The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-16
Connie Mack, Who
 Plans Years Ahead
Manager of Athletics Gets Stars For Nothing While Other
 Clubs Expend Fortunes

There are three methods employed in managing baseball team. The an-
 tics of John J. CMuggsy) McGraw o1 the New York Nationals, and Hughey Jennings, of Detroit, whose ''E-Yahs'' delight the fans of all eight cities of the American League, label them of the aggressive, fighting sort. Other managers who urge on their men, some
 times in not the most polite manner from the coaching lines, are: Bill Dah- len, Brooklyn; Harry Wolverton, New
 York; Clarke Griffith, Washington.
 They are what may be termed ''side- line'' leaders.
 Then, we have the manager who gives orders and at the same time helps
 to carry out the plan of battle by
 taking part in the game. They are, in, Phillies; Frank Chance, Chicago;
 Fred Clarke. Pittsburgh and John Kling, Boston. In the American Lea que, leaders of this type are: Jimmy Callahan, Chicago; Jack Stahl. Boston and Bobby Wallace, St. Louis. Of course, the aggressive spirit is not lacking among the members of this playing-manage set.
 Third, we come to a class that up to
 the present time has had only one suc-
 cessful member. As an educator, as descrier Of latent baseball talent in | 6
 that latent talent. as a suave and
 keen manager of that difficult entity,
 the baseball player, Cornelius McGilli- cuddy, colloquially known to the youth
 of the great American Republic as
 Connie Mack, knows no equal. Regula-
 tion baseball attire is not part of the equipment of MT. Mack. His strategy is voiced from beneath the players Fbench and comes from the throat Of a citizen-garbcd tactician.
 MT. Mack is a tall, lean, lank, long fingered, long-footed, suave, gentle, well-mannered man of about fifty sum-
 mers. He looks about thirty-five
 years old. His black hair is only very
 slightly tinged with gray. He speaks
 with a round Irish accent, with. much
 earnestness and with grave delibera- tion- He looks more like college
 professor than a leader of athletes. MT. Mack is man of gentle ways. He is polite, painstaking, proper. When you have talked with him and have
 done with him you know that you have been talking with a gentleman, and. in his way, a scholar. Famed for his wisdom, he does not preach
 it. He speaks and acts with ample directness.
 To good baseball men, MT. Mack is deferential. He is enthusiastic in eu- logy of John McGraw. = He thinks that Ed Hanlon, under whom he play ed in Pittsburgh, in the 'nineties, is a
 great baseball man. In his estimate 1 of Connie. Mack he is modest. Great from many angles, Hanlon, McGiaw, Clarke and Jennings lack
 one quality which makes Mack a really brilliant allaround manager. They cannot develop latent talent in the players as Mack can develop it. No
 man in baseball ever nas developed la tent talent as Mack has. This marks i'm Q pedagogue.
 Mack is a baseball schoolmaster. He
 can get blood out of what other man. a"ers think is cabbage. Connie is g bright man. He is also hard work ing man. That is most Of it. He suc- i ceeds because he works hard. A man
 may have vast ability and be fail ure because most geniuses will not work. A man may work hard yet fail through lack of ability. Mack has the ability. He works hard. There fore. you have the true success, g worker
 In 1908 it again devolved upon Con. nie to build up a. team that could keep up in the race and arouse the interest
 of the home fans. It was in the pre-
 ceding year that the 1905 pennant-win- ming team began to Ego back" When it confronted the astute leader to whip a new team into shape he did not fal- ter, but simply said: 'NThe lots are full o1 good ball players"
 His pitching staff was the only wing of the Mack machine in 1909 that was credited with having any class. With the exception of Harry Davis, at first, Connie had an entire infield that nev-
 CT played in the big league before and two of them Collins and Barry, were just out of college. This bush" lea gue team, as the critics labeled it at the beginning of the 1909 season. made