Evening journal., 1907-03-27
NO ClNCH TO
MANAGE CLUB
N IN Vino Handle Ball Teams
Earn Their Salaries Many
Times Over

Few Of the fans who sit in the grand
stand and bleachars and enjoy ball
game during hot summer afternoon
realize how the manager who occupieg a
seat on the bench. feels and acts It's
great to be the manager Of a winning
team, but It's hard to imagine anything
worse than the leader Of tail-end as-
gregation.
II you happen to be the manager Of a
team that wins the Yennant the fans VIII
insist that you're one Of the wisest guys
in the business, that you understand how
TO hand,e a bunch Of players, that it was
your inside work that landed the flag and
that in general you're the whole explosion.
On tho ether hand, If you happen TO be
plotting the cellar champions, you will be-
told time and time again that you're lob
ster and should be digging ditches that
your place Is the tall bushes and green
grass and thas you couldn't win a PEN
nant II your team was made W of La
toes and wagners.
The men who sit on the bench and guide
the ecstinies of tho big league teams cam
an the money they are pulling down. The
manager has to direct tho play, take the
abuse resulting from all the mistakes
made by the players. explain every de-
feat and do all the worrying for the entire
bunch Every manager has his peculiar
it,es. his supersutlons and his hobbies. IS
really interesting 10 watch how the vai-
ious leaders of tho American and Ma
tional league teams act during the pro-
gress of a game. It is generally possible 10
tell just how the game is going by watch
ing their expressions and actions.
Take Fielder Jones' Of the Chicago
White Sox. for instance, the winner Of the
American league pennant and world s
championship During game Jones is all
the time serious He sees nothing funny.
While in the outfield he naces around in
centre like Gagged Lion. The umpires insist
that Jones has path worn on every
grounds from center to the plate due to
his coming In to dispute an close decisions.
lAny time a pitcher looks as II he was
about to go up Jones is on the SPOT offer
ing his advice. He remains on the bench
very littlo during the game.
Connie Mack. Of the Athletics. the winner
Of the American league Dennant Of 1905.
Mack directs the play from the BENCH and
Is always attircd i'm street clothes. He
rarely says anything and then only in the
l ordinary tones. He is the FOX Of the
business Mack has an unusually long
I face. and when the game Is going his way
I be always wears one Of his everlasting
Smiles When thlnss break against HIM
his face seems twice as long as usual, and
J that's going some for Mack He is 5
good loser. however, and takes defeat as
gracefully as he does victory.
Clarke Griffith wears out more shoes
Curing the season than all the other mag
mates put together for he covers ali lin.s
tf ground. Griffith seldom IS on the bench
! lie IS generally doing stunts on the coach.
Ing lines ana never lets an opportunity st
by to question decslon if he thinks there
Is something 70 be gained. Griffith is Of ar
unusually nervous temperament and every
year he Sc scheduled Tor a nervous col
isrsa Last year report had Il that CRIT
9Th .subsisud-on o.!ve Gil and raw eggs
durins the last month OF rhe race