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Show , Sports FEDERALSlUTTO BUY NEW PLAYERS . Magnates Decide to Nab Every Willing Jumper From the Big League. (By Monty) New York, Dec. 19. Announce- mentfl and denials to tbe contrary not-A not-A withstanding, it is a fact that the I Federal league magnates hava decided to sign every willing juniper from - the big lencuos who cannot be forced by a court of law to stay with his original employers or be Idle 'Get every good man that you ran. la the order 'sent secretly to every n"ent that dickers for new players. One of tbe leading" Fed magnates c ih'niself has nllowed this fact to leak n out. The Feds realize they are not a quite up to the calibre of the two S major leagues, though the organise tion as a whole, contains at leaat Cil R teen' or twenty players of first cali-l- bre. Accordingly they are going to s 'keer on building up even at great S expense. ,1 Federal Business Outlook. The Feds' idea in a few words, is n this: "If we spend a lot we may v offer a good enough attraction to the public to enable us to break even or even make a little. If we spend a lltftl n ar sure losers of a little. comparatively speaking. We must take the desperate chance rather than j. stand tbe sure thing lose " All the time deep back among the innermost thoughts of each Fed, is the i-lea that the outlaws ultimately will bo recognized by organized base- j ball. Good Baseball Managers. For several years the idea has been gaining ground that a good manager man-ager is a good manager, regardless of whether he is a minor league or a major league chief Any number of cases have cropped up lately of sue cpssfiil heads of minor teams being e considered for jobs in charge of the big fellows. Of course the most notable not-able Instance of a minor chieftain being elevated to the management of a big league club is that of George Stalling?, who won the world's cham pionship with the Boston Braves this year. The Stallings experiment in Boston was such a pronounced sue cess that it may be repeated often in the future. Wild Bill Donovan of Providence, John Ganzel of Rochester and Jack Dunr of Baltimore are prominent can-d. can-d. dates of the sort from the Interna lional league, while Jack Hendricks of Indianapolis is the leading pxanide of the kind in the American Assoeia tion. oo |
