Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-21
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We have Just finished digesting an
article written by Connie Mack, set
ting forth his reasons for breaking up
the greatest team baseball boosted OF
in msny a year. Either Mack, within
the next two years. will prove to the
world he is the greatest developer OF
young talent and the cleverest man.
ager in the history of the game, or he
will convince us he has been chasing
dreams and embracing shadows. We
always have classed him as sound,
sober-thinking individual, utterly in
capable to be unruffied, no matter
what the crisis or occasion. Yet in
perusing some of his 'talibi" it leads
to the thought Connie is dwelling in
ethereal heights, where wish is father
of thought and desire the driving
force which sweeps barriers aside
with slight effort. The exquisite mimi
cry employed in describing his pres
ent predicament will induce the Phila-
delphia fans to bear with him In pa
thence during what he is pleased to
term his reconstruction period. Los
ing games are to the fan as dose
to SO much cascarilla, and following
the fortunes of a losing team through
the season, from start 10 finish, re-
quires a fortitude not possessed by
the average bleacherite.
Yet Connie holds out the solace for
the future to his following in the state
ment: Three separate machines have
! built up, and i will have another in
two years greater than the one have
just broke up." What a wealth of
promise in dem WORLDS can 1t all
be fulfilled? If so. the Quaker fan can
well afford to wait for his inning of
JOY and recompense when Mack's mil
lennium arrives.
Then Mack goes on to say: "The
Federal league wrecked my club He
does not mean the Gilmorites drove
a successful wedge into his victorious
ranks by taking players from him or
inducing them to jump their contracts.
The players the Feds secured from
the Athletics had their unconditional
releases lPlank and Bender, for in
stance), and we're free to cast their
allegiance with whom they pleased.
His team was not riddled by deser-
tons, On the other hand. he says:
when the Federal league came
along with its ridiculous and out-of-all-
offers of salaries ii com
pletely changed the spirit of my play
ers, and from that moment they be-
came useless to me as cogs Of win
ming machine. Previous to that time
they thought only of victories, after
that they forgot the game; their
minds were solely concentrated on the
money they could command. That's
why / am better of without them,
even though some of them were the
greatest stars In baseball, they we're
useless to me because their winning
value as winning combination was
lost"
We dare say, without fear of refuta-
ton, no other manager in the game,
nor any other ever connected with the
great national pastime, could have
up courage enough to
release an Eddie Collins, a Jack
Barry, and now the contemplated
transfer of Wallie Schang to the
New, Yankees, to say nothing about
keeping "Home-run" Baker out of
the game. No other could have
his fans after action of this sort. Yet
Mack did it-and what's more, is con-
Iident he can rebuild the team and
place 1t on the same strong war foot
nc as If old