Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-02
STALLINGS AND MACK OPPOSITES Methods of Two Great Base ball Leaders Are Entirely
 Different.
 -EE, ONE EASY; OTHER NOT Both Secure Excellent Results. But Mack Leads His Men While Stallings Drives Them
 Hard.
7FE1 ONE EASY; OTHER NOT
tBy Frank c. Menko.)

(By Frank G. MenkoD
 What strange contrast is furn- ished by a comparison of Connie Mack and George Sailing. the two men who will lead the rival teams into battle for the highest honors in baseball. How different are their ten peraments, their ways and tEeir methods.
 Connie Mack, gentle, sot voiced end fatherly in his attitude toward his players, never has been known to speak an unkind word to them q or off the bali field. Stalling, human dynamo, with {, tongue like a lash rarely permits his m9n to go thr )ush game without cussins them to the full limit of his wonderful vocabu- lary.
 Stalline has the thetry that 1n,y by driving his players every moment during the game are results accomp- lished. From the momen that play ball" rings across the field until tie last man is out in the ninth, Sta!ling continues to apply the lash. When on the field, every error that Che of his players makes that is of an h. eXcusabla nature brings 4ortll a caus- tic and immediate renrimanl from tue great leader of the Boston team.
 Stallings applies his >eT5ial abuse to stars and medicre playe.s alike, He spares none. And tie strangest part of it all. Stallings abuse of his players never has cause, then 10 t'el any bitterness toward hii fer when the game is over StallinSs changes front. He is the pal, the broth ar ol each of his players.
 Stallings never rebukes a player twice for the same error. He does2 dig into the past doesn't bring up old scores. When he has Darned d player once for some blund'r it's ne end of it. Stallings has spoken his piece-i.as relieved bis feelings ana the incident is closed.
 Every man on the Bofion club aas come to love Stallings. and iot one of inc men on the whole team has cscaned a tongue flashing from stall ings-not one has escapc' i 'a'' down: coucned in sco" oh'ns lahs- uage.
 The Boston players understand .stallings. They know ;hat hls con duct toward them on ike ball f'elc is caused only through his .fehzico ambition to win. They haFc ''oEle U take his rebuke without eNlcricac'Hs any hitterness of feeling tn7rc"f'er;
 Stalling is a driver-even haroel driver than McGraw wno Es'a 'he dr;vino honors until this yea. stall ings is after his men every :nhet , Nothing escapes his eye. If one ol hi, men makes "bone' play o'a.' ;nrs meets him as he approaches tne bench and that player IS ce:sa'i '' aet "his" without delay. n,
 Rut Stallings is just as ready "''' his praise for a good play as ne N with abuse for bad one. 1T one '' lie men makes brilliant catc' ol tbrow ar smashes out long mt 'ha aids the Braves chances for vlc'ory cta,lings rushes out from li'e De''e' to meet him as he comes ill ana "ei' comes him with all the enthusiasm II his system. 4 al, limos M.ck in contrast, is at all tlmes tho most inconspicuous man on 'ii' Athletics bench. He is ever cam ah' oniet No matter how great d pun dor his players may have made, Il, matter how poorly they play Macf ,s never has a word of cohue,hia.lo. Ana when one or another Of HIS inei ,na,,o some brilliant play, Macks feei ;oa, never run riot. He may gree the n,aver with smile, apart oh .n' hac,, or a "Fine work, boy put tAa usually is the extent Of HIS slea.ns oat e7 No Athletic players ever are sreeas' with a few bear hugs, a dozen terri,'' IT., s,aa. nm the back and lehgth' sneech speech of praise as are n .n' pr,ves when they do some siea work. ookf;e,d Mass in 1862. He began his basepaii ua ,., reer with the Meridien, conn. clu' m ;n 1884 He played with Hartiol' Conn in 1885 and 1886. with was, uo ,naton in 1ss7,1sSS. and 1889 and witl ,ne n..e,o,o in 190. From 1891 to ls6 n -"auad with pittsburgh. banging Una sl',h from August 1894 to 1896. fron 1sa7 to 1909 he managed the NH" a U. u ,.oo o,,h in the Western league. Il l @ ,oo, he went to philadelphia an' 1 arsan,zed ars the Athletics. He has Dee'