Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16
BASE BALL COMMENT

BOSTON, Mass. June 14.-W nat the real
kind of a manager will accomplish in base
ball has been shown already this season In
the instances Of the Detroit club of the
American, and the Philadelphia club of the
National League. Jennings Is a winner and
a hustler and man who will keep his club
keyed up to its work all the time or
know the reason why A well-posted man
said the other day: Il regard Detroit as the
best club in the American League today.
There is no club that will size up super
Tor to 1t In all-around work. Just size up
the pitchers, the catchers. inf1eld and out
field, the base running and batting ability,
club is In the thick of the fight and will
,, come very close to land In the first posi-
ton
Jennings makes a whole lot Of noise. and
INDUCES In lot of nonsense on the base
lines, but SO long as 1t keeps his team a
moving and alive there Is no particular
harm done. Now Murray is entirely differ
ent He is quiet. INDUCES in no noisy. lively
coaching but obtains just as good results.
He Is In the game all the time and obtains
results.
One of the best managers that ever lived.
Mr.. John c. Chapman. now as successful in
business as he was in base ball. said the
other day: Il hope that Jennings will keep
up the pace he has set. There Is no reason
why he will not. He has 1t in him. The lit
tie freckle-faced Irish boy has grown to be
a big brainy man, man of culture and in
tell:gence. If he We're not in base ball he
would shine at the bar. Detroit made no
mistake in securing his services and has
found this out already. He is bound to land
a winner. He has the makeup of winners.
What man he would have madde for Bos-
ton! Had Hughey Jennings been in charge
Of Boston he would never have allowed Jim
Collins to get away and. mark me. would
have got out of Collins all the ball there
was in him. No wonder Connie Mack
hustled to Boston when he had an opportu-
nifty to land jim 1 have the utmost faith in
| Collins. 1 still think he is N a class by
himself as third baseman. and that he can
make plays others would not dream of at
, tempting. l say this without the least re-
gard to politics. 1 believe you will find that
he will be of inestimable value to the Ath-
letic club
popular with his men the hammers will soon
get to work. and the players will go about
their work N a listless manner, and be ut
terly Indifferent whether they win or lose.
No matter how hard and earnest the man
ager works to please them, and no matter
how hard he strives, unless matters are en-
tirely harmonious 1t will be impossible to
land a winner. Such players should be
dropped from organized ball That is why
! manager Ike Jennings is bound to succeed
that is why Murray has always been a win
ner-they will not tolerate knockers or in
different ball players.
Il pick Frank Chance to land the Ma
tional League pennant He is a good man
ager. his men like him, he has them under
control. he gets the best work out of them
they have to offer and the team is one of
the best ever gathered together"
There are other first-class. energetic man.
ayers who can be had to handle frst-class
major league clubs. All that there is to be
done is to go after them 1t takes some
thing more than experience and knowledge
of the game, however, to make a first class
manager. Some men become first-cass
managers for that matter. without know
ing very much about base ball. Some have
done little more than look wise and tactful
Boston has fallen in line at last and Sc
cured a bench manager. Manager Nc
CURE can be depended upon to work in the
direction Of making moves that will
strengthen the team. team bereft of
the services of a Stahl. Collins and a
Dineen must needs be in bad way and
it will take time to secure successors of
these players.
The way that Griffith and his bunch have
been trounced has been a surprise to every
body. 1t was only a short time ago that
"Grff." was laudng his staff of pitchers to
the skies, and last week they were lam
basted harder than any pitchers in the
country. 'Griff." will be in sack cloth and
ashes from this out, for he has little
chance, indeed, to be In the race this year.
and is not so many games ahead of the
lucklesS Bostons. 1t Will be but a matter