Show CHIEF CLARKE OF PIRATES HAS RESIGNED p 4 4 az V 0 manager fred clarke ot of the pittsburgh bu r gh national league baseball club h has as retired from baseball clarke has been in baseball for twenty tour four years yeara with barney dreyfuss Drey tuss owner of 0 the pittsburgh pirates tor for twenty two years and manager of 0 tho the pittsburgh tea team radin ln the national league since 1900 4 clarke has been anxious for some borne time to civo hla his entire attention to his business interests in kansas said dreyfuss Drey tuss in announcing the resignation and while lie he hates to leave the game he feels feela that continuance in it would involve too much ot of a sac bac cloce with the passing of fred clarke baseball will lose one of its greatest managers and most brilliant outfield era ars clarko clarke was ranked among the leading players and managers throughout his career of more than twenty years on the diamond ile he will leave the game with enough of this worlds goods to make him independent tor for conservative estimates place the value ot of his farm lands landa near winfield kan at and besides these he has a ranch in idaho and investments in the texas oil fields clarke won three jr pennants in it a row tor for pittsburgh in 1901 02 03 and a worlds series flag in 1909 ills hla early career was in the southern league and he attracted great attention in the national league in tho the latter as a member ot of the louis villo ville club with the compression of tho the old twelve club circuit int into a an eight team affair the Lou lavUlo nine was transferred to io pittsburgh and clarke was placed in chargo charge that was in 1899 and over sine since a that time clarke charke has been a factor in national league peri pennant nant races with frank chanco chance of tho the cubs cuba and john mcgraw ot of tho the blants clarko clarke formed tho the dig big three ot at the senior circuit and until chance retired several years ago it was the pirate chiefs boast that lie ho had nor nevo out of tho first di division violon tho the pirate chief not only was a wonderful batter and fielder himself but ho he had tho the knack of knowing ball players when he be saw them and time and again agai nhe he successfully rebuilt his club when father time slowed up cog after cog in the machine during twelve of the sixteen years he saw active service in the national league clarke hit in the neighborhood of fred was born bom in madison county iowa october 3 1872 ile he joined louisville in 1894 after a successful season in ift memphis the year previous from 1894 until 1912 1012 when he voluntarily retired from active work clarke was rated as ono one of the brightest stars in the game fred announced cd in the spring of 1912 that he was through as an active player and he did not again appear in the lineup as a regular |