The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-03
TOO WET TO PLAY
CLIMBERS AND ATHLETICS HAD TO
 STAY INDOORS.
Connie Mack Chats About the Value of Teamwork and Inside Play
 News of Base StS s bmil

As the ball players are not amphib- ious---though according to Managers Durrett of the Climbers and Mack of the Athletics. the members of their teams win have to stick to the water wagon this summer--there was no work done at Athletic Park yesterday. If the two managers had been at tho head of aauarians instead of baseball squads there might have been a lot of sense in going out to the grounds which yesterday morning bore strik- ing resemblance to small lake. As 1t was most of the gang-Climbers and Athletics--hiked out for local skat- ing rink, Durrett and Mack being 100 close in for any of them to get on the other kind of skate even if they had wanted to, and spent the morning making forcible impressions on the hard wood floor.
 Around at the sGlenmore Hotel Con- nie Mack, Sam" Erwln--betterk known as manager of the Colts--and some newspaper men indulged in a flaming bee and rehashed baseball past and present.
 .It's team work and inside play that's half the battle,H said Connie Mack. why, last summer there were some teams in the American League against which it looked like my team shouldn't have had a chance. That gang of hard hitters in Cleveland especially, to all thing easy, but by working every point of the inside play and sticking to the team work in which they had beer thoroughly drilled my men generails nosed ont a team that looked shade better than them" Nc man in the world appreciate. the true value of team work more thai Connie Mack" chimed in one of th' Philadelphia newspaper men, and tha
 has been the secret Of his success iron the start. Last years wonderful wori of the Athletics was due almost q: much to the brains and hcadwork ol yr.-.z taf Inc else. This headwork has always beer a feature of the Athletics.
 ITO illustrate, he continued, vii | show you bow headwork won 2 close | game and hard fought battle It was | back in 1902. The, Athletics were play, l ing the Chicago White Sox and DoC White was pitching for Conpskey' men. White was one of the pitchers | whom the Athletics were almost un-
 able to hit, and they were dependins on teamwork and Inside play to wir | that day. | '"That year Dave Futz and Harry Da wis were making the other men in thu | when it came to team work, and ts | Harry Davis more than anyone els' belongs the credit of winning the pen nant that year. 4 l Well. the game was pretty clos | the day I speak of. It was tied up | and o, and one run would in all prob ability have won it. Fultz had beer | worked around to third base with liar | " Davis on first. Davis started dowl to second to draw the throw and le Fultz dash to the plate. Something | went wrong and before Fult5 could ge l under steam to run from third to tn
 plate, the shortstop of the White Sox l who had gotten the throw to catcl Davis. was shooting it to third ant Fultz barely had time to scramble bacl l 10 that bag, Davis being on second al right. Then came a play that show the value of brains in baseball. Tn Chicago players were astounded an
 went right up in the air. A Ionl | suuabble was had with the umpire, bu
 that official. after going through tn rule book, and finding nothing agains | a b"serunner returning from secon
 to first. of course had to let Davis sta | on first.
 'The White Sox were badly rattle
 by the time play began again and whe l Davis started down to second tn
 White Sox catcher made the long throv
 and Fultz dashed over the plate wit
 the run that, as it turned out, wo the game. =
 Headwork won a lot of games fo the Climbers last year. after O'Bria l had ceased being an anchor to the To
 calls. and many is the game that I hay
 seen Dam Brouthers and Rube Oldrin win with brainy baserunning On tw
 occasions the squeeze won a couple c
 1 to 0 games last summer. so whil
 batting is one of the big factors in
 game of ball, last year proved for tn
 Athletics and Climbers-two of tn
 fastest teams In the American an
 Southern LeaRues-that good battins
 though an extremely valuable adjunc
 is by no means the entire thing.