The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
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Copyright, 1910, by
The Reilly g. Britton Co,

ther than they would order another
TO go,
Comiskcy. perhaps the greatest field
general the game has ever known, as
well as the most successful silent man
ager, is proof in himself that the play
ing manager is the one that wins. Co
miskey always is the guiding spirit OF
his teams, no matter who the manager
may be- After retiring from active
play, he had the good fortune TO dis
cover able lieutenants TO lead his teams
and execute his orders. besides think.
ing 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 victorious
After the overwhelming, defeat of his
| team for the championship of Chicago
| IN 1909 Comisliey remarked quietly:
| "This hurts. They had the better
| team. What we needed was n leader
then we could have beaten them even
with poorer team. / hnve made money
| in baseball, but ] would give every
thing L have 10 be able to go ont there
with me TO win, and lead that team. -
The position Of manager of a team
in n major league is one of the most
nervc-racking, exhausting and desper.
ate in the calendar of work. Primarily,
the manager is responsible for the ere
ating and assembling of the team. in
which duty there are hundreds of on
portunitles to make mistakes. He is
responsible for the condition of the
men, both in preparation for the sea-
son and during the entire playing sea
son. He is responsible for the seec-
tion OF the pitchers every day; in this
alone bad manager could cause q
team TO drop from first 10 last place
in a month. Upon him rests the burden
Of deciding what stvle Of attack and
defense shall be used in any game or
IN the crisis of the game. More than
that. he Is held responsible by the spec
tators and by the press, which is Sc
we're, and by the FANS who add
cruelty 10 criticism, for every defeat
lshmael would have felt as If he was
the guest of honor compared 10 the
manager, who with a strong "paper'
team finishes far down in the race and
Lazarus and Job could not have felt as
sore and boiling as he. In addition,
the manager frequently must either en-.
dure or suppress criticism and open
opposition IN his own ranks. The dav
Jobs biggest boil broke he must have
felt exactly as did Tom Burns one aft
ernoon when he was managing the Chi
cago club.
q Push it of to the righ field" he
ordered the batter who was starting
10 the plate
Why, YOU old gray-headed stiff. YOU
hit 2l2 The last season You PLAYED, -
responded the PLAYER.
The crowd which cheers the PLAYERS
has little conception of the trials and
tribulations of the manager who. per.
haps. crouches unseen and forgotten (by
the crowd. in the corner of the bench.
The public does not realize that ne is
dealing with twenty-five ultra-inde.
pendent athletes. vulgarly healthy,
frankly outspoken aud unawed by any
authority or pomp. Only persons who
have one child, which possesses four
grandparents, and twenty or thirty
aunts all irving to spoil IT, can under
stand IN full the difficulties of the
manager s Job
Ball PLAYERS are about as spoiled. un.
reasonable and pampered as "a matinee
IDOL, and are worse because they are
usually young and have not even the
saving grace of experience 10 guide
them The average ma ior league play
er is a youth who has Jumped from
small wages 10 q comfortable income
IN few weeks, from the criticism of
the home crowd Of few dozen persons
TO the applause and cheers of perhaps
10000 persons. He is sought after,
and pampered. He meets men
and women of high standing who |
thought1essly praise him. The sur |
prising, thing is that bali players who
succeed are not worse spoiled.
The Young ball PLAYER has brilliant !
day; he is exalted, He has a bad dav. !
aud the excited abuse heaped upon
him By the crowd burns ms sensitive !
soul. He becomes cynical and bitter. |
In short time he either is a E'bup'; |
or a "grouch. He has all the day. |
except a short time in the afternoon
and perhaps an hour IN the morning. TO !