The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-09
/ F | It's Fl E r E
IT'S RIGHT
CHICAGO MAY
BUY HAL CHASE

1t is reported in the east that George
Davis. the shortstop of the Chicago
Americans. will go to New York To
take hld Elebrfield's place as plaving
manager of the New York Americans
ElDerneld has had charge of the team
since Clarke Griffith's retirement. The
zeal which Is pending Will involve the
srduIng OF Davis and Jiggs Donohue
Tor Hal Clarke, the Highlanders' great
hrst baseman. Grifiiths was traded 10
New YORK by Chicago three years ago
in exchange for Davis
"A washington writer. speaking of
the retirement of Manager Clark Crit
nth of the Highlanders, says:
CLARK Griffith's fate is a beautiful
illustration of the uncertainties of
baseball, and the rule that no man.
ager can be indefinitely a winner. In
conjunction with the later careers of
Ned Hanlon, Jimmy Collins and nu-
merous other once great managers. il
goes TAR TO prove that without the eIe-
ment OF luck no mar can deliver the
goods as baseball manager Brains
experience and determination have
their value, but the fact that men who
demonstrated all these qualities rose
10 the top and then sank to the very
bottom despite their most desperate
efforts and prodigal OUTLAWS of money
must give pause to those whose only
suggestion III slump is to change
managers.
"Griffith's unusual ability as a ball
player himself and his thorough,
knowledge not only of the game as a
whole, but of the special department
OF how 1t make other men play. will
not be questioned The same was true
of Hanlon and Collins to an exception
al degree. yet all three, after periods
of success, when their word was law.
afterward gravitated to the cellar and
were so little esteemed that they were
objects of derisiOn where they once
reigned supreme.
Every possible device has been tried
by Griffith this year to give New York
a championship team, yet. after start
ing with a rush that produced an in
evitable torrent of gush from the New
York writers, his men struck a tobog-
gan more slippery and more acutely
pitched than that on which Washing
ton has been caa.stin.g since IL left
home on the night of May rs. Not a
vast deal was expected of Washington
on an anlysis of its strength, man by
man. while Griffith on form had an ag-
gregation which figured as a most Sc
rious contender for the flag.
What's the answer? You will havs
TO seek it in the stars. There is nobody
in this wilderness of sorrow, sadness
and woe and female reformers who can
give IL. me crystal pail, the incense
smoke, the tea leaves had their tri-
umphs as prophetic mediums even to
a picnic but no seer or seeress has
a picnic but no seer or seeeress has
even been able to tell what ball team
would do.
Griffith is unusually sensitive under
reverseS. and il may be claimed that
this hurt his chances of successfully
contending against the slings and ar
Of fortune The
might also have been said of Jimmy
Collins. bat there have been many
Cold-bloOded managers of the Hanlon
type who have taken the oblivion route
just as rapidly when their star set
and we might as well throw out of the
discussion Griffith'S temperament. The
makeup of the man is a large factor.
but there are too many angles to thi,
subject to attribute his failure to that
in view of his former record. The con-
clusion of the whole matter, then, Is
luck