Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-29
MAcKs SUCCESS A LESSON.
Comics Rise Duo to His Attention to
 the Game the Year Round.

The old adage, Shoemaker, stick to your last" has been given Frank Baker punch. The expression is sup posed to have originated as an encour-
 age1nent to apprentices to stick to their line of work instead of trying to seek fortune by jumping from one position to another But the case of Connie
 Mack proves that sboemakers can find success by getting in some other busi- ness by sticking everlastingly at it.
 When Cornelius McGillicuddy wiped
 his name off the payroll of shoe factory down east and went into base
 ball as a profession he took a long
 chance of going hungry in summer and
 cold in winter. In those days baseball
 wasn't rated as the national game of
 American, and even the biggest parks
 in the country had wooden stands for spectators and lots of knotholes for youths who didn't have the price of admission. Even when he became a major leaguer Connie often wondered, as he sized up the few fans in the grounds, where the money came from to pay the salaries of the players.
 Twelve years ago, when the Ameri-
 can league was in progress of forna- tion, Connie could have taken his bank
 roll and gone into business in small town. That was the usual route in the old days for baseball players. h. stead, he took a long chance and de- cided to invest his life's savings in the | club to be formed in Philadelphia. After 12 years of the hardest kind of
 work as a manager and magnate, Con- nie today blossoms out as one of the
 biggest owners of baseball stock in the
 country. He is now owner of a one
 half interest in the Athletic and in
 Shibe park No old time baseball play CT has been able to reach such height. Connie has distanced all of his for
 mer teammates and rivals. By hard
 work. thrift, shrewdness and gameness
 to take long chance he has pushed
 his way upward in the baseball world.
 His success is a lesson to other man. agers and players. Instead of taking life easy during the off season, Man ager Mack has kept himself in touch
 with the game all over the country. He has toiled when others took their vacations and his tireless energy has
 met with it's proper reward. An il- I1stration of how Connie does things
 was shown the other day. Then he
 took a trip to Milwaukee, where minor
 league magnates from all over. the
 country were gathered. In six hours
 of close contact with the men who
 develop the big league stars, Manager
 Mack secured information that he de-
 sired. He acted promptly, and cut adrift six players and secured one-an
 outhelded named Daley.
 With these deals closed, Connie
 broke away from the scenes of tollid-
 cation and hiked back to Philadelphia. Unlike the other baseball men, he wasn't on a vacation. He has a big business proposition to take care of
 thic winter This is to shane LID plans for a team which he hopes will come i back" next year and win the American league pennant Considerable of Con- nie Mack's success is due to his work ! ing while other magnates and managers j are enjoying life. That it pays to stick i to ones last as a shoemaker or as a
 magnate Is shown in the career of the l Athletics leader.