The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18
WHO DESERVES CREDIT FOR GOOD
 WORK 0F TEAMS?

A subject under consid eration by many people is to whom belongs the credit for the Cincinnati team of 1e12-to Clarke Griffith, who form ed the club, or to .Hankn O'Day, to whom it fell as legacy. Others are wondering as to the lewiston of the honor for the showing the White Sox'' have made, whether to Hugh Duffy, who spent the greater part. of two years experimenting with green material, or to James Callahan, who is reaping the reward of those ex- periments. Fans in different parts of the country have not yet stopped ask ing whether all the credit for the wonderful Cub" machine of the last 1910 belonged to Frank Chance and none of it to, Frank Selee. his pre- decessor.
 :. The answers to all of these specu- lations is to be found in another ques- tion. To whom belongs the credit for bringing an 18-hour flier across the 1,000-mile. gap between Chicago and New York on time to the minute three out of five trips-to the me- chanical engineer and skilled machin- ists who constructed the giant loco motive, or to the daring engineer who sits at the throttle and drives that machine at it's, top speed with such success? The engineer could not get the results he does without material fit to produce those results. No more could the baseball manager win pen nants without pennant winning ma terfals. But a poor engineer could no more cover 100 miles in 90 minutes than pOor baseball manager could take a team of ''Ty' Cobbs and "Christv'' Mathewsons and win pen nant with them.
 To the man who gets results be- longs the lions share of the public Appreciation in these days. whether it be in the world of business or or, not scrutinized in business as they are in baseball, when almost every thing that counts must be done in the open. Clark Griffith did not get out of the Cincinnati Reds the same brand of ball that Hank" O'Day is han has taken a small quantity of young blood, and with his own per sonality in addition, has infused a fighting spirit into the White Sox'' that Hugh Duffy could, not instin in practically the same men during the two years jhe had charge of the team, Frank Chance added Sheckard and NeCAiiAOiNS " SAAO eOetAAAs W AAASh dSAfA Selee left when he had to quit Chi cago on account of ill health. And Chance got results out of the Cubs that no one else would have dared predict for him when he took charge of the outfit
 Neither Cincinnati nor the White Sox' may win a pennant this year, but enough of the season already is over to make it possible to predict with much confidence that both the Reds" and the White Sox" will be in the fight for the flag unless they are knocked completely out of the run- ming by accidents which cannot be foreseen and which no manager. no matter how astute, can guard against. The Cubs" may not win the National League pennant for the fifth time in six seasons, but they will not be down and out of the race when the race gets hottest unless they are shot to pieces. The unbeaten spirit is there yet
 Connie" Mack of the Athletics is not subject to the foregoing specula- tion. The elongated and systematic pessimist who holds the reins in Phil adelphfa has builded his own teams and from materials which he has gath cred himself So has John McGraw of the New York Giants. They have not only been mechanical engineers. but locomotive drivers as well. and