The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-06
Pittsburg Fans
 Don't Appreciate Fred CIarke's Work
Pirate Manager Keeps City on Baseball Map and
 Yet Crowds Hiss Him.

flIlSDufS, July D. why iS ~ @AA'-S we have to go outside of Pittsburg to find support for such an able and ca- pable manager as Fred Clarke of the Pittsburg Club"
 The above query, propounded by correspondent of The Dispatch last week. contains more than modicum it be necessary to look elsewhere for support of a man who has done so much for baseball in Pittsburg! Also, is 1t necessary to Ego outside of Pitts burg" to discover this support? We think not.
 Pittsburg appreciating the Corsair manager at his true worth? Just now there is no player in either big league who Is playing better game than the veteran Pirate manager. Batting at 9 clip fast enough to lead swatters as Wagner, Magee, Snodgrass and Roy Miller, Sir Frederick is real ly one of the sensations of the game. Sir Mercer, who travels with the New York Giants in the interests of the New York Globe, recently wrote the
 Old Bill Aulick included Fred Clarke in his "One Hundred Notable Figures in Baseball and in all of the baseball dictionaries of the future you will find opposite the word Fred Clarke the following synonym; old, rs- bonds, and other words and phrases denoting steadfastness of purpose and achievement. To put 1t plainly, you can set in bet on this Fred Clarke for win, place, and show, on the sea sons race. and go to sleep on it. He doesn't disappoint.
 Clarke comes from Kansas, where they grow the finest specimens in all the kingdoms and Queendoms, animal, vegetable and sporting. John J. 1n- gals, the greatest orator of modern times came from Kansas. So did they all combined to make Kansas the most picturesque state in the re- public.
 Not the least notable of the Kan sans is Clarke. the baseball giant; CarKeswnof for three years led the left made a mark the highest on record in the National league, who for ten years batted over 300 and who plaut- ed the first pennant in Pittsburg and followed it up with two more of the same sort in immediate succession. You've heard of Clarke.
 Fred Clarke is graduate farmer cist. He was brought up on the old homestead and you can argue any, thing you like out of that. The biog- raphers like to dwell on the country lads who reach eminence, and there's no harm in the practice.
 Anyway, Fred was a. chore boy on the prairie and baseball player on the level. Long before the worlds fair he was playing with the Mas cottes of DesMoines and they made wise pick when they added him to had strayed few states west watch ed the work of Young Clarke and snapped him for the Tennessee team. That was move number one. Billy Barnie, who solved problems for Louisville. glimpsed Clarke at his next thing Fred was Col. Clarke of Kentucky. Move two.
 Louisville like Clarke and Clarke liked Louisville and between the two of them they became famous. A good part of Clarke's excellent record was made with the Louisville team, and 1t was real loss to the burg when Boss Dreyfuss beckoned the willing worker to the Pittsburg pasture.
 But what was Kentucky's depriva- ton was distinct gain to Pennsy Clarke threw himself into the bigger work with spirit that cast out Ill thought of the teams past disappoint- ments. He was given the management and captaincy of as likely a crew as he wished to look at, and he de- Sluco ludI II He COQlQn plant a pen- nant where none had grown before, he'd back out of the state and com mupe with the cows on his native prairies.
 That wasn't necessary. Pittsburg ran good second in that 1900 year, and by this time, having felt out his ma terial, Fred was not to be headed. He piloted Pittsburg into the winning stride in 1901, 1902 and 1908, and he made the name of Pirates the most dreaded in all the land of baseball.
 While he was doing these big things for the team he was serving up an individual example that had as much to do with encouraging his players as all the precept you could utter in a big league season His own record for big batting stood: 1854. .s27. .4os,, .s1s. .34s. .S1s. .s21, 1851; .so6; and 1909. In left fielding he led the league in 1901 with a mark of .967 in 1904 he felded .97s and in 1907 and again in 1909 he led with .Ss7, the highest figures since the beginning of organized professional ball in 1871. And all the time run ming bases like an outside man at race track in the days before the trouble. Besides which he covered the ground as thoroughly as blizzardy snowstorm and never felt fatigue
 Its a good thing there isn't team made of nine Fred Ciarkes. It would rob the game of all interest.
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