Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-08

a very gO0G showing Tor the latter.
Il
In no city this season has the matter OF a
playing manager as compared with a nom
playing manager been followed more close
ly than in Boston. Manager Collins has
been clothed with the most complete pow
ers this year-more than fall to the lot OF
most playing managers 1t has been up to
him to sign and it has been up to him to
release. He Is the whole thing in the
Boston club. Every recommendation Of his
has been carried out, and he has had but
to suggest and his suggestion is obeyed
to the letter. Never have his abilities been
put TO the test that they have this sea-
son. 1t is true that the team was much
handicapped in the absence OF Catcher
Criger, but other clubs have suffered re-
verses in this way and been equal to them.
1t followed. as a matter of course, that
the pitchers lost their effectiveness when
facing catchers of mediocre ability, and
this caused the club to fall back most de-
cidedly until ii has been in last place
longer than in any one season. In addition
to the weakness behind the bat the club
was very weak In the outfeid and slower
than any club in either league on the bases
AT last something has been done 10 remedy
the slowness OF the outfield, at last some
thing has been done to secure infelder
to replace Manager Collins at third base,
but whether the catching department Is
anywhere near what IL ought 10 be still
remains to be seen.
When things so wrong with a club it is
no easy matter TO continue at the helm
when some one. the manager himself. ought
to head the chase after the material neces-
sary to help matters. Some managers do
not have to do such things. In Chicago
both Manager Chance and Jones have
ample assistance in such cases. Managers
Mack and Duffy find 1t easy to secure
players when they want them, and SO on.
but not Boston.
hnC tn 10 Ell ha
Boston American team to have non-play-
ing manager and IL is good wager that
one viii, be had next season. The interior
working of the team Is not what it should
be- There is no: that hustle and hustle
there is in other teams. The team plays
slow, heavy game, there is not that action.
that go. one expects of hrst-c,ass ball
team The men go 70 and from their places
in the field with altogether too much leisure
and with an air as il they played not be-
cause they wanted 20, but just to accommo-
daIe. Here g 40 per cent OF the season
over and the club is not only out of the
race so far as drst place is concerned, but
with no easy sailing to emerge from the
last position.
In the Boston National League team
Manager Fred Tenney has every iota of
tho business OF the club on his hands Ten
ney is the whole thing on the road: busi-
ness manager. treasurer-secretary--a regu-
lar Pooh Bah. as 1t were. No small task
that OF his. Some clubs carry two men
in addition TO the manager to do what
Tenney does, and despite the load on his
shoulders his team has made very good
showing this year. His team has been get
ting along with fifteen men OF late yet
this team has been giving a very close
race to every club IN the second division
and has succeeded in winning four games
from the New York Nationals this year
showing better than that of two sea-
sons past. fer In each OF those cam
paigns Boston landed but three games and
there are yet games to play. Il Is feather
in Tenney's cap that he has done such
good work with the material at his COM
mand
Some managers have given to them, as
In the case of Collins. everything possible
and fall to realize results Such leading
light as Ned Hanion has failed TO realize
on the Cincinnati team any more than he
did with the Brooklyn team. and when 1T
comes to compare results there Is simply
nothing TO 1t. as the, Cincinnati club has
q player as well as manager Hanion
certainly gets as much as 5000 In C!nctn-
natl and does not play. and Tenney does
not get anywhere near that sum- and the
club 10 In what Q manager would receive
Tenaey chafes over the fHct that he II
compelled to manage the club with his
hands tied behind his back: IN other words
he would like to show what he could 40