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Show NEW MANAGERIAL TIMBER SPLENDID Now York, May 22. One of the noteworthy features of tho baseball season of 1912 1b tho showing made by tho now managerial timbers In the big league. For more years than the average fan can go back, championship honors have been held by a pretty close corporation of managers In the National league McGraw, Chance and Clarke have had a monopoly of the honors. In tho American league, with few exceptions, Hughoy Jennings and Connie Mack have divided things up It had come to be believed that thlh Big Flvo had a copyright on the cham plonship and no others had any business busi-ness butting In. With the piesont season, howevo there wbb Buoh an eruption of ne-a managers aB 1ms not been soon in th history of the gamo. Of course tho standing in May does not foretell the standing In October, but it Is a fact that in both leagues the percentage shows that of the old managers McGraw is the only one who Is keeping up with the paco. Clubs which fought for tho honor of leading tho second division aro now In the first, while championship contenders con-tenders of former years are back In tho ruck. Jimmy Callahan's White Sox are leading his league, with Clark Griffith's Sonators the runner up. In the National Hank O'Day's Reds swept the western board and put up a very pretty argument with the Easterners, whilo Johnny Kling's Bostons held tenaciously te-naciously to tho first division. A month or so from now this may be all changed, but in the meantime tho new managers are having a mighty good time. MISSOULA IS CHEATED. Missoula's baseball club was cheated cheat-ed out of a victory on Its homo grounds Tuesday afternoon when the game was stopped by rain in tho last half of the fifth Inning, with tho score against Helena standing 9 to 1 Tho tally for Helena was gathered in by Qulgley, who hit one over the left field fence in the first Inning Tho MisBouln bos began to hit Mears In the second Inning, and after ho was taken out they batted Rose-borough Rose-borough all over the field, getting a walk, six hits and seven runs in two frames. Catcher Roberts, who sustained sus-tained a split finger early in the game, was replaced by Blankenshlp, the manager of the Missoula team. |