The Detroit times., 1914-09-15
Frank Chance Was a Wonder
With the Cubs and a Boob
With the Yankees
STALLINGS NEVER COULD
WIN UNTIL THIS YEAR
Hank O'Day is a Failure, Yet
His Club il Running Strong in
First Division
By RALPH l.. YoSKER.

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In the continual debate upon tn,
question of whether II is the willy
manager or the heayy-hitting. snappy
felding. faultless- pitching. and quick
thinking baseball club that wins pen
pents, the supporters of the theory
that IL is the team and not the man.
ager have secured a lot OF fine evil
dence In the recent events in organ
ICED baseball a..a ...
The affair between Frank Chance
and the owners Of the New York
American league club will give those
who believe IL Is the club that is the
biggest factor a chance to gloat. Frank
Chance earned the title Of Peerless
Leader while at. the head OF the Cubs.
which every baseball expert has rec
ognized as one of the greatest diamond
machines ever gotten together. Put
In charge of mediocre gang like the
Yankees. Chance could do nothing,
and SO fretted himself and everybody
else that he resigned before the expi-
ration of his three years contract,
which must still 20 another year to
be fulfilled.
Chance took the Yankees from Har-
ry Wolyerton, a man who had been
successful In managing minor
league club on the Pacific coast. VOL
yerton, trying to patch up the Yanks
here and there as they needed IL, but
trying to keep the team as whole
together. had failed to make the
Yanks winner Chance took them
over with the understanding that he
was going to clean house thoroughly.
This he did. Hardly a member OF
the New York team at present was
on the club when he took 1t, except
Birdie Cree, whom he let go and then
brought back from Baltimore again.
In spite OF this Chance has been un-
able TO win.
y No one can say that Chance doesn't
know baseball and that he isn't good
leader OF baseball players. His record
with the Cubs is ali that Is needed to
convince anybody that that Is not
true.
But he couldn't make q winner OF
New York because he didn't have the
hits In the New York bats. the stops
and throws In the New York arms.
the fast ones and curves In the New
York pitchers. and the brains In the
entire team.
For those who still stick to the the
Aory that the manager is the big fac
tor this much can be said Most OF
The "inside stun that Is unfavorable
70 Chance cannot be known. We
know only Of those players he has
secured and what they have done.
We know only what Chance has ac-
complished and what he has failed
1tn. We don't know how much he was
hAmpered by the New York business
management We don't know how
many players he wanted to buy but
couldn't get. We have only hint Of
Chances disgust with the Yankee
scouting system from what he says
Of Arthur Irwin.
No club can win with Irwin scout
Ing for it, said Chance.
The team theory" advocates can
/, point TO the present National league
race II 1t wants another good piece of
ovidence
George Stallings has stalled along
Z Tor years without any real success.
Now that he has q team OF real play
ers he Ia winning the National league
pennant from John McGraw, the won.
derful New York Giants boss. who IL
1oeing because MarQuard and Mathew
Don cant pitch the way they could
and he has no one to use In their
places.
Hank ODay is to be ousted from
the management OF the Chicago Cubs
- IN advertised failure. according tc
the present dope, and yet the Cubs
are running strong in the first divis
Ion.
It's fine to be a great manager. bu
+ its finer to have team that hits and
fields and pitches and thinks.