Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-16
By Sam Crane.

AN kANIII1o VI DdSSDdll I6dIilS
N should get into the lineup as
often as possible if they have
not lost their usefulness as active
players.
There is nothing more that any
manager can do to gain the re-
spect for mis- authority by his play
ers, and to get all out of his men
that is in them than to show them
that he knows more about the game
than they do and is g better player
than they.
1t is the example that leader of
a ball team sets to his players that
carries the weight, and If it is the
proper one it gives no chance for
Comeback"
One reason that Harry Wolver-
ton was not a success in getting
winning results with the Yankees
last season was because he failed
to demonstrate to his players that
he understood up to date baseball
as played by the big leaguers as
well as some of the men to whom
he gave orders.
1t is not human nature to be
dictated to by one who knows less
of the subject in hand than the
person ordered to do things that
the latter knows is wrong. And
the large majority of baseball play
ers are human, Notwithstanding
that Sc many of them have given
cause for arousing grave doubts as
to the substantially of that fact.
Lack of Team Work.
While the Yankees were posi-
bly, not DESTROYS, for various rea-
sons, to openly show their dissatis-
faction over Wolverton's methods
of management and direction of
plays, still the fact that they fln-
ished in last place and were a team
that ought to have been placed
much higher shows there was a
woeful lack of team work and the
requisite winning spirit that pro-
duce successful results.
Bench managers like McGraw and
Mack have the confidence of their
players not alone by their person
al characteristics, which, by the
way, are entirely different, but also
for the reason that they have shown
bv records that their systems pro-
duce champion teams.
With the belief firmly imbued in
players minds that they are being
led by champion managers who
have sole and unlimited authority,
such players, with all the conf
dence that victories are sure TO
bring, become champions them
selves.
Frank Chance has stated since he
signed to manage the Yankees that
he will play first base if his health
will allow of it. That is a COM
mendable ambition and a most SEN
sible conclusion for him to arrive
at His example on the field as an
active player will be of immense
good to the players of his team,
and is sure to increase their win
ming percentage to a standard that
will assure them finishing In the
first division. That result will
make the engagement OF Chance
as big a paying investment to own
er Frank Farrell as his liberality to
his new manager on the salary
question deservedly warrants. 1t is
to be sincerely hoped that Chance
will be enabled to follow out his
desire to play.
Some Managers Prefer the Bench.
Too many managers get sudden
ly the desire to give up playing.
when they are first appointed to
their new positions 1t may not be
self-importance that produces the
desire, but it looks very much like
it. To become a boss. after years
in the rank and file, and the privi-
lege of ordering people around is a
pinnacle of success that some few
players have been unable to stand
without compromising themselves