The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-17
CONNIE MACK IS
GETTING RESULTS
At LITTLE COST

'Tis the year of Cornelius MeGilli-
cuddy.
Once more the wizard of the national
pastime has come into his own and to-
day he is the most feared rival the
champions have to contend against,
says the Detroit News.
Cornelius McGillicuddy-called Con-
ME Mack, to save space and energy-is
the chessmaker of baseball. Other
students of baseball that a man
ager is but a weak factor to a team;
that to win he must have the players.
Connie stands alone as the man who
wins without paying the price for the
material.
This year shows the elimination of
an effort on the part of this genius
that stands unique in the world of
baseball.
In 1907 he had a team that was frayed
and somewhat aged, but, backed by some
superb pitching and his own brain-work
IN bringing up plays sroh he LED tba the East leag spd
after a terrific night for seventeen innings
put the Athletics ont of ii.
1t was right here that Connie MACK
showed himself as the master mind of the
game. He knew his team had no especial
class; he realized he had 10 build all over
again. He had no material on hand, but
he. started right out to get what he needed.
And he didn't spend any too much
money doing it. Connie gets fellows be-
fore they know that they can play, ball.
He selects men who have no training IN
the game. He picks them up by intuition
and then teaches them the business. No
one ever heard of Connie spending big
money for promising colts.
T-.-- IH.,,~I -~a-de N fnrfInn nVnrN
year trying to get a winner for New York;
John |. Taylor has spent thousands and
thousands in Boston. Cleveland has gone
to the limit In spending money ay, sryI nSe 70
of the Detroit Club have given Jennings
a free hand In getting the men be wants
to develop his scoring machine.
While others have failed year in and
year out, Connie in one season put forth
a team that now threatens the great Amer
lean League slusgers.
figured out he wasn't going to be in the
running last year, and he knows that his
town likes a winner so well that a loser
can't make much money; So he Just for-
got there was such a thing as n league
standing and thought only of the year to
come. Last year while others were fight
ing for place, Connie was going along
winning where he could. but devoting all
his energies to landing material for this
season.
When the Tigers, after seventeen in
rinBS OF Dattlng, pounded INTO 1ohnie .
head that he didn't have a team that
would stand the gaff he had a good many
G. A. r. veterans on his payroll.
There was little Topsy Hartsel the
the e-ver-youthful Topsy. who talks and
scolds all the time and yet can play the
field about as well as any man in the
game today, "Rube'' Oldring was in
centre, and Socks Seybold. the human
elephant, was In right. The veteran Harry
Davis was at first, Murphy. just as old,
was at second. Nichols was at short, and
the once great Jimmy" Collins was play
ing the final act of his brilliant major
league career at third. Mike Powers,
whose hair was then tinged with gray,
was the mainstay> behind the bat. while
1t was then, too, that the great "Rube"
Waddeli was turning to the down grade.
And now-Collins. the great, is gone.
He has drlfted to where they all event.
ually go. Seybold no longer ~startles the
crowds by the wonderful movements of
his gigantic body in the outfield: Murphy
does not appear in the lineup; Schreck
has faded from the major league light. and
the great "Rube" is fading down in st.
Louis. And Powers. the laxative Mike. =
was stricken at his work and died afittle
while later.
Only two of the old guard remain in
great pitchers. Bender and Plank. they
are Hartsel and Davis. Davis is no longer
the sensational fielder and magnificent
slugger of other days. He Is no longer
sending the ball to Cherry street when
he visits Detroit. But he's good. for there
never lived a wiser baseball head in the
ranks.