The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-25
CONNIE MACK
MAKES SPEECH
Silent Manager Of Worlds Champ
ions Gives His Views Of
Big Series.
ENCOURAGEMENT HELPED
Stars Of Other Teams Gave Ise-
ful Advice on How to
Defeat Cub.
ENCOURAGEMENT HELPED


PHILADELPHIA, PA, Oct. 25.---
. At a dinner. which vas part ct
the royal reception accorded the
worlds champions following their re-
/ turn home. Connie Mack. the silent
one" crawled out Of his shell and
made a speech. AS usual, he spoke
no useless words ane everything he
saia-aas- flill, of meaning.
The following extract from his
I speech viii give an idea Of how the
/ big series with the Cubs looked To the
| great manager:
Before we had even einehed the
pennant in the American League
! there was much discussion the coun-
try over as to our strength or weak
ness. remember meeting fan /
knew in Chicago when We were there
playing the White SoN for the last
j time. this season. He sought me out
at the PLAYERS bench and told me
what great catcher King MAS and
how none Of my men would he rble
to steal nn him.
Then he said we @otad be power
less before Browns curves. and that
the three fingered pitcher would keep
every man OF us from getting far away
frem first, even il we dared To brave
Kings arm And he went on to
. explain what stiff proposition we
were going mp again in Evers and
! Tinker and the rest OF them. mere
~ replied Well, II what YOU say is
true We might as Well not play the
Cubs at alt
When we started in IA play the
Cubs We had talked il all over to-
gether. and we thought Chances men
must he Il wonderful team, and that
Ne were going to go up against it.
". had heard 90 much of the wonder
full baseball machine Chicago had.
and | guess, like many others. we
believed we were going to have to
contend with hard proposition. But
We realized that made little differ
ence, and that We had To play them.
| and play them to win.
Encouragement Helped.
We received much announcement
from the best players on other Amer
lean and even National League teams
who had played against the Cubs. for
which we Were grateful. and which
helped Us to believe that We would
not do 30 badly after all.
"'Ty' Cobb, one Of the greatest If
not the greatest. baseball player In
uniform TO-DAY. WAS one of those who
helped us with words OF encourage
ment and advice. Wild Biz Demo
van. who had pitched against the
Cubs, told iaS not To worry, but just
Ia wade in. He said the Cubs would
not compare with us, all OF which
helped.
Our critics said we were weak be-
hind the bat. Well. believe the
Cubs tried 10 go down No second ten
or twelve times during the series
and they found that Thomas and even
I.app We're rot the duhs they had
been rated tt be. / think two or
three OF Chances men were credited
with stolen bases, They said the
Cubs would probably have trouble
with anr pitchers. and | guess they
did, Some time before the series
was booked To start, / said to BEN
der Albert / am not going to pitch
You any more this season. You are
going to pitch in the worlds series.
and you are year own boss from now
until then
Left IL TO Bender.
BENDER and ! talked 1t over and
| left 1t entirely 10 his Judgment as
TO how he might best prepare FOR the
first game Of the series, for / knew
that would be crucial one--~in fact,
II meant almost everything
We had another pitcher who could
A"aii otkeieF IMAM lfGHuGT ana Stlsi be
there with the goods mean Coomhs.
! will admit that he looked little
bad In the first game he pitched in
the series. but In the second he did
better. and they simply could not beat
him in the third. We did have other
pitchers thar were Just aS capable to
do the right kind OF work as these
two. but we We're going along 80 nice
iv with Bender and Coombs that we
didn't think 1t necessary to take a
chance in the series with the others
Plank you all know to be great
left-hander. and there are Morgan
and krause, and Atklns--and Dygert,
toe. he is no slouch.
Praises Team.
Then the critics began to tear
our outfield and infield to pieces. Col
iins or any OF the rest OF us weren't
to steal any bases on King or Archer.
Chance said. Get that fellow Collins.
but they didn't do II.
We had a quiet young fellow at
short--a young man named Barry
who proved himself the finest ever
We certainly answered our critics
There was a Baker at third. He did
some wonderful fielding, and 1t was
4 shame the way he hit the ball"
Mack went on to heap encomiums
upon Danny Murphy. Bris Lord, Amos
Strunk. and the rest Of his players.
He praised Oldring m having done
10 much to win the pennant for the
Athletics and said 1t Wan 4 sad blow
to every one OF us when he was UNI
able toy play in the SERIES.
Mack spoke of McInnea. Houser and
Derrick as ''our coming players" aud
lauded Donohue and Paddy Living
ston ana Jack L4app In fact, thern
wRs not a man who has worn d White
Elephant uniform this year who did
not receive favorable mention from
his chief
ketclsel Leaves $4,000.