The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-18
SAD LOT OF
DISCARDED
MANAGER.

/ compelled 10 SIT
g. back in obscurity
somewhere and see some alert indi-
vidual come along and reap the har-
vest OF his good judgment.
The present plight OF Joe Cantlllon
Is the inspiring force OF The above
remark. Joe worked for three sea
4 sons at Washington. TO give the town
something IL hac never mad In league
baseball-a real winner. He took a
tail-ender at the start and il was still
y tail-ender when he got through. But
II Is now a team OF great possibili-
\ ties, and there are others. besides
Joe Cantillon who think ii has an
excellent chance for a first-diyision
\ finish. IL is Jue's team. TO a mau
He built 1t and. perforce turned 1t
over TO Jim McAleer just as he be-
lieved 1t ready TO make good the
labor spent on organization.
OF course, it would look a bit start
ling TO see the chronic Senators out
OF anything but their accustomed and
4 time-honored position in the stand
fngs. Yel IL Is possible And. If the
thing should happen this year. jim
McAleer would re. the credit. while
the best Joe Cantilion could expect
would be a little belated recognition
from those who look beneath the sur
face.
Such a fate. however. is no new lie
Selopmenr in the annals OF baseball.
Frank Selee organized the greatest
baseball machine OF the decade in the
"a Chicago Cubs and Frank Chance got
\ the credit by taking the machine and
"a winning league and worlds champion
ships.
Bill Armour organized club a..
/. cleveland which was undoubtedly
the most formidable man for man,
that the American league has ever
Boosted. Yet Armour left Cleveland.
a discredited magnate He came 10
Detroit. put the Tigers together,
COULDN'T win with them, and WAS
forced to see Huehie Jennings grab
on three successive pennants with
virtually the same team which Ar
mour himself had led To a finish in
sixth place his last year OF incum-
bency.
lin MCGUIRE. backed up by the
B policy OF John l. Taylor who is liJ-
efal, II nothing else put together the
Boston Redsox IN place of the sad
wreck OF the city's old worlds cham
x pions and. with the Young team which
the veteran catcher had organized
Fred Lake Won third place IN the
american league race. gaining much
\ fame which. In the Judgment OF TIE
inner circle OF baseball, should un-
3 Questionaply have gone 20 Mcclure
4 And so the story runs. There have
Been whole lol oe similar instances
in baseball. Teams have been appar
eptly built 10 order for certain pur-
pose by men vino, dnable 20 use the
machine they have built. have seen
n successor, VINO was an operator,
rather than a builder. step in ana
cop the glory.
Just think what a how. the humane
Society would raise were Pop Gecrs
10 try TO race horse that had been
bunged 10 as badly as he is himself!
Word-Dainters in charge of the
+ modern eight publicity seem 70 think
IA necessary 10 harp on the alleged
enmity OF their principals which was
the move used TO attFact attention 10
+ the championship contest between
David and Goliath.
Guess the Tigers won't get gay
with the "Sautone' umpire next
MONTH The Official selected there is
one Jim Jeffrles
\ .sNineteen Hot Bouts at ID. A. c.
reads a headline. But e appears in
n Denver contemporary.
The antipatny 81 the American
1eaeae magnates &c Ban johnson con.
b ffuues. rhe league has sentenced
ian TO 20 years OF hard labor and an
xpcnse account OF $4,000 iu addi.
non to $4,000 salary.
an evrnt az she A. n. a. here T. like
~ fo be n match between Gilbert and
Efana tof ihc cT1afapionship OK Cleye-
fHAd and hig sideteI