Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
CF1RISTY MATHEWSON DEPLORES
THE CRY OF TAKE HIM OUT"
WHEN HURLED AT PITCHER

grass and chewed it. and told me to go
ahead then and blow the game if l was
gong TO be SO plug-ugly about it, The
crowd continued TO shrek for my can
ming. but 1 whitfield the next three in a
tidy little row. and 1 won the game 5 TO
!, without a bit of bother
All the same. it's a little bit contrary
70 the American -thsgry of first rate
sportsmanship for the gang to begin to
pick on pitcher and demand that he be
yanked the instant he has a little bit Of a a
let-down. 1t may be that the fans will
see this some day and stop that stuff.
The manager of a ball club knows pretty
Well when to pull a pitcher out of the
box. That's what he's there for He
knows the kinks of each one Of his
beavers. and he can tell at glance
whether the man suffering from a mo-
mentary let down is capable of going
out thing is. Of course. attributable to
the eagerness of the fans not to see a
game blown through any possible incom
petence of the pitcher but, still, that's
a matter that they could easily leave to
the club manager"
In speaking Of a recent change of man.
agership of one Of the American League
pires had some curious observations to
make the other day.
Its always bad sort of a thing" he
said. Ito have a player attached to the
club of equal ability as an inside student
of the game with the regular playing
manaser. I've watched this work on,
in many instances. and it always turns
out badly. 1t results in the formation OF
cliuues within such a club, and no club
afflicted with clique,sm is capable of any
high clisnting, because the bunch DOM
pull together.
rlA Mo L.
the whole thing in the eyes of the club
or the thing IS bound to go wrong. Wher
the allegiance of the players of q club i.
divided between the actual playing man
ager and some other player On the team
whom some of them tn nix ought to be
the manager, why. you've got n mussy
situation that can't by any possibility
work for the teams good.
There are. as a matter of fact, club:
in both of the big leagues. managed b,
player managers. in which some mere
player. clothed with no authority what
ever. but filled up to the necktie will
shrewd base ball sense. is the real brain!
of the outfit. The players are quick t.
see which man of the let is the brain.
OF the crowd. and if some other man be
sides the manager is the brainy boy why
the, little whispered word is bound to sif
around sooner or later among them tina
So-and-So ought to be the manager O
the outfit instead of the fellow who.
holding down the job.
when this whisper gets started 1t II
bound to encounter men on the club who
believe that the man on the managing
| job Is cut out for the work and entitled
| TO hold the job permanently. and thus
the clash begins. The par. isans of thu
manager on the job and the believers IL
the greater managing ability of tn,
| player who hasn't any title whatever be
gin to frt some huffy with each other a.
| to their diverg ng points of view. ant
| this hufiiness develops in some instances
| TO such an extent that the men. perhaps
| involuntarily but no less certainly. begin
| to pull in different directions in the actu 1
! playing of the game. The chaps who ar,
| for the existing reg me hand all of thu
goodies to each other. and sort of worl
| to backcap the chaps who believe that TIN
unusually competent player ought to b.
| the manager, and there you have a dis
organized and dOwn-going ball club. .
| There isn't as a matter of fact. room
on any ball club for two men of quite
unusual base ball brains. when these
| brains are of the executive and directing
( order I've seen cases where the un
usually competent player tried to flae
| the secret movement IN the club tt
have him made manager instead of thu
! fellow already on the job. but once q
! bunch of base ball men sc, the idea into
| their heads that one of their team-mate.
who's not manager ought to be man
ager. then the man they're roofing FOL