The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
C. H. ROWLAND IS
A"MYSTERY MAN"
New Manager Of White SOx
an Unknown Quantity.
COMES FROM MINOR LEAGUE

tie 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- 7
ity to Get Runs With Few HITS.
Clarence II. Rowland, the new man .
aeer 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announced that lie had superseded the !
efficient, polished and popular Jimmy
Callahan, had been lifted over the head
OF the experienced veteran Kid Glea-
son and had crowded out 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
lie ever have Il big league record?
How can he get away with big league
stun on a minor league education!'
ana a thousand similar questions were
hurled from all sides.
Owner Comiskey'S only explanation
of the riddle is that Rowland is de
yelOper OF players the type of man
aver 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
l.. A.
pcnuaut last year in n nose finish and
about whose big league finish there is
50 much speculation According to
Walsh. Rowland is Il composite OF
Fielder Jones Connie Mack and George
Stallngs. the wise owl, the fox and
tie wolf combined.
After listening to Walsh you gather
in, among other things, 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
so.
As to players, his preferences run to
those noted for soft drinks and hard
sense.
But he isn't tectotal. lie allows his
players tn emoisten their muStaches
now ana then ~. T.. He doesn't ike
mustachcSl
lie can destroy more third base grass
in given time than a hight OF lncusts
or Hugh Jennings.
lie discovered Roilic Darinecr. but
nobody holds it against him.
Reside him George StalIings seems
a iiowcry hattrrcr. in the matter OF
goat getting.
lie never rides his men in public
but nc uses Il quirt and Mexicah bit
in clubhouse workouts
He never played for a major league
club-Which seems to be the major
leagues loss, not his
lie never MANAGED better than Il
class Il team
Rowland is 4 remarkable man. along
Fielder Jones lines. says Walsh. III.
gets results out of poor stun and veal
run getters. | think he will score moro
runs with fewer hits and worse player,
than even Fielder Jones once did
He's q teacher. lie shapes en- nj
himself, like Mack. He has turned on
a lot Of good players. lie has taken ;
good positions. but he has never hel(
berth of more than class Il impor
lance. | have known Il lot of baseball
men. but Rowland seems to have al
the requirements
Rowland is thirty-SiX years old. III
was born ut P!attesyille, Wis, but re
moved TO Dubuque. Ia. with his par
ents when a small tot 1t was ut Du
buquc. the home of Ted Sullivan an,
the late Tom LOTUS. that young Row
land first broke into the game.
When he was in knickerbocker
COmiSkey was earning his early fam
as a bah player as a member of tn
Dubuque team. Clarence was fairl
good catcher when n kid, and he play
ed good semipro bail about Dubuqu,
but he was never really heavy enOug
Tor active play in the profession;
ranks. He showed merit as a manage
and handler of men. however. an
when Dubuque needed a manager f.
her Three-Eye league club back in 19C
Rowland was called upon TO serv
He was then an employee OF the la
Tom LOTUS, and LOTUS nurSed hi
faithfully in the knowledge of Il
game.
Rowland then went to Winnipe
where he stayed one season. going
the Aberdeen club of the Western Ca
ada league in 1909. In 1912 he asSuI
ed charge of the Jacksonville Qll) eli
or the Northern association, and VIII,
that league disbanded in midseas,
Rowland returned to Dubuque whe
he again assumed the reins as manag
and part owner of the Hustlers