Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
MANAGER CANT|LLON
MAY RESIDE HERE
Nationals New Leader Has
Always Liked the Ma
tional Capital.
Four New Base Ball Managers
the Coming Sea.
son.

Manager Cantillon does not pose as a
great letter writer and when he takes a
pen in hand it Is generally for the purpose
Of saying what he desires In as few words
as possible A letter received from him
last week, after his return from his fish,
ing trip, was characteristic Of him as 1t
was brief and to the point. 1t read some
thing like this:
"Just got back home and found the net
/. set before leaving proved more successful
than the ones we used on the river. There
was an answer from every one Of the
Washington players to whom / had mailed
contracts" "
81 am going to sell my retreat, get out Of
the business for good and may locate In
Washington for the remainder Of my days
have always liked the national capital
and If am successful there the next three
years may quit the west for good. I have
many friends out here and also business
interests but the cars move fast these days
and it matters little where one hangs up
his hat"
Manager Cantillon certainly has q re-
markable hold on the players who have
lions as a leader. The players evidently
understand that there is no dickering over
salaries and other perqusites with Cantfl-
Ion and that when they get contracts they
limit and will not be changed.
Many other managers are not 80 fortunate
in this respect and usually have to waste
a lot Of printed forms contracts before
they get all their players signed. They
first mail contract with the salary filled
in to the player. and ask him to sign and
return 1t as soon as possible. Then the
player who wants more than the filled-fn
figures call for returns the contract to his
manager and says he will not sign for the
salary offered him. Frequently the man
ager offers the same salary as the player
received the year before. though he Is
willing to pay more, or less. In order to
place him in position to bargain" with
hts man. He may want to give the fellow
q slight increase, but wants the player to
make a demand for 1t. Then when the de-
mand Is made the manager writes sweet
letter and tells the player that In order
to satisfy him and make him feel that he
ought to make extra efforts to pay good
ball the following season the increase
asked for is granted. On the other hand
the player as frequently returns the first
contract sent him with a demand for more
money when really he does not expect It.
but will be satisfied with the same salary
he received the year before. Thus both
sides do lot of blufang. with the result
that one of the most unpleasant and ted
ious Jobs of manager Is to get his men
signed up every spring before March I.
A manager to keep his teams salary list
down to reasonable proportions and yet be
able to satisfy all the men so that they VIII
give their best efforts to the club the fol-
lowing season Is necessarily q diplomat
Discussions in teams are in nine cases out
Of ten caused by some players being dis
satisfied with their contracts. II Smith
finds that Brown receives more money
than he gets he is going to feel disgruntled
In the managers opinion Brown Is worth
more than Smith, but Smith doesn't think
SO. The result Is jealousy. and Smith
doesn't care whether his team wins or
loses. But he does like to see Brown pile
nm strike and do other things
to make him look bad. The adjustment Of
salaries to make every player feel satisfied
with what he gets himself and also what
his colleagues receive Is one Of the i'm
portant tasks that falls to q managers lot,
and he must be shrewd II he succeeds in
adjusting the same every spring without
disturbing the harmony In his team.
Four new managers break into the game
this spring in the major leagues, three In
the American and one in the National
ninsa with Detroit. Chick Stahl with
Boston and Charley Murray with Phila-
delphia. OF this quartet, Cantillon and
Jennings look decidedly the best, with
The first two named have demonstrated
that they possess the qualifications Of lead
ers. a thorough knowledge Of the game and
the sand to tell others under them what
they want, but Murray will be confronted
with q hard crowd upon which to try his
minor league experience. while poor Stahl
will simply be joke among lot Of jokes
In Boston. As q sample OF what confronts
the Boston manager. there Is Ferris who
wants to be paid on for the time he was
laid of last fall after his cowardly attack
on jock Hayden. "Hebe' should be
Thankful that he Is allowed to play bali
again instead Of kicking over the price, and
he is Just the sort who will carry his
grievance into the game If he Is finally
compelled to don q uniform without get
ting what he fs after. Another big handl-
cap in the Boston outfit Is the jealousy felt
by the old for the young players. Over a
year ago Ralph Glazes work In the college
ranks was such that many clubs were bid
ding for him and as a consequence he is
said to have signed with Boston for some
think like $4.5O0 a season. Instead of prais-
inn the young fellow for pulling OF such q
good bargain, several Of the older fellows
ferociously envied that big salary and Glaze
worked under q handicap all the time. An
umpire told the writer early last summer
that he caught one of the Boston catchers
tippsnx OF Glazes signs to the opposing
batsmen, which demonstrates to what
length some players will carry out a little
spite work "Chick" Stahl was also one Of
the best of fellows In the group that helped
mighty dubious for him to get this same
crowd to take him seriously. His DISPOSE
ton is very much like that of Collins and
instead of fighting up to the last ditch II
things do not break exactly to his Hiking he
win turn his back on the whole thing
and treat 1t as joke.
Hugh Jennings will have much the same
proposition confronting him at Detroit, but
in this case there will be the fighting grit
snugiy. Jennings best recommendation to
thu Defrnft playern 4 the fact that be xEfas