El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-04
Connie Mack Has Done Most Toward
undermining the Game Of Baseball
Something of the Methods
of the Wonderful, Silent
Man of Athletics.
(BY W. J. MACBETH

FEW YORK, May 4-The public
/ IN sits in admiration and awe OF
Connie Mack's worlds champion
/ Athletics. The team which humbled the
! Giants in the worlds series last fall
] is universally conceded to be one OF
| the very hest aggregatiOns produced
. In the history OF the national paSume-
Yet, in the veuerat1On of the capaDlllIy
Of that wonderful machine. the public
is prone TO overlook the genius OF the
man who fashioned it,
Connie Mack did not fall heir to any
such collection O. stars he mad 70 ulg
up each and every one OF them. His
ultimate success IS but a tribute TO ms
foresight and rare judgment For in
his own uuasSumlng quiet way, Mack
as changed the business politics of the
great organized profession. The leader
Of the Athletics was pioneer IN MS
81 He fOresaw ten years ago the
great development to which TINS sport
would attain in q decade He realized
that each year il would become more
difficult 10 secure desired talent
through purchase and trade Before
the rival managers ever dreamed or
paying serious attention TO the scout
ing end OF the business. Connie Mack
had raked the minor organizations and
colleges with a fine tooth comb.
Has Great Scouting system.
No club in organized baseball has
such a perfect scouting system as that I
II Connie Mack He himself is the /
great chief OF the sleuthing department (
and his is the final judgment. He is p.
tipped off 10 more good green players :
than any other three managers. simply I
because his great network OF espion- /
age was established before rivals woke !
% 10 his wonderful advantage The /
Athletics were in on the ground floor /
and so long as Mack remains in the +
game Philajelphias Americans will !
continue to have first call
Until Connie Mack entered the major .
league field managers looked little fur
Their ahead than the tips OF their noses.
They were content TO dwell upon the .
present so far as results were con
cerned. Mack studied the future. His
planned fully five years ahead He
looked the situation squarely ia the o.
face He saw In star not his present 7.
begin TO pale and fade He figured +
TO have that day some newcomer To
step into the declining veterans shoes
and he always planned on having I'm
his substitute man far more capable
In every DEPARTMENT of the game.
When Mach Was Fooled
Connie Mack was caught Mapping just &
5uce. That was in 1906 He was fooled Z
by his champion aggregation Of 1905.
the bunch that was so badly shown uu .
by the Giants Mack overestiruated the
period or usefulness of many of his
-eterans- The series with the Giants
opened his eyes 10 his mistake There
vas a general hOuSe-Cleaning the fol-
owing year Then il was that the willy
quaker set out in earnest to develop
almost single-hauded the great machine
he now controls.
His case was similar to that of Nc
raw The gallant leader Of the Polo
-rOunders was i'm identicaUv the same ,
TX as Mack, though he did not know
{. Half the old champions OF 9O5 had
raCked out on McGraW's hands during
he hot pennant pace. The worlds
cries Of that year gave McGraw no