Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-15
VERY SMOOTH PAIR
OF CLUB MANAGERS
Cullen Hands Out Words of
Praise for Mack and
Jennings.
Bv Clarence L. Cullen.

Written Exclusively FOR The Star
couple of ball clubs managed respec
lively by two renowned Oilmen are now
battling for the leadership of the Ameri-
can League.
Reference, of course. is had 10 the
Athletics, presided over by Gilman Cor
nelius McGillicuddy. whose cumbersome
monaker has been chopped. by common
consent dncluding his OWN. to Connie
Mack; and to the Tigers. whose dest!nies
are in the hands of Gilman Hugh Jen-
nings. of "Ea-yahr and grass-plucking
fame
These two wear the laurel the
champeen Salve Spreaders in the base
ball business.
1t has to be given them. They WROTE
that salve number, words and music.
They're there with the paste.
They're the lubrIcating leaders.
They've got the grease gag bottled up.
In other words. they're diplomats at
the difficult art of handling ball players.
Their methods are entirely different in
action: but they're just the same in the
matter of dishing out the benevolent
bunk to their hired men.
The fact that they have the correct
dope in the matter OF handing ball
players is made evident by the positions
Their, ball clubs are holding in the race.
These two ball club managers know as
well as they know they're alive that bali
PLAYERS can't be bullied or hectored into
PLAYING good ball. That's the funda-
Beginning with this piece of knowledge.
they take up the next elemental fact,
which is that. while ball players can't be
bullied into delivering Their best article
- - nod nd aat-
ened into playing the best ball that
they've got in them.
Simple<Ittle facts. eh?
Sure Simple enough. But how
many ball club managers avail them
selves of this simple little information and
put the system into practice, thereby get
ting the topnotch kind of work out of
their players?
oh. not many. not many! Mighty few. in
fact The ma iority of the ball club man.
with that old threatening system.
Their idea of the thing Is 10 MAKE
their fellers play ball
And that's just the little thing that
can't he done. The human equation
nudges in when that MAKE thing is in
PRODUCED You can't MAKE. the best
plumber i'm the world PLUMB up to his
notch If you try 10 bully him into II. You
'cant MAKE the huskiest piano-mover
that ever walked downstairs move 'em To
the height of his ability by seeking TO
hnlldoze him BIT. by spradGlin. the
paste around. YOU can get the hlshest-
what-is in the way of effort and work out
|of EN-.
Same with ball players. Ball PLAYERS.
before they're bali players at all, are hui
man. And they remain human alter they
become ball players. That's why, when
any body in the, managerial line tries to
|crowd 'em. they curl up like slX-lnch
eel al the end of your Wum-b aited line.
The instant it becomes manifest 10 the
average ball player that his manager Is
irving to rap him into playing pan by
the knocking or sneering or ridiculinS or
threatening-to-can process he's there with
q case of the sulks the absolute lay
downs as big as Yukon timber wolf
so that ginl, thinks he's going to dish
ii out to me. hey? says the pali payer
to himself when he perceives that his
manager has got short piece of sasplte
concealed beneath his weskit and is dis.
posed TO use II. SO that's IL, IS II;
Uh-huh Ali right. ! wouldn't play pan
for that buckle if he had q Calling gua
trained on me- I'll just make little bit
Of q noise like as IL meant TO play ball
for him. But hand him out the pest We
sote Go way, ToWZe' Nev-VER.
That's the way the bounded PAL prayer
argufies it out 18th himself.
Different. though--oh. so different-Wlth
the ball player who Is staked to tina
iubricating treatment OF when jennings
and Mack are TIE supp eie me-
The oiled ball player is just as easy
to handle as any little che-iid that's
staked to paper bag of sumdrops:
Even if the ball player is perfectly
aware that he's being treated to that
grease 'em-along treatment. he likes It.
He falls for it, He'll deliver the goods
in return for IT.
Same everywhere. in or out of base
ball
You're acquainted with fellows whom
you know perfectly we'll are accomplish
cd hunk artists They're the boys who
hand YOU the hearty young clout on the
back when they meet you. ana tell you
that Gosh a mighty but you're looking
WELL and, sa-a where the dickens Ola
you get that swell suit o clothes. and
they heard from Teller the other day
that you were grabbing out all kinds O
coin for yourself. and they were glad
to hear it. at that. for you always were
there with the goods and all YOU ever