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Only Four Leaders in Each Big Circuit Have Proven Top-Notchers
SUCCESSFUL MANAGERS SCARCE IN BIG LEAGUES
By W. J. Mcßeth.
_ itH so many changes of
\A/ managers of National
• * league clubs as now seems
~ tire to happen, the changes in
. h , (M rsonnel of several teams will
follow in the natural course of
events.
Xew managers, as a general
• ; ;ug. desire to reconstruct their
own teams to conform to their in
dividual ideas, and none of them,
■f they have any initiative or orig
irialit.v— and they will not make a
5U ,. c , ss as leaders if they do not
luve that desirable mental qualifi
ljtjnn- but will strive to improve
on their predecessors.
Th■ r employers, the club owners,
nil: surely look for improvement,
gn d some of them, with the char
acteristics of Charley Murphy, will
demand a decided change for the
better. If the owners did not ex
pect -ucli a transformation to their
betterment and , advantage, the
chances are they would not have
decided on the important and se
rious shifts they have announced.
In fact, it appears to me as if
some fit the owners have not con
sidered seriously enough the im
portance of the great changes they
contemplate and by all reports have
finally decided on.
There are sixteen clubs in the
two big leagues and that necessi
tates the engagement of as many
managers.
The really successful managers
can be numbered on the fingers of
one's hands. Os the National league,
McGraw. Clarke, Chance and Bres
nahan are top-notchers. The Amer
ican league list of managers who
can be considered as strictly first -
class are no more than four—Stahl.
Griffith. Mack and Jennings.
Cubs’ Defeat Boosts Callahan.
Jimmy Callahan, of the White
Sox since his team beat out the
Cubs this fall, has improved the
reputation he made for himself
during the season, and his single
year's experience may enable him
to get in the front rank next year.
The grave situation that there
fore faces the clubs that are go
ing to make changes of managers
is plainly evident. Good managers
can not be picked off trees like
cherries. They have to be born
leaders of men and with personal
characteristics that enable them to
stamp their personalities on their
teams, either in victory of defeat.
They must understand human
nature, and there Is more diversity
of nature and dispositions among
professional baseball players than
possibly can be found in the same
number of men in any other walk
of life.
A successful manager of a bast
hall club must be diplomatic H>-
must know what players to smooth
down and salve and who to drive
to get the best work out of ills
men. He must be level-headed him
S' If in the face of obstacles sin h
as contests on the diamond always
produce and he must restrain the
too hot-headed players and prod
the laggards, but know exactly how
to do It.
He must know more baseball,
too. than any of his players or make
them think so anyhow. He 'must,
above all, be his players’ friend
and adviser. And to do ail this
he must have his players’ thorough
confidence.
How many of the new managers
t iat are to be appointed have all
these traits of versatility?
Has Johnny Evers?
He is the man upon whom all
1 hicago lovers of baseball have
tiieir opinions set, and there are
shout as many different opinions
shout his capabilities, abilities and
characteristics as there are fans.
Johnny Evers Is a most capable
hall player. He is wise and shrewd;
ouick to see a point tn the game,
ra Pid in mental action to take ad
vantage of any opportunity to gain
8 Point and knows baseball thor
oughly.
Evers' Temperament Not Best.
He has been very erratic in tem
mrament of late, or since he met
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with business reverses and figured
an automobile accident a few
years ago whence intimate friend
sLeV WaS killed ' Those "ere
■ hocks to his naturally nervous
on S titution that fora time threat
ned to stop permanently his base
‘■areer: But . b < “cam, back”
last season as strong physically as
ht a ?r ” eVer P ' ayed better b all
m his life than he did in 1912
.Bf th ! slra,n of the hot strug
gle in which the Cubs were con
stantly forced to be, owing to the
1 tase of the Giants for first
Place, appeared at times to disturb
is mental equilibrium to such an
extent that he became almost too
rampant on the field, and was fre
quently suspended when the Cubs
nee ed his valuable services the
most.
Evers, though, was always so
very anxious to win that before his
Ffodder for fans
Mur U p b hy b had P l spv'S ,h V their " bl >"
year The strange part of it is m n Vhe M? uthe A n - lpa ß ue narkts were hit eight
spy was not there toreport breaches of ’” s 'T? r , The sisn 1,1 Atlanta has
tiaining and discipline but to tell Mur I.'A jeen lift, jt appears that it would
Phy what the plavera said about him a y ,o move baplt 'bose signs
i . . at)oUt hlm - " b '£ b are being hit often and to bring
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fn n, ! . r / n ', 1° bis best ’n that role and .
monev than > br ,C a 1,1 ~ ha< he has more ~A n . anti-booze contract would have rid
when' he 1 ") ’* thought was in the world the Atlanta team this year of several men
fore the y ‘ paying ball. There- . ail of whom would have been but brtef
pmtk jolC eSt <n ’ ” tbe m °nc.v. why tlie 5 an< bghtlj missed.
The national board of arbitration of th o within A b, £ s - Texas southpaw, once
<’^ dl < b " ly ear n ‘
woik to wade through. • « «
Whilo inhn *i * ‘larry Herrmann says he would like to
other dav n Un.?' ?? e , . w^ s . hunting the cut down the money won by placers in
Asa rlt;,u bramb,p hit him in the eye. the world s series to a Hat stun of. say
one eve ' " e niav lose ,h<? sight <>f . 0 fur the winners and .faOO for the
>e , , losers. Then he would divide the rest of
W \v Mi l's, ■ ■ . pla , yers ’ share among the players of
land' or - •t' of the Port- 'he other fourteen clubs in the major
Shrnn. r • b:is a complicated leagues. This is a poor guess. If the
the earn" l,ase,! i l ' l , s " tba ' Iday.-rx did not get a keg ~f money they
•Irinee met'" " 11 llavc a 1 l >la .v :ls Hard. the Series would
Scheme f«n i tv money. His whole be less interesting in consequence and the
it is foiinde i ,‘; UK '• because money divided among the other big league
baits' \vm , ”■ u , nsit: 'bl. salary limit players would give so little to each man
,3\. i somi bodi can ueternime a that it would hardly interest him.
" a > ,>° makp salary limns stick, he has « « .
information Vhaf /'woHh having”””" ( ,n'a^trm verly/ V '
avuoo ni one ol ' his relatives.
" hen barns nil g Cubs play« • » •
at Dixon, 111 . Heitiie Zimmerman knocked ~
the first ball t.itched him into the lt.u k Harney Dreyfuss has waived Cole out
river The ball was n< t recovered -iik! ■" f 1 bl ’ National league and lias turned him
Zimmerman was held to two basis under over 111 Columbus.
a ground rule, so the play was almost * ♦ .
a total loss. The umpires of the big leagues have
g-ort actually perked up enough Io ask the na-
uJrrU, M .’ ' ' ’’V ‘'‘ ‘.'o^'' A, ' ss "'’" al commission to give them a share
Haun i . I it... . t s ~.,"t,i in ~, th,,, world s serii s monev equal to one
.. * * winning and one losing player. They
( lark, itifftth las antioitn<cd lat he propose that each umpire who works In
will not be able to use Roy Moran on i the series be given $1,090 and that there-
ine \\ asnington t« am next \ '"H . I muinder be divided among - the < then l>ig
- • « ] league umpires,
Griffith has not given up hope M t that « • •
he will he able to make use of Harry Says a head in an Eastern paper:
vveicnonce. Hero of World s Series
* Task ' Then why do it? There's no
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TFFSDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1912.
trouble he was more or less of a
"crab, but he never allowed his
excitable failings to carry him dan
gerously far from the rules laid
down for the conduct of players.
Was Cause of Attack on Lynch.
This last season he did, as is a
matter of baseball history, and it
was his suspension that caused
both President Murphy and Man- ■
ager Chance to unjustly accuse
President Lynch, of the National
league, of being unduly prejudiced
against the Chicago club.
As a matter of fact, though, the
Cubs were used more leniently than
any other team in the league, and
President Lynch was forced to take
a defensive position on that ac
count.
Now, the question naturally
arises, is Evers so constituted in
his personal make-up that be can
be a successful leader of the Cubs?
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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29.—Those close to
the "inner circle” of the Cardinal club
say Roger Bresnahan was dismissed
because his contract called for too much
money.
It is stated on excellent authority
that Bresnahan’s contract called for
SIO,OOO per annum and ten per cent of
the net profits. In addition, stipula
tions were made in Roger's contract
that the whole officiate of the Cardinal
club should receive not more than
SIO,OOO in salaries.
That is, if Mrs. Helene Britton chose
to hire a president; secretary, treas
urer. groundkeeper, stenographer, press
agent and a few lawyers, she couldn’t
disburse more than SIO,OOO among the
whole returns of servants. That's
where the rub came.
It is understood that Herman See
kamp, the treasurer and business man
ager of the club, received $5,000 a year.
That left only $5,000 to be split up be
tween Stenographer Davies. Ground
keeper Shaner and his assistants and
the attorneys. If Mrs. Britton elected
to pay out more than SIO,OOO to all her
help she was obliged under the term,
of Bresnahan's contract to charge this
against her own account. Thaj is,
Bresnahan would collect his ten per
cent of the net profits before any
amount in excess of SIO,OOO for salaries
had been deducted from the annual
earnings.
So-called expert baseball men say
that Miller Huggins can be retained as
manager for a salary of not more than
$6,000. It is understood that Huggins
is now receiving $4,000. A $2,000 a year
increase and a chance to make good as
manager Is sufficient inducement to
make Huggins take up where Bresna
han was dropped off. That means thp
local club, by supplanting Rresnalian
with Huggins, will save surely $4,000
a year and possibly twice that much
by the elimination of the ten per cent
clause.
BY CLEVER INFIGHTING,
DICK HYLAND GETS DRAW
CALGARY-, ALBERTA. Oct. 29. Joe
Bayley, lightweight champion of t'ana
da. and Dick Hyland, of San Francis
co. fought a fifteen-round draw today.
Referee Tommy Burns' decision was
popular.
Hayley had a decided advantage in
i lie open fighting, but was puzzled by
Hyland’s incessant in-fighting.
COLUMBUS GETS 40 NAGS.
COLUMBI’S GA.. Oct. 29. —More
than 40 fast horses will be seen at
I'n races at the Georgia-Alabama fair
November 27 to December 7.
Giants' Manager Does Not Blame Player for Error That Cost World's Title
SNODGRASS WILL PLAV WITH (HANTS NEXT YEAR
By Sam Crane.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Fred
Snodgrass will be a member
of tlie Giants next year. This
was the declaration made by Man
ager John J. McGraw, of the
Giants, last night.
Instead of roasting the player,
who has been the most reviled of
any who ever played the game of
baseball, McGraw spread the salve
thicker over Snodgrass by saying:
"I do not blame Snodgrass for
making the muff that lost the
Giants the world’s championship.
Any player is liable to make an er
ror. Snodgrass helped to win tlie
National league pennant, and he
will be a Giant again next sea
son."
Snodgrass, when he arrived home
in Los Angeles. Cal., a day or so
ago, is said to have stated: "I was
frozen to the marrow when I muff
ed the ball."
It Is an' odds-on bet that Mc-
Graw, while sitting on the bench
at Fenway park, in Boston, did not
have in mind to ask Snodgrass to
sign a new contract for next year
—not at an increased salary, any
how.
On the contrary, 1 will wager
there was a blue flame of blas
phemy that would have set fire to
an asbestos contract and melted
Snodgrass’ frozen marrow into a
yellow pea soup.
And that is w’hy all one sees and
hears on tlie stage is not really
real.
McGraw Held on to Merkle.
McGraw held on to Merkle after
tlie historical incident where Fred's
"failure" to touch second lost tlie
Giants a world’s series, and Mer
kle's work since that time lias
proved McGraw's judgment to lie
all to the good, with the excep
tion of a play in the last game of
this season's world's series, tlie
same contest and Inning in which
Snodgrass made tlie muff ilia: as
sures him another engagement with
tlie Giants.
it would appear, therefore, that
the best recommendation any play
er under McGraw has to hold his
job is to make'some bone play that
loses the most important series that
van be played “nd thereby arous
ing the general condemnation of
Hie metropolitan populace.
There is nothing, perhaps, so ap
pealing to the big majority of right
minded and level-headed people as
for one in authority, a big man. to
stick to liis old friend through thick
and thin, and indeed it is an ad
mirable trait. McGraw lias it, be-
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yond a doubt.’ as he has proved
many, many times, but the disturb
ing fact remains just the same that
the big majority of baseball fans
w hen they are “fanning” are neither
right-minded nor level-headed.
They -are reasonable enough and
really sensible when they are not
looking at a game of ball and some
unfortunate player pulls off n
"Snodgrass" muff or a "Merkle"
failure to make a catch or a muff
Then they become rabidly rampant
and chortle. But they are the peo
ple who pay their good money to
keep the game going and enable
club owners to erect million-dollar
Bi ush stadiums, pay managers' sal
aries. etc., etc., and their feelings
of like and dislike should be con
sidered.
Always Unpopular in Gotham.
Snodgrass will never be a pop
ular player as a Gtaru with the
New York public. McGraw may
force him on local lovers of the
game through a false feeling of
sympathy, but it might prove a
dangerous move.
It would be an altogether dis-
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ferent proposition had Snodgrass
proved himself a great ball player
dining liis career as a Giant, but lie
has not been more than mediocre in
ability except during one period
when he flashed temporarily as a
contender for an automobile that
was to go to the champion bats
man of tiie National league.
There can be no disguising the
fact that in three post-season se
rie-; the Giants have played since
Snodgrass was on the regular team
that he lamentably failed to come
up to the scratch. Records show
that and they are indisputable.
McGraw himself has been so dis
gusted with the player's work many
times that he has frequently de
spaired of him altogether and
threatened to laj- him off. but still
he kept,him in tlie line-up.
The results gained by McGraw as
manager of the Giants possibly
should exempt him from criticism
for the way he selects his team,
but I am voicing public opinion as
expressed by the big majority of
local fans and friends of the Giants
in the Snodgrass case.
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