Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-30
WHEN HENDRICKS
WAS A GIANT
New St. Louis Manager Tells How
it Feels to be IN the
Big Show.

Jack Hendricks, the new manager of
the st. Louis Cardinals, gives an inter
csting account of his baseball experience
IN the Baseball Maga zine for April.
Il jolned the Giants" says Hendricks,
in the davs when the American League
was making big stir The Giants then
were but wtetched substitute for
what they afterward became Twas with
the club perhaps about three weeks and
during that time | served under no fewer
than three managers The one remcm-
j,cr best of NIL was our old college chum,
Horace Fogcl. \ young, much touted
pitcher had recently joined the club.
MathewSon by name. Fogcl was obsesscd
with the opinion that Mattv would not
make good on the slab. We needed a
good first baseman, in fact we needed good
men IN practically every position none
more so than the position | tried to cover
myself So Fogcl determined to make
hrst haScman out of Matty. DON know
what kind of a showing he would have
made at the initial sack, but fortunately
for pitching records he wasn't called upon
to try very long Fogel departed and
Nc(iraw came on the field of action
Mack has been accused of firing me.
doubt II he Is entitled TO that honor. or
perhaps ii would best be termed a duty.
As matter of fact | WAS led to believe
that arrangements had already been made
for my going away from there before
Mctiraw assumed the toga OF authority
| suppose | took part in about ten games
altogether while with the Giants. | was
a bum right-felder If there ever was one.
but my hitting for some unaccountable
reason, showed up in impressive form.
Ii | remember correctly | hit for some
- N for haf
average We must all admit Later how
ever, | was led to believe that perhaps
| was hitting slightly above my normal
form, when | was lingering around the
$50 mark
AT any rate, when my three weeks
were over, | sought transportation To
Chicago. Later in the season filled out
for a few games with the Cubs. But no
manager Haunted a big contract before
my eager ewes even though there was
great competition between the two blg
circuits for promising ball players
Il was forced to tarry for my next
appearance in the big show until Big I'd
Delchanty's tragic death, while with the
Washington club You know there are
certain lines of business where the only
hope OF promotion is IN waiting for the
man ahead Of YOU to die. That seemed
To be nv position I'd was hitting some
thing like four hundred at the tune, |
believe ] went to Washington AT the |
earnest solicitation Of the club and PLAYED |
forty games. all told ] don't remember |
that the club won any Of those games, |
but | suppose il must have done 50. Ii |
was certainly a sad looking aggregation |
and | really doubt if helped it materially |
with my presence At least that seemed |
10 be the prevailing impression with the |
management and they intimated that |
rnv services would no longer be required !
Some Of the press writers also took occa- |
SION TO obliterate as far as possible my |
bump of self esteem They noted |
marked difference between the batting !
of the late Ed Delehanty and my own /
imposing record. ! believe | hit Tor /
something like $50.
At any rate | went away from there
and found myself wearing a uniform with |
the Indianapolis Club Ed Barrow was
manager and ! owe him z cat debt OF |
gratitude He made my subsequent |
career Is a manager q possibility. At /
he time t1le club Al Springfield, Ill had /
played about tYcnty-slX games and lost I
something Ike twcntv-four Of hem. /
Some az nv friends thought il would seem |
homc-like for me TO he fassuciated with
such 3 club after nv late connection with /
the " .1shIngJOu aggregation - tItN 4
held out the prospect ot managing this /
club No doubt they felt ! could do no /
worse than the manager they already had /
But the job was contingent upon my
success in getting my release from In /
dIanapolis. That's 2 fine prospect,
| sad 10 them. Il suppose | have JUS /
as much chance Of getting my release 4
from Indianapolis as / have 70 get steady /
work at the White House in Washington. /
But ! made up my mind 10 Try iorlorn /
hope so | told Barrow the circumstances. t
He rose to the occasion heroicaIlv IN /
not stand in the way OF any PLAYER who I.
has q chance to become a manager. |
he SAID and nearly tainted with astonlsh- !
ment. 80 / went to Springfield Later 4
! became connected with Jimmy McCiiI. 4
went TO Denver and have been connected /
with hum ever since.