The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-07
CHAGRIN OF GRIFFITH
HE KNOWS NOW THAT Oi.DRING IS
 4 BALL PLAYER.
Americas League Manager Wss Not smart Enough to Get Ahead of
 Connie Mack In Secur- ing Him.

Nowhere in the wide world could be located a human being of the maze persuasion who is more diligently in dulgent in the occupation of kicking himself good and hard than baseball manager in the American League. This baseball manager is one Clark Crt- filth by name. the head of the New York bunch in the American League. A more chagrined man than he never lived.
 This chagrin is due to Rube Oldring, the greatest natural ball player that | the South or any other section or tnis country ever saw. Just before McCoy came to Montgomery last summer m.,Ie ne would develop into one or the greatest ball players in the country and ad- vised the New York manager to secure him before it was too late. ,m Oidrihs h,is | had never played professional baii, ms career having been limited to the last independent teams around New York. Thinking that the husky young SWede lacked the experience necessary TOT a ball player in the American League Griffth refused McCoy's advice.
 And right here is where the old Fox" committed the most egregrlous blunder of his brilliant baseball i,ery career; he told the local management apout oldring. About that time, however, more money was being burned up Just as had been the case in the shannon;
  numerous other four flushes. OBrlen was even keeping one of the fastest utility men in this league, Heine Busch, on the bench in order to demonstrate thoroughly the painful and patent fact | that the aforesaid misfits were mis- nomers. That being the case Of course Oldring would have to wait.
 Finally Oldring was brought to Montgomery Just how thoroughly he | made good at the start and how he set the local fans wild Is too old a story to bear repetition. Suffice 1t to say that there has never been seen on any ball lot, major or minor league the equal of Rube Oldring, the young | Swede. who was playing his first sea- son in an organized league.
 l Even after Oldrfng had set the Mont I gomery and Southern League woods on ] Are another proposition was made to I Clark Griffith. The proposal this time was that he buy the player outright so as to forestall anybody else from drafting him.
 Again GrifHth refused. Blunder No. g.. | Up in the American League there is probably the shrewdes., mos. ea1l .eveI manager in the world. This IS Cor nelius McGillicudy known in baseball pariance as Connie Mack. manager Of the Philadelphia team, which tonight will have landed the 1905 pennant of the American League.
 Tn addition to the arduous and per picking duties of plotting baseball | team 10 lHe tOp Ol lHc idStcot pooCpoii league in the world Mir Mack was quietly throwing lariats in every direc- ton. He is one man who scofs at the maxim, sufficient unto the day Is the | evil thereof" and his eyes were in-
 tently fixed on the baseball season of
 1906.
 Out at Athletic Park one afternoon
 during the cyclonic finish that the
 Climbers were making Ed Amerine, the
 clever president of the local Asso
 citation walked up to the writer
 with a countenance as funera
 looking as the visage of Connie MacF is said to be. In his hand he held a
 slip of paper. and handing 1t out sait in d dirgelike voice. Here Is Terrell: bulletin I have just received. Reac it." Way down on the list among the drafts was. By Philadelphia iron Montgomery. R. N. Oldring."
 This was enough. Connie Mack ha' demonstrated that as a baseball man ager he is it" He had gotten q bal player for the sum of $500 who. if Jeff
 alone, could have been sold at the enc
 of next season for several thousand.
 Shreveport last spring he. spent mos
 nf his time watching Bartley. the pre
 mier twirler on Bob Gilkss staff. Th'
 result of his quiet investigations were fore leaving the Pirates town h'
 handed Gilks bunch of money. An'
 Bartley became the property of thu him on the pitching stan of the Ath ietics during the past season so h. left him with Giiks to finish the South srn League season. his object s,n in ben, 6Iy drafted or bought by any one else a the end of the season.
 Last week Clark Griffith began say
 self when his team was playing an In
 dependent team in New York and Old
 ring not only broke up the game wit
 one of those i0ng terrible n an nIts gama tna
 at Athletic Park but materially helpee'
 his team to win out from Griffth,s biI } leaguers, A few days before McCo } had pitched a game for an independen : team against Mullin of Detroit. Onl
 four hits were made off Mccoy and h shut his opponents out by a score O I2 to 0. After Oldrings performance in the independent game Griffith man
 aged to get him to play with the Yan
 kees, and he has played third base ,o
 Grinith's team since then. Of eours f next spring unless Connie Mack let l Grifith have him. And that IS ex t tremely improbable. If Mack turn nm down, another impMTonapol1,S pMonaeonsrv
 The following account of Oldrlng
 first game was sent by Mccoy and VII
 prove interesting reading to local local fl fans E
 overgrown urchin up at Olympic Fiel I yesterday, If we can lick dem we pla | Hoboken for de championship of th N
 | You make me tired" said Ne, ,l Works star American League rootel | who occupied bench in the field. whil \ the Manhattans were beating the Yan . kees. where does Obuken come in?' = Read de poipers:" commented tn = young fan, didn't dey trim de Jints
 to couple weeks ago. Now if W
 wins today and beats de Atletics. tn
 big series Is between de Manhattan nc and Hobokens. Are you hep?' ly Up on the little field in Harlem of mixed team of the Yankees uneXpect n- edly encountered defeat yesterday al K ternoon when the Manhattans beat thel so to ,. Incidentally the game earne aan one young player a chance to perforl 1a in fast company. "Rube" Oldring. O. New York boy who has just finished on very good season in the Souther ge League, was on third for the Manhat n- tans
 With the score to in favor of th eT Yankees, "Rube" drove the ball fu
 over the centre field fence for the Ions = est home run of the season on thos = grounds. He will play third base tC
 the Yankees today against Detroi
 Two men were on base when Oldrin , connected and the score was tied Ba io pitching by Goode and some hitting pl in | the Manhattans ahead. FoXen, WI in h, was unsteady in the first few inning ts settled down and pitched CleV' " game. He famed some of Griffith he heaviest batters, and was not in dar nv ger after the fifth.
 5Ss Besides batting well, Oldring neg,
 tiated three difficult stops at third bas