The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-17
ATHLETICS YOUNG,
SCARCELY HAVING
USE FOR RAzORS
Champs" Most Youthful
I Bunch of Players in ~
Fast Set.

PHILADELPHIA, June H.-Adjusting
the adage. In times Of peace prepare
for war;" to baseball. Connie Mack, the
man who constructed the Worlds
Champions. has profited by the fate Of
Frank Chance. Of the Cubs, and the
Athletics today are the youngest nine in
the fast set. and there are a half a
dozen athletes on the pay roll of the
lean Lehighite who have no use for
razors.
1t has never been doubted by that
FRANK Chance once P. L. built a ball
team That deserved to, and did, win on
lts merits, the big earthly championship,
Out ne erred in that he allowed timbers
In MS stockade to age and impede the
strength of the rest of the nine.
Johnny Killing, the catcher, who has
oeen traoed to Boston, once was a mas
Yer maskman. Steinfeldt was a great
tnlrd-oag guardian. at one time; Jimmy
dulled and dimmed the keen edge Of
these veterans, and they came to- the
crisis without any danger signals OF
what was TO happen to them when they
lent play on the part Of the other mem
oers of the Cub nine that pulled the old
er men through the league race.
Some of the Youngsters.
1t has always been a maxim of Con-
ME Mack's that one slow player pulls
up the speed of the rest of the men VINO
have to work with him in team play,
and in order to quicken up the gear Of
the team the better men will make mis-
plays in their excess efforts.
The infield of the champions. Eddie
Collins. Jack Barry. Frank Baker, and
Jack McInnes, is just. as a total, ninety
years OF age. or twenty-five and one
fifth years old. Some college teams av-
erage this, and most every minor league.
does. because 1t contains few veterans
The subsidiary infield, of Claude Der
rick, who is now the only understudy
to Mack's $4,000 quartette, is a soft snap
for any barber, and he holds ten years
of the finest sort of baseball
Ruben" 0ldring, while five years {
White Elephant, is but a school kid:
Bris Lord has years to trample In the
big leagues before he need worry about
the day he has to apply the lotion used
on aged race horses to hit up in the
top set" Danny Murphy is the tough
est hunk of humanity on the Athletic
would be ring wonder. The big-heart-
ed Connecticut citizen holds the honor
OF never having a substitute sit on me
bench. Amos Strunk could play on al
age being questioned.
City Gets Square Deal
The pitchers who freight the floats
and express the egress of the pill for
c. NJ. are still able to remember the
little school house. Chief Bender broke
into the big league when he was old
enough to run out his hits. Jack
Coombs will be on the firing line for
A good many years. Cy Morgan has
not seen his best and Harry KFause
Is still budding into his best. Eddie
Plank. though ten years in the classic
company is going SO good that few
managers would hesitate to ink him
with a long contract.
Seated in the cool tower, the base
Of the ramParts of Shibe Park. scan
ming the tables of the minor leagues.
listening to the reports of his scouts.
making imaginary deals on paper.
Connie Mack. the master mind. 10
giving this city a deal, a clean. hon
est fearless deal in baseball such as
Il has never had since the game OF
the nation was played on the lots
around Market street a hundred years
ago.