The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-03-04
MANAGERIAL JOB
SHOWS ON EVERS
Trojan Takes Responsible.
ties to Heart and Work
Has Unsteadied Nerves.
lBy Irving

Tampa, Fla, March 4.-Don't ina.
CINE that managing d big league ball
club is an easy task. Likewise don't
think that John Evers' initial flyer
into the ranks of pilots is a Joy ride"
for the little sec~ond-sacker. 1t is my.
thing but that, and to know that the.
Cub leader is already worrying ovcl
his job n need only to take a 5000
look at him and note the change tina,
has come over him since the Cubs
went n training here a bit less than
two weeks ago.
Evers has actually aged during the
time spent here. The lines in his face
have deepened and it is evident that
he is finding the burden of a big
league ball club a little more than he
reckoned with before he took the job
vacated by the former leader. Not
only has the ball club itself been a
nightmare to the Trojan for the last
fact that he is being PANIED more OF
less by scribes who are peeved by
Murphy's BUSTING of Chance and who
are vesting their feelings on the sue
cessor Of the big Californian.
Work Shows on Trojan.
All this works on the mind OF Evers,
who even as a player was high-strunc
end sensitive. With the added re-
sponsibilities he is irritable. nervous
and lacking in patience. He has shown
this by his actions on the field when
as quickly as he wished. Not that
Evers wishes to be a ~stricter disci-
p]inarian than his predecessor, but
nature did not endow him with the
disposition Of a natural leader, hence
his tendency to crab" on the slight.
est pretense.
That the Evers of today is a chang.
06 man ny,or tho E>.o,, e -. -
Is evident to the players as we'll as the
war scribes. and some OF the mep
have even remarked about happening,
on the ball field in which Evers has
taken them to task for little things
mat IN years before passed unnoticed.
one OF the Cubs. n not a new one.
sald that unless Evers changes a great
zeal now and April 10 he
will be fired out of a game and sus-
pended by the second day of the sea.
son. Ihls wasn't said in a Joking
way, but because the player realizes
just Where the manager stands.
Athletes Work Hard.
admitting that Evers has worked
nlmself into a dangerous condition
there is still the possibility Of his
"tontng down between now and tho
time the bell rings. 1t may be tina:
the excitement and Worry attendant
9SSSAt6 tHc squad 10 WORKING
right on the southern drill grounds
have caused it. but his is hardly like.
~. as the men have shown an IN.
usual Willingness to work their heads
OF and Evers has had nothing to dc
but direct the training. and for the
mos part the athletes have done The
oif1erent things Of their own accord.
n ENers took the lob last fat
Immediately after Chance and Nurnhv
mad opened their war there vac a
lot OF guesswork as to whether he
would be able to stand the strain @,
a season at the helm of a club thai
would most likely be in the thick al
a n~erve-racking pennant fight. Opin.
lons varied. hut the majority were free
70 admit thai the Trojan would hrf.al
GOWN before he had gon half way
through the campaign. It is a cinch
ina John is not making a very Rood
start, but he may fool us all nv hrac.
ing up and weathering the storm once
e becomes accustomed TO the d1ttes
he has
liVerS Has Done His Best.
vi course. no is goin~ to wish
any bad luck on the little fellow Ch;.
cago fans are undoubtedly ranked
over the Chance episode, hut the acts
OF Murphy should not be charge -,
against his manager. Eyers has ~
ways done his best for the C,hicapc