Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-01
CONNIE MACK IS
BUILDING A
new CLUB !
Athletics Astute Manager Has
Lineup for Next Year in
Hand and Is Confident of
Figuring in Next Pennant
Race

L
Race
1t took Connie Mack the astute
manager of the Philadelphia Athletics,
FIVE years to b b up pennant win.
! ming club after The defeat of his team
! by the New York Giants In 1906. Two
seasons of prosperity proved too much
for the White Elephants, and How
Mack is at his old tricks OF quietly
constructing another winning ma
chine.
As starter for the new club that
may outshine anything Mack ever as
sembled. the leader OF the Philadel-
Phia club has secured Eddie Murphy,
the fleet and clever hitting yonngster
from the baltimore Orioles in the In
tternational league pronounced by
many to be the best all around player
| in the minors in 1912 lie also grab.
bed Jimmy Walsh from baltimore and
had these two youngsters on exhibit.
| ton recently in Chicago.
Mack also did some clever work re-
Gently in the way of discipling OF his
reealcitrants He knew that q great
baseball machine should win three
times in a row to maintain well co.
tahlished presidents. The Athletics
failed and Mack wanted to know why.
He found out. There was too much
prosperity, tc much gayety and too
many automobiles. Mack released Cy
Morgan, traded Derrick and suspended
Bender and 0ldring.
The Boston Red Sox. on the con-
tyary, have had high grades n deport.
Efnent this season. They have taken
good care Of Themselves and kept to-
gether In femarkable fashion
The champion club chaperoned BY
Jake Stahl has practically the same
lineup as in 1911, the PLAYERS are COM
paratiVely youngsters and the team az
a whole has been immune from acci-
cent all the season. lIcAleer came
Just in time to prevent the old man
egement from selling. trading or Civ
ing away a player that might have
broken up the winning combination.
Those who had picked the worlds
champions to repeat were confident
the Red Sox would slump, but the
break failed to come, On the contrary
The Speed Boys became more consist
ent as the season progressed. Heinie
Wagner at short and Larry Gardner at
third, Indispensable to the success OF
the club. refused to be budged from
their intrenched positions.
Wagner continued to block players
off second base, subiecting himself to
imminent danger, but always manag-
ing to gather himself from the thrill
ing mixups without losing the use OF
either of his valuable hands or legs.
White Sox Surprise.
The real surprise of the season hafe
been the White Sox and the Washing
ton Senators. These clubs have edged
into the first division in spite Of a
wholesale change in their respective
pergonnels. Both have been pennant
contenders this season and Callahan
al Gleason have performed the credit
Gble feat of putting the White Sox in
first division I'm spite Of the practical
elimination Of Scott, White ard LANCE
from the national pastime because Of
rhe umatism and elbow kinks and the
failure of every recruit pitcher with
the team at Waco
To say that the White Sox are fall
ures In 1912 is to assert an untruth
No unprejudiced critic familiar with
the clubs history in the last two sea-
sons would go on record with such an
assertion. The White Sox are no more
failures than are the Washington Gem
atCrs. The Chicago club, along with
has made more rapid
strides toward building up a remnant
winner than anv team considered out
If the race in the waning days Of the
fight for the bunting. It's resources
are more substantial than those Of the
Washington club for fresh start In
1913.
Clark Griffith made wholesale
changes in his club from the tepm o.
n;sffts travelling under the coIors Of
the national CAPITAL crew in 1911. Oniv
two regulars from last season. Milan
and Mcbride, exclusive of the batter
les were retained. With Johnson.
HCshegr and Groom pitching winning
tall a great portion of the season. Grit.
fifth caused one of the big jolts of the
season.
Manager Callahan has literally shot
to pieces the old lineup of DuffV of
1911. The old-timers of the team have
teen supDlanted with a club of young
sters and Comiskev's team ought to
be stronger and faster next season be-
cause it is composed fyoung play
ers.
There are many devoted followers
of the White Sox who believe the club
will be in the peunaBt race with its
present lineup intact in 1913 If the
pitching staff rounds into good eondi-
ton. If many changes are made the
have to wait again.
Kansas is swatting the grasshonpere