The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-30
few SUCCEED
AS MANAGERS
Mack, McGraw, Clarke, and
Chance Stand Out
Prominently.
PERCENTAGE IS SMALL
Baltimore Orioles Have Turned Out
More Winners Than Any
Other Club.
PERCENTAGE Is SMALL
ssc,uI [, The Washington Herald.

SPECIAL I, The Washington Herald.
- Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. eff baseball
players would look over the list of for
mer ball tossers who have made a sue
cess of managing major league teams.
they might not be so ambitious of taking
positions as team leaders.
The men who are successful year after
year can be counted upon the fingers
on one hand. They are Connie Mack,
John McGraw, Fred Clarke ana Frank
Chance. Others may be successful for
a time. but the quartet has gone along
for years at the top of their profession.
and in the case Of Chance there are
many who believe that his is a case
where the team made the manager
There have been some ball players
who have graduated into major league
magnates. but they are almost unknown
to the National League. and the list is
confined to Mack. OF the Athletics: Nc
Aleer. at Boston; Griffith. at Washington.
and Comiskey, at Chicago. Thus We
find seven men, not counting those that
may own q few shares Of stock In a
major league club. who have made, a
big success out of baseball. and of these
some have been in the game from twenty
to thirty years.
FerVeutast ~ suiuhs
The percentage of former players is
therefore very small compared with All
those who have striven to make good in
the majors at something other than NE
mere playing of the game. The chances
for success are unlimited. but there arc
mighty few men who have the ability to
make good when they are put in the po-
sition of managers, or else the competi-
ton Is too keen for them, or they are
not given the aid from their employers
that they should have.
Many players, though. shorten their
days on the diamond by their ambition
tc tackle the job of manager. Thus we
find. according to reports, that no less
than four members of the Chicago Cubs
aspired to succeed Frank Chance. These
were Evers, who landed the job; Joe
Tinker. who said he wouldn't play under
Evers, and got the managerial berth at
Cincinnati, and Outfielders Sheckard and
Leach. Safer, a youngster with the ex-
perience of only a couple of seasons. is
also reported to have hoped that the
managerial lightning would strike him.
Leach's ambition is several years old.
or since the time when Garry Hermann
tried 20 land him for the Reds.
Orioles arc Winners.
Only one team in the history of the
sport ever turned out a bunch OF sue
cessful managers. This was the old Bal
timore club. OF the wonderful collection
Ned II&nlon had there, Joe Keeiey has
made good in the international League,
after failures at Cincinnati and Boston:
Jennings piloted Detroit to three
pennant winners. and McGraw has led
four championship teams at New York.
The success of these men may have
aroused the ambition of the Cubs, who
probably figured that they could handle
a team OF ball tossers as well as any one
who played under Hanlon.
Not to have any players around him
with managerial bees in their bonnets,
Manager Evers has begun to cut loose
from those who hoped to succeed Chance
in Chicago. Tinker was the first. and
now Outfielder Sheckard and First Base
man Safer are on the market.
. There will be a big crop of new man.
ayers in the major leagues this year.
One of them may crowd Mack. Clarke.
McGraw or Chance OF the pedestal, but
the chances are that before the coming
season is one-half over several major
league clubs will be looking for new
team leaders.