Evening star., 1923-02-25

ot.tle Cubs and bright hght IN IN
"lIusk during that period OF his c
speed and ability to hold his own i'll
Every day the Tinker-to-Evers-to
Chance combination was or the job,
Rase bah miracles became almost com
featured performer. His natural lead
erShip soon asserted itself and the
mana serial rems We're placed i'll his
hands. He made good with Ven
geanCc.
Ills new duties seemed TO give
Chance added ability and the Cubs of
his reign crashed through the National
League like meteor and made some
of tie finest chapters! OF base ball his
kelEl that old Cub machine won an
armful of pennants and world cham
piorshps. They rechristened Frank
Chance His host OF followers loved
"Husk" Chance but now lie had ac-
compllshed so many wonderful things
he must have little more III keeping
With his efforts and from their hearts
they called him. The Peerless
Leader" His pals of course cut it
TO THE p. L.
Fakes Lendeshrip of Innks.
Wnen he retired to his native cali
forria in 1911 he had accomplished
enough to satisfy any ordinary NOR
tai. But Crance is not an ordinary
mortal and when the poor downtrod-
den and abused Yankees called TO him
for assistance his great base ball
Eeart bade him listen 10 the appeal and
the 7. L. eased himself eastward.
never dreaming what the fatcs had in
store for him.
Learned reader did You ever see
the Yankees of 1913 and 1914 try to
play the game called base ball" Did
you ever see them do one thing cor
Tectly?
There was the one big league club
that merely went through the motions.
Now can you imagine Il man with
'Husk" Chances reputation and ability
being tossed into such a vacuum" Try
yoar imagination.
had never met Frank Chance until
ths day ! reported to him in 1913 at
that he was a driver, hard boiled and
1nieXible. Well, after watching that
club doing their stuff that first day
krew Chance was not capable OF being
good name. He had his head nearly
hidden in the water bucket and as he
sronged the back of his neck with ice
wtter he would murmur.
Wanted Only Square Deal.
so this is a big league ball club
three men on, no one out-not ball
ait to the outfield--not ball hit on the
ground. Three men on, no one out
not run scored. And they call this
d big league ball club"
Then he would try to drown him
SELF with ice water and 4 sponge.
He never said cross word to
player who gave the best he had. All
ie asked was square deal and you in
turn received like treatment.
One check grabber was fined $4,000
one season because that player broke
nearly every rule in the book. But
the Z. l.. saw to it that said players
wife received every cent of the fines
because. as he told me later, it was
the only mone- the wife received from
tie husbands efforts during the en-
tie year.
Yes, Frank Chance was a just man
TO work for. SO just that you could
be. your right eye on being disciplined
TO- an infraction of rule. unless you
had It very good excuse.
During 4 series in Philadelphia one
of our players texcuse me, ! mean
membcrs) overstayed the nights al
iotrent for diversion and was nailed
coming in by the =. l..
"T'his little episode will cost you
twenty-five" said Chance.
IF you fine me twenty-five, I'll join
the Navy threatened the player.
"1f you promise ME that you'll join
the Navy retorted Chance I'll give
them five huqdred dollars to send you
10 China
IIusk Could Keep n Secret.
Another member had a reprimand
slapped on him in the clubhouse enc
day after terrible game against the
Whito SoX.
WY pan me-, cried the player. 81
That's just why I'm panning' YOU
answered Chance. II know you didn't
do anything. want you to do some
thing. even if it is wrong-do some
thing.
On the other hand. if a player was
trying, but was out of luck. sick or in
slump. the old p. l.. did everything
possible 10 help that player back to nor
Elalcy. Many a time he was hooked for
loans On which he held not even a Kath-
leen Mavourneen.
And could he keep a secret: Listen.
One day Ray Keating was pitching
against the st. Louis Browns-sailing
the old emery ball at EN-. Chance knew
he was using the emery. but didn't. In
the seventh inning things went bit
wrong and he called me from the ''bull
PEN u relieve Ray. Two men were on,
two were out and Bert Shotten was at
bat. Eert hit a slow roller toward me.
] teIded the ball and threw it directly
at the first baseman's outstrctched
hands. That ball saile'! like an aero
landed in the grand stand boxes. had
made beautiful two base throw and
the game was over, so far as we were
concerned.
the loss of that game, but the next day
he insisted on my pitching against the
Browns.
Always Insists on speed.
BY stroke of good fortune | won it
and a few days later he told me the
secret of my two base throw. He said
] had handled one of the balls Keating
had bccn roughng with the emery
paper and therefore the wild heare.
Bat, 50 that ] would not lose confidence,
] was sent right back at the Browns.
cali that very fine piece of managerial
judgment.
The +. l.. loves speed He can talk as
fast, as long and as loud to an umpire
as any man in the big leagues He
never figures on winning an argument
in favor OF the next close decision. He
also loves speed on the bases. speed in
thought and action, although he never
saw any during his sentence with the
Yankees Also he loves speed in auto
mobiles.
He drove me down town one day in
his Blitzen Benz. He sailed along
under the elevated, lodging posts.
trucks. taAis. etc When We reached
the hotel he asked, Were you fright
cped""
enlightened nothing" 1 replied. II
was scared nearly to death"
reached the hotel so quickly that I
didn't have time to know the proper
expression for my feelings.
The p. L. withstood the strain OF
trying to manage. that terrible outfit
we called the Yankees for nearly two
years
He trained them in Bermuda and in
Texas. He fought umpres. newspa-