Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-11-23
HOODOO FOLLOWS
BOSTON MANAGERS
Carrigan Must Steer Clear OF
ii to Avoid Fate OF
Collins and Stahl
THEIR JOY WAS
SHORT-LIVED

Will Bill Carrigan, the third Red
Sox manager to pilot a Hub team into
Worlds Championship, be able to
shake the hoodoo which overlook his
two predecessors. Jimmy Collins and
Jake Garland Stahl? The triumphs
wrested from the National League
brought Jim and Jake but fleeting 10y.
We trust Holy Cross William is
not superstitiOus, or the history of
Collins and Stahl may cause Bill to
wish that he had remained just a
private in the ranks, instead Of boss
ing the finest ball club in balloon.
Precedent is a bad thing in Boston.
No Boston club ever lost a Worlds
Championship.
Boston's first Worlds Championship
combination was commanded by
Jimmy Collins in 1903 and won the
big series after one Of the gamest
fights in Worlds Series warfare. The
Red SOx won the first game, after
which Pittsburgh won three straight.
However, Collins's band would not be
denied, and they took the next four,
winning the series, five games to three.
The series in 1903 was arranged as a
nine-game affair, instead Of the best
out of seven, which has been the uni
form rule since the National Commits
sion took charge OF the games in
1905.
Jimmy Collins repeated in 1904, his
BOstons winning the American League
pennant on the last day of the sea-
son at the old American League Park
on the hilltop. when Jack Chesbro
made his celebrated wild pitch. The
Giants, champions of the National
League in 1904. refused to meet the
tough Boston combination. and the
SoX claimed the title by default.
BY this time Collins's friends be
gan to predict that, Collins would
prove as famous a manager as he was
a thirdbaseman, and Jim was the
greatest third sacker that ever fielded
a grOunder. bar none. Yes, sir. Jim
my was regarded as some pumpkins
as q manager. II was before the
days that Mack, McGraw and Chance
had run OF their string of pennants,
aud many fans. believed that Jim was
Just in a class by himself as a held
tactican.
But with Collins it seemed that the
tenn made the manager, not the
manager the team, though jim did
help to wean a good bunch OF those
old SOx stars from the National
League in the Standardization war
when Gear Ban the Bombastic was
the insurgent.
In 1905 something went wrong in
the Boston camp, and the boys
couldn't win the way they did. They
,tumbled from first TO fourth. but the
big smash came in 1906. when the
Boston bunch caved in completely
and all the kings horses and all the
kings men couldn't put them together
again.
The Sox fell to a bad last, finishing
the season with only 40 victories and
105 defeats. one of the lowest per-
centages ever put together in the
American League. All sorts of hor-
rible things happened to Boston that
year, and they set an A. l.. losing rec
ord by being bumped across the bean
i'm twenty straight games.
Collins naturally received much of
the blame for this utter collapse OF
a once great team. He was charged
with carelessness and Indifference
and that he did not have the
managerial intuition to know that his
regulars were slipping. and to start
repairing his machine before the bis
smash came.
Collins was denoted back to the
ranks and in midseason he was traded
TO the Athletics for Jack knight, our
old friend Of the Hilltop days
Jimmy's days as player we're mum
bered however. and though he almost