THK CHABLOTTE NEWS. OCTOBER 13. 15II
Connie Mack vs Mc-
Graw-Dope on Battle
The Fans Wont See
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V, York, Oct. 13.—While th«
j' . ? and Giants are fighting on
f d’-.iniond for world supremacy,
f lii?r battle will be waged behind
scn*9. 80 to speak. Uttle of this
• «'1!1 the fans see, but it will
as fiercely fought and the re-
g,i|' T\lll be equally as important as
. .i m t’n the field. Reason—the
nner of this clash will by virtue
thereof bring victory- to his men on
rhe field.
Connie Mack on the one aide,
MuRgsy” on tlM other>. meaning Cor-
nellui McCillicuddy vs. John J. Me-
rrav The latter, gallant skipper of
rne Giants, has oft been referred to
t "the little Napoleon” of baseball.
\v :i his rival prove the "lanky Wei-
■ rton?”
Herewith are given brtef sketches
rf principals and their working
r- 'hods.
JOHN J. McQRAW.
He Is Irish. He is a scrapper. He
!ia» been called “Pugnacious John
;^cCrraw.” When McGcaw starts some-
?hing, he generally finishes It—gener
a'.ly, w-hich means whenever It lies
vitbin the realm of possibility. He
Is game. He is a worker. When he
ioesn't aceomp^sh that w'hich he at
te; pts, it is because he is not equal
to the task—not because he did not
T'’ bard enough. He puts forth every
■jnce of effort he possesses, “Uvea”
t >> task he Is undertaking.
The way to achieve success,” says
>:.i»raw, "is to make good right at
f spot where you happen to be
no^.’ That epitomizes the story of
John .McGraw’s career.
MoGraw has the reputation of be
ing s hot-headed fellow. This is
probably due to his tendency to kick
at the umpire and scrap, verbally,
with players of rival teams. He could
not be stamped a "chronic kicker”
one who kicks for the sake of kick-
ng. When he has a kick to make he
n kes it, and the object of his wrath
;g not liely soon to forget the in-
c!ient. But he never kicks unless
there is a likelihood that something
is to be gained.
McGraw wants to win every game,
fighting spirit is contagious. He
his players on their toes, and
r:nger is a watchword. From his po-
'ion on the bench while the team is
, the field, he gives words of en
couragement to those who make inls-
takes, while his energetic coaching
on the lines, while there are New
Vork players at bat or on the bases,
i/oeps the men on the jump. If s
ilayer becomes careless or indiffer-
n?.. the Giants’ manager knows how
•0 call him down in the hardest kind
t way, using bitter words of criti-
m that cut like a knife.
Ves. he is a scrapper and s woTk-
but all this would be wasted
"*Mie if there were not the brains
guide it. McGraw has the brains.
\ ipcirently impetuous and respond-
iff to the Impulse of the moment, he
'n fact a different proposition. He
nks so quickly In tight places that
correspondingly rapid action ap-
•ars spontaneous. But it is not. Mc-
.. always thinks before he leaps.
1 ,r impliee the meaning that he
loks to the future. Which is quite
rue. But It does not mean that he
■ roFses bridges before he comes
• them " Quite the contrary.
>ne day in the early summer the
writer sounded McGraw’ on the sub
let of prospects. McGraw is one or
•he very few- managers who waxes in-
•liEnant when asked what his team
- do. You will find that most man-
: rs will rush into print with^ an
mlstlc yarn about their team, but
M':Graw came back with this:
That is a foolish question. No
manager has any idea what his
chances for success will be until he
•“es bis team w’ork for months st
't. Then he might be mistaken,
for something may happen to put
’•?.m out of the running.”
Seldom has McGraw said any-
’'ling that gives^a better insught Into
his nature than that ststament. He
noisy, but not boastful, as the
remark shows. Moreover, he gives
flue credit to the time worn truism
that “nothing Is certain In life and
baseball.” Realizing this and the
fact that the whole pastime is built
upon a foundation of “chances,” John
ago figured his general system of
*ttack, which is to hazard much, sue-
ro;>d as often as you can, but don’t
afraid of the possibility that yon
’’ ill not “get away with It.” It is as
*’ result of this method of McGraw’s
: t the Giants during the past aea-
f'^n swept into oblivion all fecords
r base stealing. “Nothing trieid noth
in c done”—had they stayed gang
o’.ild have been lucky to lead the
''end division.
Hut there are pther traits than
hese that are essential to the make-
p of a successful baseball manager,
"hether he be a McGraw or a quiet
'"Mrlnj? Connie ' Mack. There are
1 nlltipR that must be possessed by
^oth types. So far as can be seen,
Grav’ has a goodly share of these
He know's a ball pliyer when he
him, either when , a gem in the
”'"i«;h or when 'a polished, perfected
'eteran. L«t a man make every mls-
■ ’ e In the baseball catalogue—it
floes not fease McGraw if he thinks
man has tbe good in him. The
big thing about It Is that McGraw
knoWr's more often than he thinks.
Take the Merkle case. The new great
first baseman would be burled deep
In the "bush” if it was not for Mc-
Graw’s wisdom in seeing that his fail
ure to touch second in 1908 did not
reveal the true Merkle—that a grand
ball player lurked inside the man
who pulled the most notorius “bone-
head” play of history. It was not
forebearance on the part of McGraw
that urged him to stick to Merkle.
It was because McGraw knew he had
a star. ^
The same thing Is true In the case
of Chief Meyers, one of the steadiest
catchers in the business today and
a demon hitter. When McGraw first
got his talons on the big Indian,
Meyers was a lumbering cow-like
hulk of a man, less like a ball play
er than like an ice wagon. Rube
Marquard, the sensation of 1911, was
called a “cheese” by fans all over i
the country through more than two
years, until he began to pitch some
of the greatest baseball ever dished
up from the mound. Devore, Snod-
grrass, Becker, Fletcher, Herzog,
Doyle and Mattxewson can also attri
bute their present value on the dia
mond to the sagacity of McGraw.
Red Murray, who came from the St.
Louis Cardinals, Is about the only
member of the Giants’ squad who was
not made Into a ball player right In
McGraw’s backyard. But Murray has
vastly improved since he became a
Giant.
McGraw's talent in dealing with In
dividual players is as manifest in
developing them as in picking them
out. Only one glaring failure blots
the escutcheon of his managerial
Journeys—the fall down of “Bugs’'
Rajonond, who toppled off the water
wagon when he seemed about ready
for a great season. But it is doubtful
whether any man In the world could
have kept Raymond in the straight
and narrow path, the only one that
leads to success in things baseball.
Connie Mack made Rube Waddell
walk the chalkline. However, Wad
dell was not Raymond, and Connie
might have failed with the “Bug^ just
the same as McGraw might have suc
ceeded with the “Rube.”
Another requisite of the good man
ager that is possessed by McGraw
is popularity among his players. Mc
Graw is well liked by his charges
because hd is fair in his treatment
of them and always is ready to look
out for their best Interests. McGraw,
once a player himself, believes that
a first-class man is entitled to as
much salary as he can get. He real
izes the importance of having all his
men tatisfied in this respect, with
the result that the Giants collective
ly draw more pay than any other
team in the National League.
But McGraw must be boss at all
times. This is a point he makefe clear
the moment the players report to him
for spring practice. He will not stand
for Internal dissension and is a bitter
foe to cliques. He wants the men to
be on the best of terms with one
another and tells them so on occa
sions. As a result, the Giants are,
probaly more than any Qther big
league team, a “happy family.”
System is one of McGraw’s se
crets. He believes in making his
team work like a well-oiled machine.
He rotates his pitchers, seldom
changes his batting order and com
pels the men to adopt his style of
play, which includes inside ball of the
most scientific type. A man with lit
tle brains has to be a wonder me
chanically to get on McGraw’s teana
But such a man can get along all
right under McGraw, as the chief
does the thinking for him.
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big squad of candidates in case some
calamity hits his team, No mana
ger in the game looks as far ahead as
the Athletics’ master mind.
Baseballdom thought it wonderful
beginning to lose his grip and lost no
time in releasing him when the St.
Louis Browns presented a lucrative
opportunity.
That illustrates another of Con-
when Mack took a team of nobodies j Mack’s traits. If a player persists in
CORNELIUS McGILLICUDDY.
Why he combined his two flick
names and assumea publicly the alias
of “Connie Mack,” nobody knows, un
less It be his eternal desire to stay
out of the limelight. If that was his
intention, he failed miserably. He
who can not tell you Connie Macks
real name is not worthy of the title
fan.” For Connie is one of the most
talked of men in the public eye to
day. This is due entirely to deeds
and not words, excepting the words of
others. Connie seldom speaks for pub
lication. He is in direct autithesis to
his rival, McGraw, a totally different
typs of fighting Irishman. Connie,
Mack is quiet, sometimes almost si
lent, and he believes' in watching
tnings from he outside rather than
participating ih them. So he sits on
the bench and directs his nien more
as a general in his headquarters
than as a captain Who 4eads the
storming party. He never appears on
the field and consequently his voice
is never heard raised in protest
against an umpire's decisions.
Connie Mack is about as self-reliant
a as thei'e is in baseball. Me
does not depend on anybody else’s
dope, but keeps his own dopebook.
This not only figuratively C but liter
ally. He has collected facts on the
strong »nd weak points, of every
player in both big leagues, most of
thep rominent minor leaguers and
many leading stars of colleges and
semi-professional team*. He keeps
notes of these and adds to them from
time to time. His score book records
practically every ball P tched against
his teanr. Gonnle Mack is careful and
sure-going, and be 8«^dom ‘overlooks
a bot.” During the season he calls his
men together an hour before e^ch
game aid points out the vital factt
ronceming the
men Individually and
artly how to go about the tesk of
Seating them. With his notes to help
hli out, Connie figures about as
near to a walking encyclopadia of
baseball as anything that goes on two
‘"“He spends more time thought
in working out the personnel of his
than any other manager. If he
promletag but expe^^
,h.t the .triPPHt.* geM
sees to it that
u^^’SI lfundi^r optional contract
ting It, be Athletics at some
to Mack has youths planted
future time. Vgig 1914 and
. ;r»‘'Hr;.!. ca.?’lhem « b,
tuem. bitt every year be U. .ure of a
in 1909 and finished second to Detroit
Fans that year tossed bouquets at
Connie for getting a good team to
gether so quickly, but they didn't
know Mack was planning for 1909 in
1907. Mack is a baseball teacher as
well as manager. In this he has a
great advantage over the majority of
managers. There are few leaders who
can take a raw recruit and ciold him
into a star. Most big league man
agers expect their new men to be al
most the finished product from the
start.
Others release youngsters outripjht
with this statement: “The boy is
promising enough, but he lacks ex
perience. He must be taught the ways
of the big league. Not so with Con
nie Mack. When he recognizes undfr
veloped talent, he keeps hold of it
in some way or other. Had Eeddie
Collins, Jack Barry and Jack Mcln-
nes started, with other major league
teams, thee hances are strong that
they would have been canned inside
of a month. For a bunch of jokes
there never had been any to com
pare with the rio when they first
joined the club. If anybody but Con
nie had been the manager, they fuss
would have been quickly shullted to j
the bushes. Collins fielded like an
absent-minded camel, and Barry wquld^
turn hand-sp^ings in the effort to
get a bunt. Mclnnes looked so little,
forlorn and dejected that it* seemed
a pity to separate him from his fam
ily. Unlike the fans, Connie had an
eve that could see the 18-carat stuff
while the fans saw only the dross.
He kept the trio working patiently
and their records today bespeak vol
umes of praise for the sound judg
ment of their manager.
Connie has a system of winning
.pennants that, at first blush, «eems
somewhat grotesque, but that it
works all right is attested by the gon
falons of 1902, 1905, 1909 and 1910
won by the Athletics. His theory^ is
to beat the tailenders. He’s willing
break even with the first division
teams if he can wallop the taileii^rs
good and plenty. He does not shove
in weak i»itchers when meeting sup
posedly ^6ak teams, but sends forth
the same team to do battle that he
would against the nearest contender
for the title. During the season 3ust
I closed, the Athletics, barely won a
mapority of their games with tne
ree closest teams, ‘ but they made
show of the lowly second division-
biB. Had Detroit been as succeMfui
against the weafk teams as was Phil
adelphia. the Tigers would ^ave beat
en out the Mackmen, as their record
against the other leaders was appre
ciably better, -
An amusing anecdote 6n Connie
Mack’s superlative
details is told by a Detroit “
happened during the season just c\ob
ed. Connie Spotted a new ^hdian sign
on the center field fence, in
which was ostensibly to
restaurant. The Indian moved his
ryerback and forth^'The eTes were
controlled by electricity
tattracted mucb ““
Indian came near creating a
dal in the American League,
said. Connie Mac^ for
no chances, so he told Ban Johnson
aSoUttSe Indian with^the
The league president investigated but
“found nothing wrong.” However, he
reouested that the Indian s eyes be
stationary, which ttey f/®.
Ponnie smiled to himself in satlsiac
Connie^ «n g^^ss was
violating the rules laid down by the
tall manager he is allowed to go for
Cornelius does not believe in wasting
time over a man who does not care
for his welfare. If errors of judgment
are committed, Mack does npt abuse
the culprits, but amiably tries to
show them how they can do better
next time.
She Knew What She Would Do.
The new minister was noted as an
indefatigable talker and when Mrs.
Schuyler, who was very busy, saw him
coming, she decided not to receive him.
She instructed her daughter, aged
four, accordingly.
“Mamma says she’s not in,” said the
little one when she opened the door
in response to the call.
“You go and tell your mamma,”
said the minister, impressively, “that
I’d like to know what she’ll do if St.
Peter sends her that kind of a mes
sage when she knocks at the gate of
Heaven.”
“She says,” said the child when she
returned, “that she’ll do what you’ll
do. only she won’t make so much
CAR CUTS CHILD’S THROAT.
Slips and Trolley Wheejs Pass Over
Her Neck.
Reading, Pa., Oct. 13.—Slipping un
der a trolley car, Catherine, 5-year-old
daughter of Charles W. Wanner, a
business man, was instantly killed in
the business section of this city.
The child was in the act of running
across the street. When she fell the
wheels passed over her neck, almost
severing the head from her body, and
both legs were tangled in the car
springs.
scan
it ■ is
taking
right or not. he was on the safe side
and new mthods would have to be
evolved if the Tigers were to
over any signal-tipping scheme.
There has been but one great dis-
.ppoinAent in .Conn* Mack’,
a^a baseball **•
1905, when the Giant s beat
nrides the world’s series. And one of
^nie’s greatest triumphs was di-
Sy respon«ible for that defeat.
When Rube Waddell ran oi\t
nie and refused to show up for ^
series the Athletics’ chances ®^apv
“led as so much steam. Connie had
developed the Rube into one of the
dl'er^S^riSl eirneX wS?^
out of the erratic Rube.
dell infuriated other team handlers
Sv incorrigible behavior, he was ea^
for Mack who humored him, watched
?ver bfs cotetantly and by thi. kind
treatment actually ““I*''®*
hall player to swear by him. But tne
S^ibe KOt one 6f his recurrent cases
of "^ alder??st and was roaming in
nther parts when the series was
called. Mack* saw that the Rube was
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