Evening journal., 1915-04-21
Il States furnish
MAJORS MANAGERS
Ohio, With Five Big LeaguerS
Leads and Bay State
Ranks Second
MACK is THE
SENIOR BOSS

dozen states furnish the manag-
ers TO the twenty-four major league
clubs, Ohio taking the lead by supply
ing five leaders who may be peerless
or otherwise. The Buckeye State
ranks in the van in this respect be-
cause Roger Patrick Bresnahan of the
Cubs. after having been accused for
many years of having been born in
ireland. issued denial of this charge
and reported that the scene OF his
birthplace was in Toledo.
The other big league bosses who
first saw tho light of day in Ohio are
Miller Higgins of the Cards. Lee Ma
gee of the Tiptops. Branch Hickey OF
the Browns and Larry Schlafy of the
Buffeds. Huggins and Magee are ma
tives of Cincinnati, Rickey of Lucas
willie and Schlafy of Beach City
If Bresnahan had stuck to his early
declaration that he was from the En-
7 erald Isle. there would have been a
triple tic between Massachusetts.
] PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio for the honor
of being the States that supplied the
bir league clubs with the greatest
J number of pilots. Four commanders
hail from the Bay state, four from
the keystone State. The managers
born in Massachusetts, are Connie
Mack. Wnbert Robinson. Bill Dono-
van and Pat Moran; those born in
! PENNSYLVANIA, Hugh Jennings. otto
Knabe. Fielder Jones and Bill Phil
lips.
Mack has made Brookheld famous
and Hudson, Lawrence and Fitchbure
have been we'll advertised as having
been the birthplaces of Robinson Don
ovan and Moran. The two last-nameo
new major. league bosses this year
were born in 1876. and PhiladelphianS
and New Workers both hope they vii
be able to install some of the spirit
Of that year into the Phils and Hanks
The Federal Leaguers run TO Penn
sylvania in their choices or comman
ders. since Fielder Jones OF the Slou'
feds was born in Shinglehouse Ga new
nickname for that team might be th'
roofers), Otto Knabe of the Terrapini
in Carrick and Bill Phillips of thu
Newarks in Allenport. "Allenpor
r Bill" was long a nickname Of Phillips
when he was earning his bread ant
butter from organized ball Hugh Jen
nings was born in Pittston.
Two major league leaders are New
Workers and two Missourians. Thl
, Empire Staters are John McGraw, borI
in TruXton, and Joe Birmingham. bOrl
in Elmira The men from the Show
Me State are George StOvall of tn
Klawfeds and Clark Griffith of tn
Senators. Griff was once connecte'
with a Missouri team. Old Romal
Comiskey. canning him on the Brown
in 1891. the year the National Leagu
and the American Association wer
having their scrap.
A Down Easter who is a big leagu
+ leader is Bill Carrigan of the Red SoA
n His birthplace was Lewiston. Me
= Maryland is represented in the man
, agerial ranks by Charley Herzog. VIII
first saw the light of day in Baltimore
The South's contribution to the bri
gade of bosses are George Tweed
Stallings. the Miracle Man of tn
, Braves. an Augusta. Ga. product, an
!, Ennis T. Oakes of the Pittsburgh Rel
!. els. who halls from Homer. La
u All the other commanders are West
-Platteville Wis. laying clair
: to Clarence Henry Rowland of tn
J. White Sox; Muskoda. Kan, TO 10
Tinker of the Chicago Whales. an
Des Moines. Ia. to Fred Clarke of th
Pirates.
= Two big league shippers were Dor
= on the alleged hoodoo date-the thii
r teenth. Each has been lucky in his bi
league connections. since FieldC