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Newspaper Page TextOnly Four Leaders in Each Big Circuit Have Proven Top-Notchers , SUCCESSFUL MANAGERS SCARCE IN BIG LEAGUES By W. -I. Mcßeth. . fITH so many changes of \ y manager by National ' league clubs as now seem , . to happen, shifts in the per . :.el of several teams will follow i, i- natural course of events. N ,v managers, as a general th -r, desire to reconstruct their teams to conform to their in ci. lual ideas, and none of them, f . y have any’ initiative or orig in, ty—and they will not make a ess as leaders if they do not . .. that desirable mental qualifi ation—but will strive to improve on their p'<edecessors. I’heir employers, the club owners, v. surely look for Improvement, an some of them, with the char h. ..ris'ics of Charley Murphy, will de ind a decided change for the better, if the owners did not ex pe< i such a transformation to their betterment and advantage, the chances are they would not have de. Med on the important and se rious shifts they have announced. In fact, it appears to me as if > .me of the owners have not con sidered seriously enough the im portance of the great changes they nt. nt plate 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 sou—Stahl, Griffith, Mack and Jennings. Cubs' Defeat Boosts Callahan. Jimmy Callahan, of the White Sox since his team beat out the Cubs this fail, 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 base ball club must be diplomatic. He must know what players to smooth down and salve and who to drive to get the best work out of his men. He must be level-headed him self in the face of obstacles such 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. Ho 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 all this he must have his players’ thorough confidence. How many of the new managers that are to be appointed have all these traits of versatility? Has Johnny’ Evers? He is the man upon whom all Chicago lovers of baseball have their opinions set, and there are about as many different opinions about his capabilities, abilities and characteristics as there are fans. Johnny Evers is a most capable bull player. He is wise and shrewd; quick to see a point in the game, rapid in mental action to take ad vantage of any opportunity to gain 8 point and knows baseball thor oughly. Evers Temperament Not Best. 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O. with business reverses and figured m an automobile accident a few y ears ago when an intimate friend ■shnev S WaS killed ' Those were shocks to his naturally nervous constitution that for a threat! ned to stop permanently his base fas 2 reer - BUt he " came back” last season as strong physically as m m a ? d neVer p,ayed better ball in his life than he did in 1912. But the strain of the hot strug f anuv'f ' h a the CubS Were eo,i stantij forced to be. owing to the hot chase of the Giants for first P ace. appeared at times to disturb his mental equilibrium to such an extent that he-became almost too rampant on the field, and was fre quently suspended when the Cubs needed his valuable services the most. Evers, though, was always so very anxious to win that before bis FODDER FOR FANS M irnhv ha<i P yel ? s > cla,m that Charley year Thot. pa 1,1 spy un the ,ea m this spv waZ’nn? o nge part of kis ,hat 'he trainmV nnasU ee r e re P ort breaches |of Dhv wh S »t d > SC pl,ne ’ but to 'eh Mur pny what the players said about him. he win k af Cba " ce say ‘L in one breath that ne win accept any offer from Murnhv a* ?n P th» er n“ n ' 1 1° hls best in tha ' role and m the next breath that he has more W he 'bought was in the world sta f ,ed I'la.ving ball. There punkthJob ’" eSt ° n f the money ’ why the ♦ * « X’^o™Jf tlonal .board of arbitration of the in irAmi i T Ocla I I °!’ W’HI meet November L? ‘P Chicago. ft has an awful batch of work to wade through. „.,'\ bl L e J °hn Ganzel was hunting the other day, a bramble hit him in the eye a result, he may lose the sight of one eye. i.A' "a MeCredie, president of the Port- L a ? d ' Q reg ' club has a complicated scheme for reorgariizing baseball so that the teams m small cities will have a chance to make some money. His whole scheme tails through, however, because it Is founded on the unstable salary limit oasis. When somebody can determine a way to make salary limits stick, he has added something to the total supply of information that is worth having. • » • .^KF? en ’J 1 ® barnstorming Cubs played at Hixon, til., Heinie Zimmerman knocked the first ball pitched him into the Rock river. The ball was not recovered and Zimmerman was held to two bases under a ground rule, so the play was almost a total loss. • ♦ • Earl Gardner recently married Miss Harriet M. Denby, of Sparta. 11l • • • Clarke Griffith has announced that he will not be able to use Roy Moran on the Washington team next year. • w * Griffith has not given up hope yet that he will be able to make use of Harry Welchonce. Then Senators will take a week at West Baden or French Lick before they go to Charlottesville next spring. « » s The report of the Bull Durham company “Here, smoke some real tobacco that can7 bite your tongue!” Im —9 b zk. rft av/ r\. 11 k a S 9 0 /XT V Wik 'f J ||oEi j r —l / * j/3 aS pl 11» K&gjF-w B' S $ // I zd<H» m it "’CiililiS»W<LA\C \Jllli IJam it into a jimmy pipe or roll a I cigarette—and get real smoke joy! Here’s tobacco that's got “the goods” sign plastered all over it. You never smoked such bully tobacco, because there never was tobacco like it— and can’t be for many years, because it is made by a patented process. Y° u cut away from notions that you can’t smoke a pipe. You can —and you’ll enjoy every puff—“P. A.” won't | ( fe® bite your tongue. The sting has been cut fI ,J out. No other tobacco can be made like ■I . < =x f 'TjV-'-'" jf (i) i Fringe Albert I the national joy smoke •• ww f Xt makes a royal cigarette. It s good for what ails you £ CIGARETTE Tobacco I to switch from the dust-brands that burn up like powder —and go at “P. A." For here's freshness and sweetness—and long-burning. too! It’s easy to roll “P. A." because it's It I '. ; ‘■''*3' crimp cut and stays put! You'll never know how much better a “home-rolled'' cigarette can be until you roll up 1 TO and hook a match to “P. A.” w Buy Prince Albert anywhere, everywhere —in Sc toppy red bags; in f I sps| j 10c tidy red /tins and handsome pound and half-pound humidors. \7| W J f'R I R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY Winston-Salem, N. C J aiir. ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, 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? 'T thelr ’" ll s, Rns" in the .1 lea^u ® parks were hit eight l lus vear. ihe sign in Atlanta has b®A haen bit. It appears that it would ? i g ? l,d Policy to move back those signs ''filch are being hit often and to tiring h i le sign to a point within pus- sioie reach. * * • anti .' booze contract would have rid tn<> Atlanta team this year of several men -ail of whom would have been but brief ly and lightly missed. ♦ » ♦ ...u.“‘TA Texas southpaw, once ">‘h Birmingham, won a mess of games for Oakland this year. • ♦ ♦ Garry Herrmann says he would like to cut down the money won by players in I*'® w'orld s series to a fiat sum of, say fmO for the winners and SSOO for the losers. Then he would divide the rest of the players' share among the players of the other fourteen clubs in the major leagues. This is a poor guess. .If the players did not get a keg of money they wouldn t play as hard, the series would be less interesting in consequence and the money divided among the other big league players would give so little to each man that it would hardly interest him. • .• • • Hugh Bedient and his wife will winter on a farm at Waverly, N. Y., owned bv one of his relatives. Barney Dreyfuss has waived Cole out of the National league and has turned him over to Columbus. The umpires of the big leagues have actually perked up enough to ask the na tional commission to give them a share of the world's series money equal to that of one winning and one losing player. They propose that each umpire who works in the series be given SI,OOO and that the re mainder be divided among the other big league umpires. • * • Says a head in an Eastern paper: “Naming Hero of World s Series Difficult Task." Then why do it? There’s no compulsion. * • • Eppa Rixey. I’hillie pitcher, lias re turned to the University "of Virginia and is playing on the basket ball team. OWNER OF GARDS FIGURES ON 810 YEARLY SHING 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 office force of the Cardi nal 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 retinue 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 among 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 terms of Bresnahan's contract to charge this against her own account. That 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 msji 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 the local club, by supplanting Bresnahan 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 Cana da. and Dick Hyland, of San Francis co. fought a fifteen-round draw today. Referee Tommy Burns’ decision was popular. Bayley had a decided advantage in the open fighting, but was puzzled by Hyland's incessant in-fighting. COLUMBUS GETS 40 TIAGS COLUMBUS,' GA., Oct. 29.—More than 40 fast horses will be seen at the races at the Georgia-Alabama fair November 27 to December 7. Giants' Manager Does Not Blame Player tor Error That Cost World's Title SNODGRASS WILL PLAY WITH GIANTS NEXT YEAR By Sam Crane. N-EW YORK, Oct. 29.—Fled Snodgrass will be a member of the 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 the National league pennant, ami lie will be a Giant again next sea son." Snodgrass, when lie 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 why' all one sees and hears on the stage is not really real. McGraw Held on to Merkle. McGraw held on to Merkle after the historical incident where Fred’s “failure” to touch second lost the Giants a world’s series, and Mer kle's work since that time has proved McGraw’s judgment to be all to the good, with llie excep tion of a play in the last game of this season’s world’s series, the same contest and inning in which Snodgrass made the muff that as sures him another engagement with the 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 can be played and thereby arouses the general condemnation of the 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 his old friend through thick and thin, and indeed it is an ad mirable trait. McGraw has it. be- Hadi Caine’s Story “The Woman Gavest Me’ ’ wgW WBA Wbr)&- ' wjgß New Letters of JWjfWMm Standard Oil. I I a This masterly / wor^ —“The Wo- I / / man Thou Gavest I /A \ ' ~Me” —is by the grcat / A est living English author. It is // destined to be the most notable story K of the coming year. In it a reckless father sacrifices his young daughter to social ambitions. I His blind attempts to fill her future life with the same sadness with which he surrounded her mother causes her refusal to obey his stern commands. In Hearst's Magazine is told her life story. \ The Plot —The Marriage Bond H I It is really a remarkable work. Its absorbing plot and I sustained interest equal —or possibly exceed —that of the I author’s “The Christian” and “The Eternal City.” Read f it and enjoy a beautiful and powerful romance concerning f a woman’s rights in the marriage bond. / Standard Oil Correspondence I > These letters are published in the interests of truth and for the K enlightenment and information of the public. They clearly involve Roosevelt, Archbold, Penrose and others. You will find them all in the November Hearst’s Magazine. % On Sale at All Newsdealers November Number Just Out—ls cents Hearst’s Magazine || 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City 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 when 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 a "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 Brush 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 Giant 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- _ / 1 f You don’t have to strain your credit to buy and keep a Ford. In first cost and after cost the Ford is as economical as it is wonderful in performance and purse-satisfying in dura bility. It is “the universal car”. Runabout..., -$525 Touring Car.,. . 600 Delivery Car .... 625 Town Car. 800 These new prices, f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. An early order will mean an early delivery. Get particulars from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. fei-ent proposition had Snodgras’ proved himself a great ball player during hte career as a Giant, but he has not been more than mediocre in ability except during one period when he flashed temporarily as a contender for an automobile that was x to go to the chiam,pion bats man of the National league. There can be no disguising the fact that, in three post-season se ries the Giants have played since Snodgrass has been on the regular team 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 tt> la;,’ him off, but still he kept him In the line-up. The results-gained by McGraw as manager of Che Giants possibly should exempt him from criticism for the way lie 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. 15 S=r--fl