hollywood a promising young Infielder de whom the e Bees saw during U I o one series with Harry r Wolverton's e Seals as In Inthe inthe the spring of ot the 1917 season has the supreme s sacrifice fl eN In France b H He lie was s killed In action November e 3 He lIe Hemet met his ls death t Just a year a after he e enlisted en m listed d The Detroit 1 r tl t Tigers s picked tl e 1 him from the town lots of ot San Francisco and turned him over to the Seals for seasoning season season- ing lag S S S Dick Pollard former pitcher pilcher for the Alameda Elks Elks' baseball bl team at San Francisco Is a victim of Spanish Influenza enza Pollard died after aCter a few days das of ot sickness in a hospital S S S The Seals expect to train at Santa Clara If Northwestern l w will IW not sport be p permitted writers writers' t f feel to l rethe re ret retain that t the Seattle franchise Dug Is said to be bea beI a I good scout out but misunderstood In Seattle He lie built a new ball park several years ago and built it In the wrong part t o of arg town and h his troubles started rf right there C S S I Dock White bite former manager of ot the Vernon baseball club and who owned the Dallas team for tor two years together with Ham Rant Patterson and Chink Mattick no rio longer is a partner artner The men Could I not get along so BO Mattick l and Patterson purchased Whites White's Interests Patterson I was In Los Angele for a short time this I year He W w v e day at the e General f Ve ie e g quit Los ft L Los X Angeles r Herala I S S SNick Nick Williams who was appointed a a. captain in the army when the war ended Is said to be Je in lino IIno for the management of ot the Seattle club lie He has had several Interviews lately with Judge McCredIe and it Is known that the owner of ot the Portland club favors him Although It ItI I may be denied that Judge McCredie has anything to do with Seattle his recommendation recommendation recommendation would go a a. long way toward appointing a manager for that club S S S Judge McCredie the old fox tox of ot the north who made It possible for tor the I Coast league to grab Portland and Seattie Seattle Seattle Seat Seat- tle tie and thus make a real circuit Is ex expected ex- ex here before I February 1 to have havea I II a R. talk with Charley Chancy Graham The directors I tors tore of ot the Coast Coas league are to meet here again February 1 to get things In shape for the seasons season's opening and the theold theold I I old Judge will be here before that time timeto to tell Graham and the tha others Just how I things a are up there The Judge e may be begetting begetting ro arsh mY getting along In years but he s still h has young joung Ideas so 80 he likes to come to this mans man's town He will be given a hearty welcome for other club owners are genuInely genuinely lady glad to have him back In the fold told The fatted tatted calf may not be slaughtered on his account but there will be no famIne fam tam ine inc when he arrives San San Francisco Chronicle S S S Seattle Jan 13 D. D. D E fi Dugdale Is 18 planning to sell his Seattle franchise It Itis Itis is rumored that he was offered a sum In excess of ot for iii his rights Another Another Another An An- other report is going the rounds that the deal fell tell through at the last minute With Seattle going Into Ino the Coast league it is believed there will be new blood in at nt the tho head of that organization |
