Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — MANAGERS ARE PAID $40,000 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MANAGERS ARE PAID $40,000

New York Ha* Pair of Expensive Baseball Leader* In John McGraw and Frank Chance. —' ' ! With John J. McGraw and Frank Leroy Chance guarding the city wall*: and opposing all invaders, New York can consider its interests fairly well:, protected for the next campaign. It isn’t often that a single city can boast of two baseball leaders drawing. $40,000, or thereabouts, a year in the way of salaries. Not often, at least Nor is it often that any one city can look to a pair of managers who within, the last ten years have gathered in eight pennants between them and in, the off years have managed to finish within the fight only a stride or two from the wire. Thesq comparative records show fairly well the quality of Manhattan’s managerial talent for 1913. ’ f * McGraw—Four pennants, . second: three times, third, twice, fourth once. Chance —Four pennants, second twice, third once. McGraw has led the Giants ten ydars. Chance has carried the Cubs forward for several seasons. A matter' of eight pennants out of seventeen starts is about as bulky a pennant average as anyone would care to lamp. Through the last ten years only three managers have carried the flag fight to the wire in the older league, finishing 1,2, 3 in turn. They were Chance, McGraw and Clarke, and now of the three New York has two at the front of her two clubs. The value of a manager is shown in the fact that while McGraw, Chance and Clarke have been forced to rebuild their machines and to discard old talent, they have always kept in the race, whatever their material. Of the 14 Cub regulars from 1906, Chance last season had only four left, and yet stuck to the pace to the finish. McGraw has only Mathewson, Ames and Wiltse left from his 1905 team, and yet while keeping in the race all

the time, built his machine back to a pennant winner canter for 1911 and 1912. McGraw has already planted his standard high in New York. It may take Chance a year to get his bearings, but the ex-Cub leader has shown that he can build up a team and can keep said team going at top speed most of the way. With this pair in charge New York fans are sure to live warfare straight across the campaign and the most interesting season ahdad they have ever drawn.

Frank Chance.