The Washington times., 1904-03-07
SENATOR'S OUTLOOK
COULD Be WORSE
All-Star Material Not Need
ed on a Ball Club.
Ia GREAT CHANCE, SAYS MACK
Manager Of Athletics Sees Field Of
Hope in Young Bloods and
Hungry Cast-Offs.

Hearken to the wisdom of Connie
Mack. manager of the Athletics.
Connie sees a wide field of hope for
the Senators in the fact that they are.
so far. a team that exists only on pa
per, and that the best men in the bust
ness have already been gobbled up by
other cities.
Connie Has His Say.
No high-prlced stars with Iordly airs
for Connie. Raw material, carefully
/ trained, or castoffs who know they have
TO work or starve, is Comics idea of
| the sort of stuff for a pennant winner
That there IS wisdom in reflections OF
/ Connie is attested by his own success in
/ the past, and the success of Ned Hanlon
and others. He speaks on this wise:
THE plight of the Washington Amer
/ lean League Club moves me 10 a few
/ remarks on the art of finding bail play
! ers.
! THE Senator'S are about TO open The
I season virtually without a team. The
! owners are apprehensive. The good
men are all signed by other clubs. they
say, and it is too late 10 hope 70 get to-
/ gether a team that can better the per-
Torrance Of last years tailesder.
/ a good manager would recognize this
/ situation as his opportunity The fact
/ that the men with regulations are all
/ signed is 4 blessing In disguise. 1t re-
moves the temptation to go after them.
How Mack Did It.
For a winning team you don't want
the men who are in demand: you want
the fellows whom nobody else will have.
"Out Of that kind Of material landed
a pennant and brought the Athletics in
second last year.
The successful manager must be a
student OF human nature He must ear
~ learn that the one hopeless vice in a
player is cOnceit. Stars may be brilliant
In individual work, but they don't win
pennants.
Too Many Stars.
ITO prove this. need but mention the
old St. Louis Maroons, the Chicago
Players League Club or the Cleveland,
New York, or St Louis American
League clubs Of last year. They had
too many men who thought they knew
the game.
Championship have been won by the
J Ansons, Seiees, COmiskeys, and HanlOns.
: because they developed their own talent.
MY system I reduce TO this formula:
O. Never sign a man whom anybody
else wants
! Mind. / don't assert that 1 have al
ways lived up to the rule.
Captured a Penrant.
1T was with the rejected that won
out Ny four favorite recruiting grounds
for talent are among the unknown
youngsters, back numbers, cast-Offs.
preferably those who sIave been drop
ped for bad habits, and the aboriginal
Inhabitants Of this country
/ THE red man deserves recognition IN
the national game. He is the real Ameri-
can. and coming fresh from the plains
/ and tepees has not developed tastes thai
render anything less than a $lO-a-day
hotel distasteful TO him.
Good Investments All.
Il have several of these proud chill
dreu of the forest on my payroll, and
/ several who are Indians but don't ad-
nit il. They have all been good invest
ments.
Men Of bad habits make ideal raw
material provided they have been re
leased 50 often that the souDhouse
looms in the distance unless they re-
form.
Young bIoods are all right, but you
must get them before they attract at
! tentiOn A yOungsteT whose head Ia =
been turned by offers is more hopeless
| than the most complacent veteran.
THE back number is particularly val
liable II he has family and needs
steady employment.
when you get enough men Of this
I kind force them TO forget what base,
ball they know. and begin all over ac-
corclng 70 your ideas.
The Door Of Hope.
"YouH find they'll give you good
work. and won't be readily tempted
away. The cast-offs and back numbers
: are yours. for they have no other re.
r fuge; the youngsters viii stick because
they are learning all the time. and
gratitude VIII keep the Indians with
YOU. You have become the red man
! Booker u. Washington. and opened for
him the door Of hope.
Along with this grasp Of human ma
: ture I have found 81 a good idea for the
? ! manager to know something about base
ball. This has helped me considerably. y
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