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THE TIMES: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919
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Sepcrts That Ty Cobb Will Lead Tigers Next Season
Are Rapidly Gaining Circulation Few Other
Changes In Team Leaders.
.-few York, Oct. 17. Tfte tail lights
of the baseball campaign are vanish
' ln down the corridors of tirae, but
already come reports- robust and
seemingly authentic indicating- at
least two managerial changes before
-the. guns begin to bark next spring.
The Pirates and Tigers doubtless
'f-will rally to the call of new com
inlanders iv-hen the curtain ascends on
the season of 192i.
So far as Pittsburgh is concerned,
Kit is virtually certain Hugo Bezdek
will withdraw in the. early future,
-perhaps in favor of Johnny Evers or
'-"some other equally prominent citizen.
;,;The case of Jennings, however, is
icloaked in a thick gray shroud of
.r-mystery. Frequently have come ru
,:mors tokening trouble among the Ti
gers in general and Jennings and Ty
Cobb in particular. Xow we hear
Jennings is preuaring to abdicate.
A survey of the remainder of the
field, however, shows nothing to in
dicate any shifts ibeyond the two in
volving Pittsburgh and Detroit. The
campaign of 1919 was one of match
less prosperity. Practically every club
in the major leagues profited. And
when clutbs make money they seldom
change managers.
The resignation of Bezdek. for in
stance, has been anticipated since last
summer when he publicly declared his
intention soon to withdraw as man
ager of the Pirates.
