El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-16
CONNIE MACK HAS
REMNANT RACE
IN HAND
Stands Fine Chance to An
mex Worlds Champion
ship For Athletics
lBr w. $. Farnsrorthl

Athletics win the gonfalon N Dan
Johnson circuit they Will deIeaI th he
National league representatives III INC
series next month. :.
Cornelius McGillicuddy-for that IS
Connie Mack's real name-is proDaDiy
one OF the shreWdest and greatest
baseball generals the game ever knew.
A corking good ball player@a catcher-
himself, he has developed INTO
greater manager. He is unquesuonaDIy
the best manager in the American
ieaene and If the Giants should win
the National league Eennant ana tne
Athletics land in first in their circuit
it will be interesting to watch the
work of Mack and John McGTaW IN
the worlds series. For McGraw is the
greatst leader in Tom Lyncns orsan-
When Ban Johnson induced Uncle Ben
Shibe to put an American league
team in Philadelphia, Connie Mack was
cast upon him as q manager oy p.
Bancroft, who believed that the ldnhy
fellow would make an IDEAL Ieauer oI
players. Johnson instructed Shioe 70
LET Mack do all the managing and 70
trust and confide in him. That was
enough for Uncle Ben. Anything Ban
said went with him, SO he gave Con
ME full charge of the club. And he
Certainly has never been sorry since,
for Mack has given him penhant WI
Ters and made him barrel of money
besides.
7, 1902 Mack won the first pen
nant for Shibe and the Philadelphla
fans when he moulded the following
nIayers into IA championship team.
Waddell, Plank and Hastings, pitch
Davis. Murphy, Monte and Lave
Cross. infielders; Fultz, Seybold and
Hartsel, outfielders.
Connie pulled out another penna AM
only Plant, Waddell. Schrecks Pow
ers and Davis, but also Bender coax
ley, Knight, Hoffman and LORD tnis
great team, however. su1Iere1 oei tbe
Giants, but only because or the won9o-
erful pitching of Marhewson ana NC
Ginnity.
Today most of these stars have gone
to minor leagues or else are out OF
the game for good Powers. Schreck'
Waddell, the two Crosses, Ho1Iman'
Seybold. Coakley and Knight are mis-
sing. Harry Davis rs still with the
team. but young McInnes has re-
placed him as regular first baseman.
In place of these former stars, MACK
has dug up and developed Eddie COL
Inns into the star second baseman of
the country: Jack Berry. lightning
fast man, is playing shortstop; BAKER,
a slugger and a second Jimmy COL
Inns, is at third base; while RUDE
Oidring is mingling with Hartsel'
Lord and Murphy in the outflela,
Danny Murphy being shifted from a, an
infield into a gardener InoihaS' r Lr
ingston and Lapp have replaced fo"-
ers and Schreck behind the bat.
Mack deserves all the credit Tor DE.
welcoming these new men, every one OF
them a star and when they STAT 70
''blow" he has lines on hundreds OF
other young players who are develop
inc their powers in the bushes Mack
has more material within calllng tnan
America or National league. There
is hardly a town on the map tnat
doesn't possess some young man VINO
belongs" to the Athletics
Mack's success is due to many reas-
ons. In the first place he knows
every angle of scientific, modern base
ball Then again he is an Incompatible
Judge of young material He is even
players and clever and shrewd
student of human nature. He cannot
be hoodwinked and is a disciplinarian.
yet he is seldom forced TO reprimand
a PLAYER for his conduct
Knights Experience.
Jack Knight. now with the New
York Americans, or YANKEES, as they
are known to the fan, tells me the
following that happened while he was
with the Athletics:
Connie walked up to me the first
day I played with the AtnIetics.
says Knight. ~and said: Look here
best and do your best for me, and
if you make good I will see that you
are properly rewarded. If you can't
make good. there are plenty others
A player must deliver the goods for
Mack, in other words.
Connie is a strong advocate OF en-
ergy and harmony, but while he is
aggressive, he doesn't believe in rowdy-
ism. He will not have rough neck"
on his club. He demands clean ball
and will not stand for umpire bait
ing. He figures that decisions Of the
I'M in
Mack has grown wealthy since tax
ing hold OF the Philadelphia club
Starting as a manager at fair sal
airy, he has worked himself not only
into, a salary close to $4,000 a year
but is also heavy stakeholder In
the club. However it is whispered that
he is the real owner of the Baltt-
uses as a farm for his big league
AS 1 have said before, it looks now
as though Mack will match his skill
as a field general against McGraw
next month, but whether he can oufwit
the great national league chief re-
mains to be seen m..S
Cornelius McGillicuddy was born in
Brookfield, Massachusetts,, in 1852, and
began his baseball career with the
club, of the Connecticut league,
in 1884. The two following years
found him with the Hartford club, of
the same league. The latter part OF
the season Of 1886 he joined the Wash
ington club. playing with them until
1890, when Buffalo secured his services.
He stayed with the Bisons, as they
are now called. one season, going to
Pittsburg, where he did the backstop-
ping for six consecutive seasons. He
managed the team from August, 1894,
until the end of August, 1896.
In 1897 he cast his lot with the
club of the Western league
and remained there until the Spring of
1901, when his Milwaukee franchise
was transferred to Philadelphia and
the Athletic club, one of the mainstays
of the American league, was formed.
The first season in the new league he
brought his club up to fourth place
early in the season. and they finished
occupying that berth.
In 1902, despite the severe set back
received through the ruling of the
Pennsylvania supreme. court, in the
cases of Lajoie, Flick. Fraser and
Bernhard. he succeeded in moulding
a championship team from material
that looked like a tail ender. and won
the pennart In 1903 the team fin
ished bang up second, and was fifth
in 1904, again pennant winner in 1905.
dropping back to sourth in 1906.
Macks team in 1907 was second, but
in 1908 finished sixth. New material
found his club second best in 1909
and last season they captured the
American league gonfalon in a walk