Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
BALL MANAGERS VIE in
DEVELOPING YOUNGSTERS

Griffith ransacked the minor leagues
and dug up Hogg, Laporte, Doyle,
!, Moriarity and Thomas. All of these
men have developed and improved
under his handling. Another of his pro-
teges is Walter Clarkson, the former
Harvard pitcher, and Sammy Strang
and Roy Patterson came into prom
inence under him when he was man.
ager of the Chicago Americans.
He took Danny Hoffman when the lat
ter was no longer wanted by the Ath-
letics, and Hoffman's regained form has
substantiated Griffiths judgment.
1t is really wonderful list of players
that have been brought out under the
Dreyfuss-C Clarke, Louisville-Pittsburg
regime. Dreyfuss discovered Fred
Clarke and he and his lieutenant have
been responsible, directly or indirectly,
for equipping major league baseball
with such gifted players as Tommy
Leach, Jesse Tannehill, Ritchey, Wag-
ner, McCreery Williams, Bransfield,
Conroy, Hartsel and Waddell.
Although Waddell played with Drey-
fuss first, his best work in the box has
been under the management of Connie
Mack of the Athletics. Mack has man
aged the eccentric "Rube' better than
anybody else and in handling men and
in getting the best out of them Mack is
a past master.
Bender Coombs, Plank. Schrecken-
gost, Powers and Harry Davis are some
of the players of note who owe their
reputation and a share of their ability
to Macks skill as a manager.
"Schoolboy" Knight was discovered
and developed by Mack, who also had
a share in making Dave Fultz star
outfielder. Mack brought Pitcher Dy-
gert from the New Orleans team and
made a valuable man of Socks" Sey-
bold after the latter had been 1ouNl-
dering about in other places. He also
is responsible for the American league
success of Danny Murphy, who had
tried a major league once before with
poor success.
The Byrnes- Ebbets combination in
the Brooklyn club has brought not a
few players of class from obscurity TO
the limelight, among them being Fielder
Jones, Jimmy Sheckard, John Anderson.
Griffin, Joe Yeager, Lumley Jordan,
and Lewis.
1t remained for Comiskey, however, to
discover that in Jones was the making
of a worlds champion manager, the
same being one of baseballs smartest
accomplishments.
"Pop" Anson's "Fnds" Are Gone
Old Cap Arson was a rare hard at
discovering and developing young blood |
in his day, but that was long ago, and
Anses finds are not numerous on the |
ball field today. Bill Dahlen was one
Of them. Pat Tebeau was another good |
one at mining new material Jack
Powell, Jack OConnor, Cy Young, Lou
Criger, George Davis and Bobby Wal
lace developed under Tebeau.
Bill Armour. who managed the Cleve-
lands and the Detroits, is a splendid
Judge of young blood. He dug up Flick,
Wiley Piatt, "Jiggs" Donohue. Bob
Wicker, Joss, Moore, Eubanks. Payne,
Rhoades, Killian Harry Bemis, Mig"
Clarke and Schmidt, and developed
Harry Bay.
Two efficient performers brought out
under the Tenney management in Bos-
ton are Bates, the hard hitting outfield-
err and Young Cy" Young, left hand
ed boxman. The Murphy-Chance firm
has produced a number of good ones, !
including Reulbach, Holman and Beebe.
In taking players from other teams
and getting high-class work out of
them Chance and Murphy have had |
marked success, notably in the cases of
Brown and overall, the
pitchers, and Moran, the catcher. Plies
ter and Pfeffer, the pitchers, are Chi
cago finds.
Billy Murray, now managing the
Nationals, brought out
that clever shortstop, Mickey Doolin.