The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-08
FANS WILL WATCH WORK Of NEW
PILOTS WITH MARKED INTEREST
Season Of 1912 May Settle Question of What Preliminary
Training is Best to Develop Careful
Managers.

New York. April s.-Baseball fans
will get a fine opportunity this year to
decide the question Of what prelim-
mary training is best calculated to de-
velop a successful manager. Argu-
ment on the subject his been worn
threadbare and nearly every enthusi-
asst still possesses the same idea that
he had at the beginning. He believes
that a catcher has the best chance for
assimilating baseball knowledge. or
that a first baseman. an infielder, out
fielder or pitcher is best favored by
opportunity.
Ola ball PLAYERS will tell you that it
Is the man rather than the training
upon which the development Of a
manager depends. They will say that
Connie Mack would have made 4 great
manager If he had played the inficld
instead of catching in his younger
days. and that McGraw would be just
as great II he had been a backstop
instead of an inf1elder. and so on
through the whole list Of successful
leaders. But nevertheless the fans
have their opinions and they like to
take a fling at argument every once in
a while. They most assuredly will
have a chance this year.
Seven New Leaders.
The 1912 fan will watch the ~vicissi-
tudes of seven teams under new lead
els. 4ue SdpdClSleS Ill WHICH THESE
men worked in 1911 and their new
charges are:
Manager-Clark Griffith. Washing
o Americans.
Field Captain-Iiarry Davis. Cleve-
land Americans.
Umpire-Hank O'Day, Cincinnati
Nationals.
First Baseman-Jake Stahl. Boston
Americans.
Third ISo recommendation yEn1H-ortAn
New York Americans.
Outfielder-Jimmy Callahan, Chica-
so Americans.
Catcher-Johnny King. Boston Ma
tionals.
OF these Clark Griffith has had the
most extensive experience as a man
ager. although Stahl and Callahan al
so have had big league managerial eX-
leriencc. In his best year as a pitch
er, when he had a winning percentage
of ia, Griffith piloted the Chicago
White o into the American League
championship of 1901. lie was at the
helm of the White SoX also the fol-
lowing year, n in 1903 took charge
of the New York ankecs. remaining
when he went to Cincinnati TO lead
the Reds of the National lYeague.
During his tenure of Office at Cincin-
natl he was unable to make the team
In n year more tina a contender.
but he has been said to have been he
set by hard luck throughout his career
in the Ohio city. His departure from
pleasure with his work on the part Of
the ownership of the team. however,
hut because of a more lucrative offer
by the Washington association.
Griffith has earned for himself dur
ing his career the sobriquet of the old
fox and he is generally conceded to
be about as we'll posted on all-around
country. His material at Washington
is not of the best except in a few
spots. but 1t is believed he may make
his team a genuine contender for the
lower end of the first division.
Callahan's Career Interesting.
Jimmy Callahan's baseball life has
been an interesting n and he takes
hold of the White SoX under interest
ing conditions. He succeeded Griffith
in the management of the Chicago
American league team in 1908. but
quit in disgust in 1904 when Fielder
Jones was raised over him and given
the leaders job. Callahan then ex-
rerimented in outlaw baseball. organ
izing the Logan Squares in Chicago
and making what is said to be a small
fortune by his Independent operations.
WHEN u iietiC oNSA a SSdt a5O Ic ar
nounccd that he wanted to "be good"
again and return to the fold Of or
ganized baseball with the White Sox,
very few believed that he had any
chance for reinstatement. Yet that is
what occurred. and Jeems played
great ball all last year in the outtield.
Hugh Duffy's managing Of the team
did not suit Owner Comiskey and CAL
lanan announced himself as a candi-
date for the job along with Third
Baseman Harry Lord. Callahan was