Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-28
Thea OMAHA SUNDAY BEE


"HERB are many good things that
cannot be said Of the Cleveland
management. but there il one that
can. Cleveland sets an example in
one respect which other manage
merits might. with profit to themselves
and base ball. follow. When did
you ever hear OF Cleveland Civ
ing out an announcement as to what
this man or that gets Cleveland treats
the matter OF its salaries as q business
proposition which concerns nobody but
Cleveland and Cievelsnd is dead right.
Too many team owners and
make a vulgar display OF these matters.
II r. harmful. exceedingly srmful In the
first place q IL nobody's business what one
man pays another TO work for him. There
isn't anything much more private in its
essential nature than a mans private in
come. In business life this principle is
recognized. Isn't base BAH business But
the point with which the manager should
concern himself. and which Clsve-
land evidently observes. IL that the
practice OF disclosing such things
has a disquieting effect and many
lines a discouraginE result UPON other
players and teams. Players may
know hat each other gets. but having
these things blazed forth in public print
IS much more trying TO patience than keep
ing them hid in secret. IL is a bad BUSH
ness practice and Cleveland has shown
that the mischief is more than
By refraining from falling into Il. The
multiplicity OF hold-outs on account OF
salary this year is Simply one effect OF
constant agitation Of this question. II the
same treatment accorded in other lines Of
business were applied 10 base ball it IL quite
within the probabilities that the number OF
malcontents would be lessened. And that
isn't saying that players should not stand
I'D for their lights and insist on more
pay when they think they are really en-
titled to it. or that a reform in this matter
would do away entirely with such con-
troversies between owner and player. But
that the effect would be mutually helpful
Is not to be questioned.
He's the same old Comiskey." said a
friend WHO met the Old Roman at the
depot going west. That's what they have
been saying for the last twenty Years.
There Is a magic charm about this man
that keeps him ever young. that preserves
q youthful face and elastic step, a childish
zeal and adolescent optimism. He must
be an altrulst. Anyway. he IL a giant OF
success II is this mysterious charm that
makes him so. He doesn't know what the
word lose" means. Cane" 10 not In his
vocabulary; he never says no use. Jones
convinces everybody else that he's through
with base ball Il am still looking for
fielder Jones to run the team this year,
the same as ever" isNComiskey's bland as
sertion. But II Jones does not, II he quits,
somebody else will run the team and the
team viii SO right on winning. That's
Comiskey. He appreciates a mans serv-
ices. but not 10 the point of thinking on
allowing the man to think they arc in
dispensable, and when his strongest prop
is taken from under him he Just leans
over on another. and II it isn't as strong
q support in time, then he gets one that is.
It's the same old, dashing. debonair Comis-
key, who led the old Browns four times 10
the pennant OF the old American associa-
ton and once to the worlds flag. For
diplomacy. strategy and all the elements
that 80 to make managerial acumen. he
perhaps has not yet had his equal In base
ball.