The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-22
IANSON WONDERFUL
 PLAYER BUT FELL DOWN AS MANAGER

f. Baseball enthusiasts of the gOou old days" type, look upon Adrian C. Anson, manager and captain of the famous. old Chicago. White Stockings, as the greatest manager of bygone days. He was by far the most spec tacu1ar figure of his time, a wonder fu1 player, an inspiring leader, man who had the advancement and in egrity of baseball at heart
 Yet to say that, because he was great ball player and explained one of the most remarkable teams in his tory, he was the superior of any other leader of his time is snap Judg- ment, accordinfg to J. c. KOfed of Philadelphia, who regards Charles A. Comiskey, the "OId Rornan''S and present owner of the Chicago Ameri- can League team. the peer of the old time leaders.
 In defending the right of Comiskey to the Shonors invariably ascribed to Anson, Kofed has the following to say:
 When the National League was formed and the late A. G. Spalding induced Anson to leave the Philadel- phia Athletics and manage the Chi cago White Stockings powerful team had already been secured for Chicago. Spi1ding, White, Barnes and McVey, Bostons Big Four, and Glen Hines. Peters. and others were in the Windy City. When Anson took the lead the team was ready for him.
 'sThe game then was in it's forna- tive stage, and such players as these needed little direction on actual plays. In fact, Anson was excluded from the signal plays of the Stockings great inf1eld, Burns Pfeffer and William son executing them without the aid of their leader.
 Those giants overwhelmed their opponents by their massive frames and great regulations even before the e-%e T011vi they actually played in full dress suits. stiff white shirts and all. which may give an idea of how contemptu- ous1y they regarded their opponents.
 a'As a player Anson had few peers. As a man, too, there are few who can meet the standardshe has set for him self. But as. manager? Without even considering his failure in New York under the Freedman regime, it is hard to see where he can. be ad- judged the best major league pilot of his day. When his great players :, could no longer accomplish miracles on the field, Anson was involved in the general ruin- From 1892~to 1927 the chicagoans were never in the running. Aggr essively Anson was a wonder, constructively a failure.
 '"The real Nestor of baseball was Harry Wright, a man to whom sthe game owes more than it ever can pay Ht was Wright who organized the first
 
 hngs of Cincinnati. He was the first anan to win six major league cham kpionships aside from the two nationa Hit1es he won with his Red Stockings i'm matter of championships won, An. son and Wright stands alone among the managers of the past. Compare them with Franke Se1ee as team makers and their lustre is consider ably odimmed. Selee built champion ship squads in Boston, and then h. went to Chicago, where he gathered the men with whom Frank Chance won so much glory. Yet Selee, tc m. mind, was not as great a leader al either Anson or Wright.
 When Chance took over tn, Yankees he had no Evers. Thinkers stayed in the cellar where it hat been before the husky Californian came to the metropolis. As f1elde under a Mack or Comiskey, Chanc, would have had no equal, but, as builder of teams he lacked the pene tration and clirvoyant power tha some managers possess.
 ttAs a business man Jim Mutrie O the old Giants was without a peer il baseball annals. As a manager Nut pennants during his nine years sta, in New York.
 ::During 1892 and 1893 the Balti na1re Orioles were the joke of the Ma tiona1 League. The following season with one of the greatest teams tn game has ever known, they forge ahead and then captured three con secutive pennants. Ned Han1on wa the manager, and with such brain men as McGraw, Jennings, Robinson Kee1er and the rest to execute his or ders and utilize their own wonderfu baseball brains, he was successful When he lost these men, like Ansor he failed to bring together anothe band with serious pennant inten fions."