Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-05
CHANCE GIVES THE
CREDIT TO HIS men
SAYS He Owes His Success to
Keeping Good will of
Players.
Special Dispatch to Tue Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO Ill. September 5.-Manager
Chance OF the Chicago National League
base ball team recently was asked how
he succeeded in keeping his club on top
in the struggle for the National League
championship. Before answering this
question the manager hesitated. as " de-
batting whether to give the credit to the
pitchers or batters Then he replied:
Il am not responsible for the success
the credit II did not have a set of
high class ball players. 1t is certain the
Cub team would not be leading the
league. Look at Pittsburg Clarke has a
good set OF ball players. but they are
not on top. And Clarke is reputed as
being a heady and clever manager. which
shows that IL depends on the players
manager possesses.
"Of course. a manager has most OF the
responsibility of running a team Much
of INV success has been due to keeping
the good will of the men and getting the
results out of them. / Go not drive them,
but ask them to give me the best they
have, which they have been doing. ana
wrangling Keeping a club in condition
also is a potent factor in championship
race and that is why the players on the
Chicago team are prepared to go In
hard series and win We have shown
that several times and l am positive we
will repeat this season.
Whether the pitchers or the batters
should be given the more credit is hard
question to answer correctly. But II L
were brought before jury and an an
would favor the batters. My pitching
staff has not been what I thought we
would be when the season started The
hardest blow IL suffered was when Ed
Reulbach fell ILL., Later Overall was
knocked out OF II and 1t was some time
before Brown rounded to form. Pfester
was slow in developing and then broke
his hand. Now. had all those men re-
NAMED In shape / believe We would have
the pennant won by this time. judging
from the manner in which we have in
creased our lead under the handicap.
ct will not make any predictions. the
club cannot be called weak because have
been out. or Hoffman. Tinker and Stein
feldt have been absent from the lineup.
We have been winning games and increas-
ing our lead. and when team does that
against clubs like New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston and Brooklyn 1t cannot De
regarded as weak. I am pleased with
Archer's work on first base and as long
as he continues his good work there
will not hurry myself to get back. king
is in shape and can stand the work. Glib
son did IL last year nearly every Day
Zimmerman's fielding and hitting have
been pleasing to behold. When I put him
in Steinfeldt's place I was looking for
wild throws continually, but, to my sur
prise, he threw as accurately as 1 care to
receive them at first base, and has been
doing 1t since.
ut is no use talking about how badly
we are going to beat the other fellow.
Pittsburg has slumped just the way any
club is likely to. What probably weak
ened the team mostly were the pitchers
and Wagner's failure to hit 1t is differ
ent with the Cubs. They all hit well and
timely. Schultz is coming as I expected.
and Holman is UP to his ability. and
Evers and Tinker are smashing out hits
when they are needed. which counts in
ball game. They have been doing that
all season, and are responsible
for the many series we took from the
eastern and western clubs"