The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-08-05

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their home team fails to win, why the
management cannot follow their adj
vice and 'buy some good players"
Managers and Their Duties.
The laws of baseball, calculated to
create dissatisfaction and ill-feeling
among players, require tt"t a buffer
be. erected between the player and the
owner which shall lessen the friction
and entirely separate the ball field
and the business Office of the club.
Upon the manager devolves the duty
of persuading players that salaries
and fines are part of business and not
associated with playing baseball.
Managers of baseball teams that
win are born to command men, and
they are the rarest products of the
game. To make a team win a man.
ager must rule with a firm hand, lead
with a spirit and dash that keeps the
other members of the club spurred to
highest speed; deal fairly, win with
out gloating, die fighting and be ready
to congratulate his %conqueror. He
must have tact, patience, gameness.
The good manager is a general, gift
ed with the power to rule men as we'll
as to lead them in battle, and his du-
ties upon the field are the lightest
part Of his work-the part that has
least effect upon the result of the pen.
nant race.
Managers are divided into two dis
tinct classes; bench managers who. II
wise, direct and counsel rather than
order their men; and playing man.
ayers who demonstrate the plays and
lead their men in person. The former
is a general directing the battle from
headquarters in the rear; the latter
q Navarro with white-plumed helmet
always in the thickest of the fray. The
playing manager Is the more brilliant,
When he falls he falls harder, al
though with spectacular effect, while
the bench manager lasts longer and
his successes and failures are more
likely to be attributed to others.
AS to the respective value of the
two classes this much can be said.
more pennants have been won by
playing managers In modern baseball
than by bench managers and, within
the last decade the wisest club own
ers have turned to their playing ranks
to find managers rather than to en-
ploy bench managers of known abil-
ity and reputation. The bench man
ayers who have succeeded in every in
stance, have possessed a great field
general to carry out the orders; so
that really the man on the field de-
served a share at least of the honors
of victory.
Comiskey, perhaps the greatest field
general the game has ever known, as
well as the most successful silent
manager, is proof in himself that the
playing manager is the one that wins.
Comiskey always is the guiding spirit
of his teams, no matter who the man.
ager may be. After retiring from ac-
tive play, he had the good fortune to
discover able ~lieutenants to lead his
teams and execute his orders, besides
thinking for themselves. Each time he
has chosen the wrong aide, his team
has lost; each time he has found an
able man, the team has been victori-
Gus. After the overwhelming defeat
of his team for the championship Of
Chicago in 1909. Comiskey remarked
quietly:
This hurts. They had the better
team. What we needed was a lead
er, then we could have beaten them
even with a poorer team. I have made
money in baseball, but l would give
everything I have to be able to 90 out
there before my people, who are plead
ing with me to win. and lead that
team" . ""
The position of manager Of a team
in q major league is one Of the most
nerve racking. exhausting and desper-
ate In the calendar Of work. 1shmael
would have felt If he were the guest
of honor compared to the manager
who with a strong paper" team I'm
ishes far down in the race, and Laza-
rus and Job could not have felt as
sore and boiling az he. In addition.
the manager frequently must either
endure or suppress criticism and open
opposition In his own ranks. The day
Jobs biggest boil broke he must have
felt exactly as did Tom Burns one aft
ernoon when he was managing the
Chicago club.
Push 1t OF to right feld," he or
dered the batter who was starting to
the plate.
Why. you old gray-headed stin. you
hit 212 the last season you played" r.
sponded the player.
The crowd which cheers the play
- hAas Attle conceptiea .os the trials