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Show l AUERICA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS-1929 ; WWVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVWVVVWWWW OXX JB tu. tfacA . tffr. bit. Cochrane. C Grovel zt. fcZTT lv'r""cl .c Stmmons.QZ L tUUer.Qf. Dykes.3B. Haas.ar ' Boley. 3 5 7- ffae, Sub.0""- t'mncJx.SS uihop.2&. Rommel.P. ti-U. $arnshaw;P. in 77 -r I Cs I! -Tl ijtxke,P. M. WalberfP. int. Gumma. Su6. M. Quvn,K int. XurnLB. Zj,t- jim burke once fired McCarthy Ranks Next to Kid Gleason for Length of Service. He made Joe McCarthy carry the bats and Joe did such a bad Job that he fired him Into his first managerial Job. When Joe became malinger of the Cubs the first man he hired was the man who fired him Jimmle Burke. . . ' , You may have wondered who Is the florid, dlguifled man who goes down to first base to do the coaching coach-ing for the Cubs every afternoon, writes Harry Nellly in the Chicago American. That's Jimmy Burke, who Is a coach and not a messenger boy for the manager. "Tomato face, tomato face 1" a rookie shouted at him one day. What Uncle Jimmle replied never can be printed In this or any other newspaper, but it was sufficient to stop the fresh kid. next season. He won a championship and you know the rest." No sooner was McCarthy made manager man-ager for the Cubs than he bethought himself of proper associates. He always al-ways admired Burke, so when the Toledo To-ledo club was In Louisville before the 1923 season was done he broached the subject. "Ho came around with his car," Jim says, "and we drove up on top of the highest hill back of Louisville, Louis-ville, a'l'ni going to the Cubs next season,' Joe told me, 'and I want you to go along.' " 'Sure,' I said, 'I'll go along If you pay me enough money.' Well, I've been here ever since, haven't I? I'm the second oldest coach In the majors. Kid Gleason Is the only older man on the Job. Me? I'm only 04 years old." Here Is Burke's baseball career in brief, he being a third baseman by trade: 1895-D0-'07 Peoria, 111, league breaking up July 4. ' 18D7-D8 Third baseman for Connie Mack at Milwaukee. 1890 Farmed to Bochester, where he helped Al Buckenberger win a pennant pen-nant 1900 Milwaukee again and then with the White Sox, when Clark Griffith Grif-fith managed. 1901- "02 Pittsburgh, winning championship cham-pionship In 1902, but there was no world series. laOS-WOS St. Louis Nationals. lOOO-W Kansas City. 1903 Louisville as manager, later released to Indianapolis. 1909 Fort Wayne as manager. i 1911-'12 Indianapolis as manager and fired. 1913 Imllnnapollg as coach. 1918-'19-'20 St. Louis Browns, assistant as-sistant to Fielder Jones. 1921-'22-'23 Boston Americans, manager. man-ager. , 1924-25 Toledo, manager. Thus he bns the peculiar distinction distinc-tion o having worked for both the managers in the Impending world series and fired one of them. When in Milwaukee Burke got in bad with a crowd of Teutonic fans that always sat back of third base. There was feeling between the German Ger-man and the Irish at that time and Burke was the butt of much rousting. roust-ing. Something had to be done. The secretary of the club culled In the newspaper men. "We are going to make a change at thiej base," he said. "Hereafter August Frlel will play there instead of Burke." Stories to that effect were printed. This tickled the customers and the hammer-throwing delegation would shout of an afternoon : "K-nock 'em down to Owgoost-Frlel Owgoost-Frlel he make 'em oudt. Much bet-ter'n bet-ter'n dat tarn Burke." "And him," observes Jim, "as Irish as I am, but It went over big." Burke Is a kindly man of serious mien. He makes the chief coaching Job a position of dignity and responsibility. respon-sibility. He knows what should be done on and off the ball field and does it quietly, efficiently and in a way that pleases. He has been of vast assistance assist-ance to the young man he fired. "Uncle" Jim has one weakness. He wears a derby hat In winter. "You're on the bats today, young fellow," Burke told McCarthy In 1912. The Indianapolis club of which Jim was manager was going from Minneapolis Min-neapolis to St, Paul and wrestling a leather sack full of two dozen bats was no easy chore. Danny Hoffman, the old outfielder, was delegated to assist McCarthy. "I didn't know whether It was that or something else," Burke says, "but 1 fired Joe and he went to Wilkes-Barr'e, Wilkes-Barr'e, where he became manager the |