Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-06
AND MACK ARE TWO
OF GAMES ABLEST LEADERS
Comparison Of the Field Generals Who
Will Guide the League Champions
in Coming Worlds Series.
Bv John B. Foster.

By John B. Foster.
NEW YORK, October 6.-No two men
ever pilot a Mississippi sand boat just
alike. Let it be added to that statement
that no two shippers ever steer fishing
boat just alike.
And there are other occupations In
which the men who are at the head OF
affairs do not handle similar enterprises
In a similar manner.
Connie Mack, really Cornelius Mac
Gillicuddy-don't know whether that CAPT.
tai 'G" belongs there or not. but up In
the little town Of Spencer. Mass. from
which he sprang, they say that it isn't
necessary-is the head Of the Philadelphia
American League base ball club and has
been the head of it before when it won
the championship.
Frank L. Chance, who was born in Cali
fornia, central part Of the state. Fresno
being the name of the place and the
principal occupation about 1t being the
raising Of grapes for raisins. is the cap
tain of the Chicagos. also champion
base ball club, and he has been the man.
ager of championship base ball clubs
prior to this year.
Wherein They Disagree.
These men are not temperamentally
alike.
If Mack were sent to milk the spotted
white COW he would go forth, find the
COW, milk her. and return to the house
with the pail filled.
II Chance were sent to milk her he
would start. swap knives with boy on
the way, and perhaps return with base
ball and q bat. and the promise of some
other boy that he would bring the milk
home just as soon as he found the COW.
Furthermore. IL the boy did not return
Chance would go after him and see that
the milk got home, but he would not
lose a little golden opportunity to specu-
late on the way II the chance afforded.
Not that one Is not as faithful to his
interests as the other. Quite the reverse.
But one manager is a plodder and a
thinker, and with it all methodical and
precise.
The other Is more impulsive. more like
ly to experiment., and more likely to be
shaky now and then as to his own judg-
ment and seek that of others.
Mack asks no judgment but his own,
and il he is wrong he assumes all the
burden of being wrong
Chance occasionally seeks the other
wrong he does not reproach the other
men, but he reproaches himself for not
relying upon his own convictions.
Mack and His Players.
Mack will tell player to do a certain
thing and expects him to do it il it is
possible for him to do so. II the player
fails he is seldom reproved. If he tried
his best he is never reproved. If he
did not try his best the player knows
il. even though the manager says moth
ing about it.
Chance will tell a player to do a GER
tain thing. and if it is not done he is
likely to reprove the man in a manner
which is not soon forgotten. The tongue
lashings which he has given his pitchers
they had emanated from the captain of
a deep-sea-going pirate craft. Yet the
players take most Of the criticism meek
~, because they believe that Chance can
do things on his own account, and have
great confidence in his ability as field
captain.
Mack purrs and talks in low voice to
his players. and when they cut up and
do things which they should not do he
almost weeps as he tells them about 1t.
II he feels In the htfnor to use harsh
words he does So Sometimes his lam
guage would make a dashboard look
like the sands of the beach. Don't think
for moment that his players do not
flare back at him now and then. They
do. Yet they don't bother him much
and he doesn't bother them much, be-
cause he plays ball himself. More than
that. he plays ball which helps them to
win.
Mack Outlines His Plans.
Mack will play great deal Of base
ball for the championship from a plan
which he has drafted in his own mind.
He tells the players when he has meet
ings with them what they should do
to beat the other team. Sometimes a
cog slips. and when IL does the play
ers are not always fitted to meet the
emergency.
Chance takes the game on the field
az he finds 1t. He is smart enough to
know when his own club is not play
ing ball well and Is pretty quick at dis
covering some of the weaknesses of his
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