Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-17
SPEAKER DOES MUCH /
AND REVELS IN WORK
Game Manager OF Cleveland
Indians Kno,Us a Mans
Job is Neuer Limited;
Does Everything Well. i
BY GRANTLAND RICE
Somewhere Along the Road

a "t "o" hNO" u JHH W Hutt'
OF enpY and of iprong,
Where life is still scrap Wih fate
As seasons more along;
And yet amid the bitter hraH
How lighter grops the load
When one eau hear friendly call,
4 friendly hail across the tcaN
SomeUhere along the road.
The rorM is fuH of Knots and such
That test ono in a hole,
Where fate maintains its deadly clutch
Upon the UedrV soul.
1nd net rhen life is dull and bare
HoD little seems the 1ood
lIhen some .mdte>hds a smile to spare,
tfendiy grip that's on the square
Somephere along the road.
Something to Think Over
VERY few-or even fewer-can do a
' little work well. The less you have
to do the more certain you are to do It
rather badly. The more you have to do
the more likely you are to do all Of II
well.
AS a rule it is only the prodigious
workers who get 100 per cent out of
their assignments.
Here, for example. Is Iris Speaker.
He is managing ball club that is in
the thick of pennant fight. Speaker
is one of the hardest workers in the
game. Not only on the field, but off
the field, he is planning and working,
encouraging his men and looking after
| numerous details.
And as side, line he is not only
playing a great game in the outield but
is also batting around 400.
Speaker hasn't allowed his many
managerial duties to interfere with his
work through the game. He has put
enough determination into his days
routine to do both jobs well. On the
one side he is keeping his club in the
fight; on the other he is having the
greatest season he has ever known.
Speaker knows that mans Job is
never limitcd-not until the work is
| completed. So don't overlook the Texan
in naming one Of the main heroes OF
the 1870 campaign.
Together
! rTEN or twelve years ago there were
L four great managers in baseball.
They were Connie Mack, John McGraw,
l1ughey Jennings and Frank Chance.
Chance retired after his attempt to
get the Yankees going.
The Standing Of the Clubs is eloquent
| enough testimony as to what has hap
pened to the other three.
Jennings and Mack, who won seven
pennants from 1907 through 1914, are
in the death grip for last place. Me-
Graw has spent most of the year at
tempting to keep as high as seventh in
an eight club race. None of the three
is young. Together they have won
fifteen pennants. But it is question
now whether any one of the three will
ever win another. The stars who went
with them to fame are gone or scattered
l-Mathewson, Donovan, Bender, Plank,
McGinnis. And all have come a long
way to start over again.
The Interval
GREAT heavyweight battles, battles
~ that carry their appeal to the null
| titude, are few and very far between.
The interval between big fights Is
almost an era or an epoch.
Jeffries knocked out FitZsimmons in
1898. or 1899. His next big fight was
in 1910, when he was beaten.
After winning from .Jeffries. Jack
JohnsOn's big fight came with Willard
in 1915. Willards big engagement
came with Dempsey in 1919. Note the
span between these battles of big inter
est--1S9S. 1910. 1915. 1019-four ir
twenty one years. a five year gap be
tween upon an average.
Dempsey may have two or three
minor engagements to face. But it ma!
be two or three years before he has {
contest on where public interest il
worked up to the recent Toledo pitch
where any considerable part of the ma
ton is aroused as it was a year ago.
A match with Carpenter would
arouse this interest. but no one else il
capable of producing the dramatic es
sentials. And it is no part of Ger,
tainty that Dempsey and Carpentie
will ever meet.
Another Suggestion
THERE is only one way, of course, t,
L prevent the intentional free pass
And that is to build heavier penalt,
otherwise. G. Il. Van Vlecck, Jr.. tn
old Yale pitcher, suggests that the bats
man be given two bases where tn
pitcher fails to get one strike out q
four attempts. This would be big hel
in breaking up any intentional pass
And pitcher who can't get one strik
over the plate out of four trials shoul
suffer a double penalty, anyway. IL h
should get one strike over and the bats
man missed it. he could then 20 ab0u
his business of walking the slugger in
crisis. But the heavy hitter would O
, least have that one crack at it.
This latter suggestion seems to be
,, first class solution of the problcm-on
at least worth consideration.
(Copvrioht, 1920 Al rights rcserped }