Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1914 — “REBEL” OAKES IS PITTSBURGH LEADER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“REBEL” OAKES IS PITTSBURGH LEADER

The first break in the list of Federal league managers came recently, when it was formally announced that Enn|s T. (Rebel) Oakes had been named to succeed Harry Gessler as the head of the Pittsburgh crew’. Oakes had been in charge of the team for several days previous, Gessler having been called in to Pittsburgh off the road to explain why he did not win games. He is said to have told the Pittsburgh owners that he couldn’t win in a Class K league with the bunch they had given him, but the day Oakes was put-in charge of the team it beat Miner Brown’s “all-star” team by a score of lsto 7. St. Louis, however, made eight errors—some scorers said nine or ten —and of course that helped the Pittsburgh team to victory. Gessler, it is stated, will be retained by the Pittsburgh club as a scout and coach.

Manager Oakes of P ittsburgh Federals.