Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-02-25
c.. H, ROWLAND IS
MYSTERY man"
New Manager Of White Sox
an Unknown Quantity.
COMES FROM MINOR LEAGUE
He Failed as a Player, but Has Been
Successful Handling Team-ls a
Developer Of Players" of the Type
Of Fielder Jones-He Also Has Abil-
ity to Get Runs With Few Hits.

ity to Get Runs With Few Hits.
Clarence II. Rowland, the new man
ager of the Chicago White Sox, is the
mystery man. Of baseball. He was
the manager Of the Peoria team Of the
Three Eye league last season. and
there was much surprise when it was
announced that he had superseded the
efficient. polished and popular Jimmy
Callahan. had been lifted over the head
o? the experienced veteran Kid Glea-
son and had crowded cut several eX-
%pcrienced possibilities and been placed
in charge of the White Sox for 1915,
"Who is Rowland? What has he
done: Where did he play ball: Did
he ever have a big league record?
How can he get away with big league
stuff on a minor league education?"
hurled from all sides.
Owner Comiskey's only explanation
of the riddle is that Rowland is Il de
veloper of players" the type OF man
ager the White SoX club has not known
since Fielder Jones left the club.
Connie Walsh of St. Louis, manager
of the Danville Three Eye league club.
who is now angling to succeed to Row
lands 1914 job as manager OF Peoria.
throws some interesting side lights on
the man who crowded him out OF the
pennant last year in Il nose finish and
about whose big league finish there is
so much speculation. According to
Walsh, Rowland is a composite Of
Fielder Jones, Connie Mack and George
Stallings, the wise owl. the fox and
the wolf combined.
After listening TO Walsh You gather
III, among other things. a few ideas
about Rowland like these:
He's a regular guy. His cigars are
good.
His address is ~pleasant--at least
those who live there Dubuque, think
AS to players, his preferences run to
those noted for soft drinks and hard
sense.
But he isn't teetotal. He allows his
players to moisten their mustaches
now and then. q. B.-He doesn't like
mustaches.l
He can destroy more third base grass
in Il given time than IL hight of lucuSts
or Hugh Jennings.
He discovered Rollie Daringer. but
nobody holds it against him.
Beside him George Stallings seems
a f1owery fiatterer. in the matter of
goat getting.
He never rides his men in public,
but be uses Il quirt and Mexican bit
in clubhouse workouts.
He never played for Il major league
club-which seems to be the major
leagues loss, not his.
He never managed better than a
class Il team.
Rowland is a remarkable man. along
Fielder Jones lines" says Walsh. He
gets results out of poor stuff and weak
run getters. | think he will score more
runs with fewer hits and worse players
than even Fielder Jones once did.
He's a teacher. He shapes 'em up
himself, like Mack. He has turned out
a lot of good players, He has taken u
lot of cheap teams and run them into
good positions, but he has never held
a berth OF more than class B impor-
lance. l have known a lot Of baseball
men, but Rowland seems to have all
the requirements
Rowland is thirty-siX years old He
was born at Plattesville. Wis, but re-
moved to Dubuque, Ia, with his par
ents when Il small tot 1t was at Du-
buque. the home of Ted Sullivan and
the late Tom Lotus, that young Row
land first broke into the game.
When he was in knickerbockers
Comiskey was earning his early fame
as a ball player as a member OF the
Dubuque team. Clarence was a fairly
good catcher when a kid, and he play
ed good semi-pro ball about Dubuque.
but he was never really heavy enough
for active play in the professional
ranks. He showed merit as a manager
and handler OF men, however, and
when Dubuque needed a manager for
her Three-Eye league club back in 1907
Rowland was called upon to serve.
He was then an employee Of the late
Tom LOTUS. and LOTUS nursed him
faithfully in the knowledge OF the
game.
Rowland her went to Winnipeg,
where he stayed one season. going to
the Aberdeen club of the Western Can
ada league in 1909. In 1912 he assum-
ed charge Of the Jacksonville (Ill.) club
of the Northern association. and when
that league disbanded in midseason
Rowland returned to Dubuque. where
he again assumed the reins as manager
and part owner Of the Hustlers.