Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-02
FO|BLES or some
BALL MANAGERS
Looking After Club as Much Fun
AS Having Trouble lob
On Phone.
THE RUNNING OF A BIG TEAM.
Fullerton SAYS l'rrffcr Mas Like a
Gcneral---IliIl itourkc Is Best In
WoTid--Lottus SERIOUS.

Managing baseball club is about ms
much sun as being trouble manager Of
n telephone company The man who
can take a ball club--no matter what
its callber-and get through even one
season without growing irritable, peev-
ish, sour and the sworn foe OF all ball
players is a wonder says Hugh S.
Fullerton.
Last fall while the New York High
landers were making their terrific ef-
fort to pull down the American league
pennant against almost hopeless odds,
Clark Griffith and were Kidding about
age Finally I remarked
Wei, 1've sim got . few black
hairs In my head
Grif pushed his hand through his
gray locks and remarked seriously
Run this team month and they'll
turn white"
Managers develop as many cranks
and pecflliaritIes AS the players them
selves, aud more when the team rs
losing. The job has turned the hair
Of every big league manager white
except Anson's and his was white to
start with. Some OF them learn In
time, especially after handling losers
FOR years to look upon life philosoph-
ically, but many OF them get worse the
older they grow. WitGess Comlskey,
who takes a defeat more TO heart now
than he did fifteen years ago.
AGAINST PLAYERS ARE MAN
Ayers
one of the first Kinks that devel-
ops In the manager Is a feeling of
luminosity towards al players. The
manager who sympathiZcs with his
men, and who takes the players view
OF the situation, is a failure from the
start
Griffith. for instance, was one OF the
Widest highbinders In the business
when he was merely player. He
fought for the rights OF players.
Many times | have heard him argue
hotly that no pitcher should work out
70 his turn. and that il the club is
carrying seven pitchers, each should
pitch game n week. For n few
weeks after Comiskey made him mai
ager Grif held firm to his ideas. Then
he began to change, and now the player
who gets any sympathy from Grit in
his grievances is hard to find.
Mike Kelly, the grandest player that
ever wore u spike, never got over
taking the players view OF things, and
he parhaps WAS the worst manager
that ever handled a club. When he
was managing 'The Killers In Pendle-
ton and misrepresenting Cincinnati In
the association he gathered around him
the greatest gang of DRINKS that ever
attempted to play ball. Besides, King
Kel was leader in the drinking, and
usually there was "a keg OF beer on tap
in tho clubhouse.
The night that the team was sold to
milwaukee,, or transferred TO that city,
Kel and his gang celebrated The ar
rival at the station was a thing long
to be remembered. Players came In
hacks, afoot. and being dragged. Just
as the train was pulling out kel threw
Ned Cranes hat out of the window,
and Ned walked solemnly out. fell OFF
The car, got his hat and started ma
1estically after the receding train.
walking with much dignity. He was
corralled by the gang, which also was
feeling fairly well, and led uptown.
where. In the name of the crowd, lar-
~ Weldon sent the following cheer
ful telegram TO Won der Abe who
owned the club:
."ream left for milwaukee, tonight, all
drunk. including Bancroft"
LOTUS WAS TOO SERIOUS.
Tom Lotus was one OF the best
managers that ever handled a club,
hut his sense OF humor was his ruina-
lion He never could get serious
enough to take baaeball rs life and
death affair and he was apt, In thu
center OF stern fight, to see something
funny
When Tom was running the Columbus
club ana Comiskey had st. Paul there
were battles between those teams-and
their managers We're worth going
miles to see. whenever Columbus and
ST Phul met Comiskey and LOTUS
chose tho ends OF the benches nearest