The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23
WHBERT ROBINSON 4 CREDIT TO
HIS SCHOOLING UNDER ED HANLON
Catcher Of Old Orioles Now
Proving His Worth at Head
Of Brooklyn's Dodgers.
DOESN'T BELIEVE IN
ABUSING HIS PLAYERS
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baseball clubs are SUNG. arises some
venerable cha,npion 10 defend the
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aeerial worm " discussed the nafne OF
ED Hanlon is not left in the back
ground For uan,on wss prca,. ma Of
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leader and n team developer. His worth
has been reflected and IL being reflected
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young players mat nc schooied INTO Inc
highest contributions Of stardom.
Tho ,rs.,os, M yI.,,o,., Or,o,e.
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years ago In major league baseball
| Three young men who helped lian,on
to fame and fortune. grown gray I'm
harness. in their turn are n~ghtlng-and
successfully. too--for those principles
and traditions of the old laws as appl,ed
to modern art OF the diamond. The
managerial worth OF John J. McGraw
and Hughie Jennings needs no indorsc-
ment here. There is another Of the old
, o ,a .uheam'. "nHn u...,oreu "nUI, ~,
seems about due to take rank with his
fellow players OF the long ago. He In
Wilbcrt Robinson. MANAGER of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
To know Uncle Robbie. as he is
termed anectionatcly by his friends
and his friends are lcgion-is to love
hin. There never was a more honor
able nor a more luvable good fellow
since the world began. lie In "a soul of
hearty good will toward all men. II
would be impossible to conceive Of Will
bert Robinson having an enemy.
'"'"ss Ar" D'"ee~"s Now
There were times I'm the history Of
baseball when Wllbert Rohinson's ana
bility. Kindness md charm nigh, no,
have carried him very far along the
road of .uces. in team lcadersb,p There
were Jays OF ruudyisr in the game
when kindness by tho pi,v,np fraterni,v
was regarded ns AN infnIIibIe sign 81
weakness. PLAYERS had TO no bnllied
and clustered into hustlirg Rut times
have changed within tho las, decade
The old sni,trc has viven p,ace % youth
of in,el,ixence ana rean.rncn, 70 which
the yoad of inyective Ia displc,sipp TN
college plsyer has di.pl,ccd tho truck
driver in the esteem of fandom And In
the new school of gentlemen. as reprc.
sen,ed on the hall fcId tho ~swauve,,nr
outlying. swearing team leader, has been
forced to take the cunt.
Huehie Jenninys w.s tho crs, graz,
examine Of VIVA, could no done throush
,oy.l good fellov shin blindness ana In
snira,ion ~ mo hover svs,cu ue ,rad,
~ the De,roi, Tigers. hah,tusI tailenders
IT. the American League a real remnant
trust. one that won ,hrer straight men,
nants for him Pat Moran came later
In hLs trs, ye,r no gave ,he phiia.
dennis, National League roo,ers their
Airs, nennan,-the,r only aar after more
,han ,~h,rtytye,rs vain roofing
v.,,har, Doh,nson &C. n,..o...a n, a..
s-es, personal charm M his bosom friend
and old fellow player Huyhie Jennings.
He IN possessed OF as much tact and as
Ane a knowledge OF inside baseball as
fither Hugh or Pat Moran. or any Other
man for th., matter. He has bull, IN
IN .hree wears from An hahltusl trailer a
mighty strong aggregation 81 ball play
.rs Ia r.nreser, RrooNlyn. From present
Indications he will have AS muc,, TO saw
AZ any one where the 1916 pennant II 10
ne park.i
~ think my piayers understand me
now" said Robbie. the other day. They
didn't understand me at trst. They
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Now I have been around as player
3 and manager long enough 10 know thA'
> II hurts the feelings OF "A ball player
worse than II does "A manager when a
S mistake is made IN a crisis. The player
n uho mayor makes "A mistake il no gOOl