Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-22
Man Who Handles Ball Tossers Has His Ups and DoWns-Leaders in Vari- ous Associations.
ANGRY STOCKHOLDER
Head of Winning Team Is the Best Fellow in the World Until His Team Begins to Lose, Then He's a Dub.

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 Many of the men who will man. az DaIl teams not only ill the Ma tiona! and the American leagues, but also in the leading minor or ganizati0ns, such as the Eastern league, American association, South ern league, Western league and the Pacific Coast league, are we'll known to followers of the national game, says the Kansas City Journal. Naturally the two major leagues monopoliZe the managerial talent, but three managers ill the big cir cults this year have only just graduated from the minor leagues Hugh Jennings of Detroit; Joe Cantillion of Washington, and Will liam Murray of the Philadelphia Nationals The success of any ball team is generally up to the man. ager, who is usually held re sponsible for the work and be- havior of the players, but in many cases the manager, hampered by the club owners, is not actually to blame.
 It is a case of ups and downs with nearly all these team leaders, whether they direct their men from the bench or are players them selves. The manager of cham- pion team is always hailed as a wonder and is lauded to the skies. The newspapers print his picture, the fans present him with a gold watch or diamond pin, the own CTS of the club and the ScrlbeS banquet him, and everybody else wants to shake him by the hand. Whatever he may say about base ball, is regarded as law, and mo- body mas the nerve to dispute him. But the very next year this same manager may find himself at the head of a bunch of tail-enders. There has been dissension among the players, accidents have put the best men in the hospital and thousand other things have helped to send the team to the bottom. Then it is that thonghtless per sons blame the manager. Why didn't he engage a whole lot of good substitutes early in the year? What did he let So-and-So get away for? Didn't he arrange the batting order With rank judgment? Who told him that he knew a thing about team play? The hammers are kept busy and the anvils are beaten so steadily that their surfaces are as smooth as glass.
 The indignant stockholders, who generally don't know a baseball from Bartlett pear, hold meet ing and the manager is summarily dismissed to satisfy public clamor Other managers come and go, the team is disorganized, and it is sometimes many years before some man, luckier than others, comes along and builds up the team once more. Of course, he is hero and all that sort of thing, but his time finally comes like all the others.
 It has often been said that play CTS generally make the manager. But this is not wholly true in the cases of such veteran handlers of big ball teams of days gone by as Captain Anson, Buck Ewing, John Ward, Ned Hanlon, Frank Selee and others who developed an army of young players and also won the highest honors in baseball playing. The same may be said of some of the presnt managers in the two big leagues. Fielder Jones, who led the Chicago White Sox to victory. is self-made manager who. with Charley Comiskey's advice con- stantly ringing in his ear. pro- ceeded to build up wonderful. ball team with only ordinary material at hand.
 American League Managers.
 Jones first became prominent as a player when the E.oCklyn cub dug him up and put tim in the outtield. Always a fast runner, a hard, clean hitter and superb fielder, Jones soon attracted the at tention of baseball men all over the country. When the American league team began to expand, there