Show JIM BURKE ONCE FIRED MCCARTHY ranks next to kid gaeason for length of service he made joe mccarthy carry the bats and joe did such a bad jb that he tired him into his first job joe became manager of the cubs the first man he hired was the man who fired him burke you may have wondered who Is the florid dignified man who goes down to first base to do the coach ing for alie cubs every afternoon writes harry in the american that s timney burke who Is a coach and not a messenger boy for the manager tomato face tomito bacel a rookie shouted at him one day whit uncle hemle replied can be printed jn this or adv other newspaper but it was sufficient to stop the fresh kid youie on the bats tod y dounn fellow buike told Mart martha hv in the of which jim was man ifcher was BIS abin nea polls to at ciul and a leather sack full of two doan bats was no aisy auire binni the old was delegated to assist mccarthy 1 I know whether it was thit or something elie but I 1 fired joe and he went to likes barre where he become annaer nn the next season he won a championship and you know the rest 0 o sooner was mccarthy made man agar for the cubs than he bethought himself of proper assoil ites lie ul ways admired burke so ahen the to ledo club was in before alie 1025 season was done he broached the subject lie cam around with his car jim ais and we droe up on top of the hill back of I 1 auls alle 1 I ni going to the cubs next seison joe add me and I 1 want you to go along sure I 1 said go along if you pay me enough money ell iv been here eer since lucent I 1 I 1 in the second oldest coach in the majors kid gleason Is the aldei man on the job me I 1 m only 54 beirs old here Is burkes bae bill career in brief be being a third baseman by trade 1895 90 97 leorla league breaking up july 4 1 1807 als third base roah for connie mack at milwaukee farmed to rochester eliere he helped al ivan a pen nant 1900 milwaukee again and then with the white sos nhen etli managed 1001 02 winning cham in 1902 but there was au world series 1903 04 05 st louis nationals 1900 07 kansas city 1908 louisville as manager to ina lort wayne as manager 1911 12 indianapolis as bangt and fired as boich 19 st louls browns as 4 sostant to halder jones lar 22 23 boston americans man f nger 1924 25 toledo manager thus he has the peculiar alon of having worked for both the in the impending world series and fired one of them lian in milwaukee burke got la had ft ath a crowd of teutonic fans tint abw ns sat back of third base there was feeling between the german and the irish at that time and burl e the butt of much const ing hid to be done the of the club called in the new men e are going to nuke a change at third bise he said hereafter august arlel will eliy there instead of burke stories to that were printed this tickled the customers cist omers and the delegation would shout of an afternoon knock em donn to kwost he amke ein much set tern dat tarn burke and him jim as irish us 1 arn but it went over big burke Is a kindly roan of sermons mien lie makes the chief coaching job a position of dignity and cespon he knows what should be doni on and off the hall field and does it quietly efficiently and in u way that pleases he has been of vast assistance to the loung nun lie tired i uncle jim has one leikness wei kness ue I 1 wears a derby hat in winter 1 |