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Show WILL LEAVE TIGERS. This season will probably mark the end of Hugh Jennings' career in the American league The managor of tho Detroit Tigers' ball club, whoso fame as the inventor of the "Eeo-yah" yell Is nation wide, will be a lending Bplrit in the National Na-tional league, according to a rumor golu gthe rounds. Jennings may bo-come bo-come tho head and part owner of the Boston Braves, It Is said, before the clubs lino up for their noxt getaway in 1913. The handwriting on the wall points to a severanco of tho relations of Jennings Jen-nings with the Detroit Tigers. Things have been breaking poorly of late for this baseball leader The critics have begun to pan the Tiger leader, tho fans are chnfing under the poor showing of tho club, blaming it on th management; the players have shown open hostility to their leader, and rumors ru-mors havo been givon circulation that tho owner of the Dotroit club was casting about for Jennings' successor Manager Jennings was quoted last week as saying any time the management manage-ment failed to appreciate tho way be was running the club ho was willing to step down and out and lot some one else trj his hand at producing a winning team with the present material. ma-terial. ' There may bo a reason for the owner own-er of tho Tigers accepting this detl. Jennings may already have completed arrangements for tho transfer of his basoball holdings to Boston, whore ho Is admittedly popular and yhere ho would be given full control In an attempt at-tempt to construct a winning club out of an assemblage of admitted misfits. There Ib every reason to believe , that Jim Gaffney, the controlling own- or of the Boston club, may have singled sin-gled Jennings out as the man of the hour to lead his hard luck team into the land of promise Gaffney and Ward and Kllng have proved a bad combination for the Boston Braves. They have not worked well together. Either Ward or Gaffney must go, as the latter gentleman does not relish the baseball bill of fare doled out by the present head of the club. It is Gaffney who controls the team. Jt If) rumored Ward has little stock in tho club Jennings and Manager McGraw of the New York Giants are great friends. McGraw, as the story goes, has been using his good offices jo land Jennings in Boston. With Gaffnev linked wilh McGraw, and Jennings 'in a deal for Ward's holdings In the Boston club, one does not have to stretch his Imagination lo see a powerful combination would bo formod to put this down and out assemblage as-semblage of cellar champions on their 'feet and make them popular with a big portion of Hub fandom |