Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29
PH|L[|E NATIONALS
MANAGERS SCHOOL
Eleven Base Ball Leaders Are
Graduates of That Team.
Lajoie, Dunn, WoIverton
and Duffy Are Stars.

So much success has been met with by
certain of Ned Hanlon's players in man
aging base ball teams that the fact has
been a veritable school for the develop
ment of team handlers.
At least eleven men who at some time
during their careers wore the uniform OF
the Philadelphia National League club
plotted teams last season. Four Of them
too, were successful in winning cham
ponships. They were Jack Dunn. whose
Baltimore Orioles won the Eastern League
pennant: Bill Bernhard. who. in his first
season at the helm Of a team, landed
the Southern League flag: Harry Wolver-
too, whose Williamsport team again beat
all the others in the Tri-State League.
and Dick Cooley, who plotted the Topeka
(Kan.) club to the top notch in the West
ern Association race.
Other ex-Quakers who managed teams
during the past season were Monte Cross,
who made his debut as a team pilot with
BILLY Hamilton. who was in charge of
team in New England; Hughey Duffy,
who again led the Providence club Of the
Eastern League; George T. Stallings. who
so we'll: Lave Cross. who managed
Shamokin Of the Atlantic League: Jimmy
Callahan who owned and managed an
independent team at Chicago. and Ma
poleon Lajoie, the great leader Of the
Clevelands.
Promotions in Store.
Stallings is not the only one on the
list who will get a promotion next year
Jack Dunn is talked of as the manager
Of the Cincinnati and st. Louis Nationals
Wolverton, who was drafted by four
major league clubs and awarded to the
New York Americans, may manage New
ark Of the Eastern League. In addition.
Cooleys Topeka club has been shifted
into a league with a higher rating than
the Western Association.
Strangely enough, these managers, if
they were put in the positions in which
they played regularly. or occasionally
subbed on the Phillies, would make a
complete team. What is more. If these
men could play like they could in their
prime they would make some Of the top
notchers in the big leagues hustle.
Nearly all Of them played regularly last
season, thus proving that they yet re-
tain much of their ball-tossing ability.
Here is the way the team could be
made up:
Stallings. catcher; Bernhard. pitcher:
Cooley nrst base; Lajoie. second base:
Monte Cross. shortstop; WolvertOn, third
base: Duffy, left field; Hamilton. center
field: Callahan. right field; Lave Cross
4 H.
Barring Callahan, every man played in
the place in which l have stationed him
while with the Philies, and some of them
were for a long time stars in these po-
stions.
All Are Great Players.
Several years before Stallings was
brought here, in 1897. as manager he
was with the Quakers as a young catcher
of promise only to be released. as with
old John Clements around there wasn't
much chance for any kid backstops
Callahan also broke into the National
League with the Phillies. He was let
pitcher, and afterward developed into a
star outfielder. Cooley was shifted from
the outfield to first base for time. Monte
Cross. LaJoie and Wolverton played on
the team together. For many seasons
Hamilton was one of the greatest center
fielders in the country. while batsma n
and base-runner he had no superior. Duffy
occasionally played in left field while man
ager here
Dunn was such a good batsman that,
although he was regular member of
the twirling staff. he was occasionally
called upon to play an infleld position.
lies so long that l think his record was
that he played every position on the
team.
Billy Mailman made a somewhat simila r
record here as an all-round player, and
he also became a manager after he left
the team.
1t is doubtful if any major league club
has a record Of turning out so many man
ayers as the Phillies.
What is surprising is that the players,
after they climbed the ladder and became
managers. should win four remnants IN
one season, while the club from which
| they graduated could not win one in a
quarter OF a century.