Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-08

At This time OF the year IL Is dill
Mlt to get good players. Fans and
newspapers who are so ready with sug-
gestions and prone to knock, do not
seem to understand the situation. The
ether day at Washington, Clark Grif-
18th, of the New York Amer
cans. who are in h second division
II the American league race. and gen.
orally regarded as one of the shrewd-
est in the business. was dis
:ussing the difficulties he had %encount-
erred. A number OF New York fans
living in Washington. all of them
piuggers for the success of the Crit
18th outfit, had been a bit too liberal
with their suggestions to the manager
as to what he should do to improve
he percentage of his team.
rhe Hood of suggestions reused Grif-
18th to a conversational point decidedly
unusual to him.
I'm not handing anything to those
fellows behind their backs he OBJ
served when the chaps with the heaps
IF suggestions had gone away. but
hey don't know-that's all. They're
citizen F'iXits without realizing it
:ussy wussies who possess more en-
.husiasm than understanding. You
heard how they all advised me to start
something"
".Now's the time to plug up those
soles.' one of them said to me. Go
get 'em. So and Sos a MAJ we need.
Hes dissatisfied with the club he's at
wants to join the Yanks. He'll break
1ine blood vessels trying to hitch up
with your team If you'll just tip him
off that you can use i'm And there's
Such and Such. What's the matter
With coping out that finger? He can
leave rings around two or three of the
.ossers you've got now, and all you
oac1 to do tn nail him, &c 10 lot hin,
tnow that you want him-he'n come
a%-runrin'.'
And all like that. I'm pretty we'll
lsed to that lind of stuff by this time,
out there are times when 1t gets me
nto a fume. all the same. And when
Meaning pluggers that the things they
suggest aren't possible. they so off say
ng to themselves, Well. tha fellow
might do all right as a floor walker in
l 10 cent store. but as the manager of
. ball club he's a goose egg With the
elm torn Off
I'D like to know OF anything harder
han 1t is to convince a nome fan that
irst class bali players are about as rare
IS 1904 silver dollars. They fix up these
deal ball clubs on paper by the simple
process of scribbling a list of the best
men playing in every diamond position,
md then they skate gayly to the from
sAA' iitui why tlCSc Hlcl aTNnI
grabbed. They're pretty liable, too, to
ay 1t to pure close f%1stedness on the
part of a club when the crack players
IT the game are not all assembled on
,ne team. I'd hate to say just how
much money the owners of the club l
WORK for be willing to pay to
.etch together one of these ideal ball
,ubs that look so fine on paper. The
outlay they'd be eager to make would
run away up in the six figures. The
owners of any ball club know Just the
men they need and want. but they also
xnow they can't get these men for any
amount Of money.
turning 1t around, the owners of n
Dali club know just The men they don't
want. 100. There are plenty of PLAYERS
who are there with the goods when IT
comes to playing the game and who
nlSht be got. But it doesn't take much
scratching under the surface to find
WAT there's something the matter with
most of these pretty good ball PLAYERS
whose employers are willing to turn
mem loose for Il piece of money.
They're pretty liable to be disorganiz-
srs, g%rouches. crabs. chronic kickers,
leliows Who take the dark side of ev-
cry thlng, from the color of the mattress
OF their sleeping car bunk to the gold
ming III the umpire's teeth.
just one man of this kind on q ball
clup VIII queer the outfit. Hes there
every hour of the day with some kind
that tnxes tho t.an, 49, ~ puS
because it hasn.t go, r,,hha. ~ paih
doesn't like his ho,al ,oon, .s i =.
doesn't gel the south hraa,n ann IL
cause the. tittines or tina nomeo "tu pel-
are OF brass instead of nickel; he's
the team ,<ipper mis- in nn pa a., !,
days, he's lunpv around tba nao.tpih.nunl,
because the Official scorers acnn,dfna ~ ~
his dope, are giving him Ma ~ ~
lhing all the time. and in yenar ~
a bad actor who in rearing ana NJ.
ing around the barrier is lia bla to hash
the whole layout from flag Fan TO snist,
IF he's not a crouch or p kicker ha.s
pretty sure 10 have so,natb;n, 49,