Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — RALPH WORKS PANS HUGGINS [ARTICLE]

RALPH WORKS PANS HUGGINS

Scrappy Little Manager of New York Yankees Is Blamed for Poor Showing of Team. Ralph T. Works, who has a large following in St. Louis as a writer on baseball from the “inside” angle of a player, has some sharp criticism of Miller Huggins in his daily column in St. Louis Republic, in the course of which he says: A few weeks ago I wrote an article tn which I stated the New York Yankees were not playing smart enough baseball to win the pennant in the American league and would not stay up in the race unless they changed their style. That 17-inniqg game Thursday surely vindicated statement. There is just one man responsible for that defeat and in my mind that person is Miller fluggins. , Huggins is no doubt a fine fellow personally, but. when It corries to managing a ball club in the American league he appears to be in a position too big for him. , '