Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
MANAGERS EMPLOY
DIFFERENT METHODS
Have Own Troubles Getting
Work Out of Players.
Jones Is the ExaSper-
ating Leader.

It's lovely to be a baseball manager
under any conditions.
If YOU have a loser the fans come out
and have a little fun at your expense
while the club is kicking the ball around
as if in foot ball game.
If you have q winner there is always
some one ready to offer advice just as
soon as your club drops a game that
would look good on the winning side OF
the percentage column.
It's mighty thankless job either way,
but it's a trifle better to be leading a
team that is battling for the pennant
than one that has the cellar .cinched
True, the first is under the greatest
strain, but he doesn't get SO many sour
things handed to him.
Getting Work Out of Men.
In the major leagues the different man
ayers have their own distinctive way OF
getting the work out of their men. Cleve-
land fans are familiar with the way
Larry handles his players. They see him
day after day and his system evidently
is a good one as proven by the percentage
column.
Fielder Jones leads the league III
worrying. He is high strung, stubborn
to almost an eXaSperating degree and
decidedly sarcastic. His favorite paStime
IS trotting in from the outtield and delay
ing the game, but doesn't get away with
it as often as he used to. Quite often
he is allowed to continue his journey to
the clubhouse. He has Clarke Griffith
tied in his style of changing pitchers
at the slightest pretext. 1t is not unusual
to see from twelve to fifteen in the White
Sox line.
David Harum of Base Ball.
Jimmy McAleer is the David Harum
of base ball. He has pulled off more ad-
vantageous trades within the last few
years than any of the other major
league leaders. He is outspoken and
frank. and hands out praise or criticism
without showing the slightest bit of
favoritism. Until this year Jimmy" did
most of the maneuverng from the bench.
but with winner he developed into a
rather noisy coacher. Before going into
retirement for the winter he announced
he would make several trades. Beware!
Norman Elberfeld, who succeeded Clark
Griffith as leader of the yielding Yankees,
failed with his tobasco methods The
kid" tried to put all kinds of pepper
into the Yanks with his ginger fizz tao
tics. but his players refused to stand for
the injection. It's possible the kid
won't have to do any managerial worry
ing next year
Connie Mack is the Surc-cnough bench
manager Of the American League. Con-
ME never appears in suit and gives AS
his reason that his players arc jealous of
his figure. Mack has his system down so
finely. however that he can get away
with his duties in clever style from under
the cover of the bench He never willis
his collar, no matter how close the game
or warm the day.
Jennings the Noise "Kid.''
Jennings is the real noise kid and his
yells have been copied the country over.
He is the champion salve artist of the
world, and no matter how he feels about
some play that the player has pulled off
he is always there with the slap on the
back and words of encouragement. He is
a sure-enough leader of men and much of
the credit of Detroit's showing is due him.
Fred Lake doesn't make much of show
on the lines, but the Boston boys had
very fair success under him.
Joe Cantillon is the very opposite of
Lake. He is gruff and frank and says
just what he means without mincing
words. 4 stranger would think him a
slave driver. but his players all under
stand him and swear by him.