The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-09-02
FANS Do CR|T|CIS|NG
Baseball Managers Would Be
Rich il Advice Were Dear.
LEADER MUST STAND PANNING
Man Who Goes to Ball Game Thinks
He Knows More About Running
Team Than tho Pilot himself-Many
Letters Received.

Letters Received.
II advice were not so cheap the man
ngers Of the major league baseball
teams would be the richest men IN the
world. for, goodness knows. they get
more advice than any other class of
harassed patriots. Nearly every man
who goes 10 II ball game thinks he
knows as much as, Ii not more than,
the manager. and many OF them spend
almost the entire afternoon lmpartlng
their knowledge 10 the unfortunate
who happens to be in charge OF the
0ome club.
Results are about all that count In
nseball, and the different managers
ave different ways Of getting results,
VI they all have the same critics IN
10 blenchers and stands not to mem
ON the press box, and TO listen 10
st a 1.-THE OF the suggestions from
10 wiseneres Id drive any ball
ub's pilot to tie bubbles IN big
hurry.
IL IL almost impossible to believe that
during the heat OF the National League
race last summer Manager Chances
mail would frequently amount to a
bnshel of letters day. \ lot OF folks |
thought they knew more about run
ming the Chicago Nationals than he
did, and blng!-they rushed for a /
Faber No. 2 and favored the manager /
with their vaporings. Some Of the
suggestions We're dressed In language
which even an umpire would have
considered pretty rugged stun.
Fielder Jones had almost as many
letters to look over. and 80 did all the
other managers of big and little teams.
the number varying with the teams
position.
Few fans realize what strain a
baseball manager has to undergo IL his
team Is up IN the race. And the tail
enders have even more TO answer for,
but from another quarter.
Manager Murray of the Philadelphia
Nationals meets his army of critics
about as eleverly as any of them
When they tell him that he should
have pitched Sparks instead OF Cove
leskie and thereby STAYED OF a defeat
he says. with a grin, Sure; / know
that"
Then why didn't you do itY' is the
next question.
Well answers Murray, Il didn't
Snow II until had tried It. You see.
had to do the guessing first You
lad the second guess. which gave you
letual results TO base your opinion on"
And so II goes. After Il losing game
he home fans file out OF the gates
owing that the manager couldn't
hink twice the same afternoon. and
alter large number OF them tell him
o In anonymous letters
But n managers chief worry is to !
eep peace In the family and get the
york out Of his players. Handling a
ack OF wildcats or flock of prima
onnas Is easy compared with the
task when his team is Just
centlng a pot of prize money as re-
iard for the honor OF fighting It's way
lto the worlds series.
Here Is Chance In the eighth inning
n tight game near the close OF the
eason aud whole lot depending on
ne outcome; Say. Overall Tor Brown
+ Phesteri, | can kick that ball up 70 |
he plate better than you are pitching
Get back into that box now and |
low me some break ON that curve
All" And he says It for keeps too.
yerall. or whichever pitcher II hap
ms 20 be, knows the boss means all
ght, so he refrains from sassing back
Int method has won three flags for
nance. SO It must be the right one, at
ast In this case.
Another manager would get the liz
me result by saying: Work hard. II
u. old kid You've got this bunch on |
Q ropes
shance happens TO be Of the stub
rn kind. His PLAYERS expect a GER -,
IN amount OF bawllag out for every ~,
splay. and they get it. and then -
me, But when the game IS over -
lether Il Is won or lost. Chance IS ~,
rry for what he said aud shows IT, u
her managers Jennings is notable the
ample-rely on the slap ON the hack ne,
keep the slayers lighting. ~,
fielder Jones' best stunt was 10 r
ht the umplres TO finish. He had bo,
pinycrs thlnklng they we're being we
,bed all the while. aud they got so h,l
ID they fought TO the last ditch har
ohm McGraw of the New York Ma wa
nails keeps the pot boiling all the ave
10. driving HIS men TO their best en-. rho
,yor by making every game a life II
death erapple. In justice TO Me gar
aw II should be said that better wo
err never played the game When
last man is out "Mugsy" Is first r.
peace
ianager Lijcle OF the Clevelands I
says the acme of grace. assumes an
OF superiority and seems 10 say -
"a fellows lnow what Is up to YOU A
W deliver" larry never does the the
Dne thing IL a game. and his men Yut
70 their work cut out Ia following n,
pace. mn,
pc Can;lllion OF Washington. perhaps ran,
quickest IN wit Of any manager Won,
Y IN the game. flays his PLAYERS n
b sarcasm often and So far hasn't pa,
aimed any astonishing results. vist