Evening star., 1924-01-04
Hopeful of Flag Title Tourney Planned for Coored Heauies

officer who wouldn't ask a private to
do anything that he couldn't do and
wasn't willing to do himself If neces-
| Sary.
~ Now. 70 . wIlbsrt ntsI Robinson; Connie
system, all about the same. They
are of the gentle. lovable type of
men for whom men will work their
would not want to offend or dis
appoint them.
| Those men werev particularly good
In handling timid young players or
tn. the .,i,naas freaks who could not get along
finding what troubled a young fell
low and nurAing him along by gen
tieness and encouragement. Wilbert
good players for the game by being
patient and forbearing with them,
and there Is no telling how many
Connie Mack made valuable to the
league.
Some players really are tempera
mental and get upset when ridden
too hard. They are artists at heart
and get discouraged when things
don't break right. Robbie us-d to
get two or three fellows like that to-
gether and take them off on a fishing
or hunting trip. making them feel
that they We're members OF the lam
lily. The boys loved Bobbie SO that
they would do anything in the world
to please him. Besides that. he al
ways gave them some good laughs.
Frank Selee was that way, and so
J Is Connie Mack. Except when the
game gets close you'd think Connie
Mack a Sunday school teacher on
| the bench. He always is kind and
gentle and rarely ever criticizes a
player harshly in front Of the others.
He prefers to take the boy up to his
room for a nice long talk. Connie
Mack was one Of the few managers
who could keep Rube Waddell for
any length Of time. At that. Wad-
dell had Connie picking at the cover
/ lets some times.
| Pat Moran uses a system which is
! a combination Of both those that
Rave mentioned. He wants fighting
players and will hop on them IL
| will be kind and gentle, always en-
lcouraging. Moran has the knack of
knowing a good ball player when he
sees him in the rough. He will worry
along with him until he gets results
A Batch TO Pick From.
Bill Carrigan of the Red Sox also
was a sort Of combination of both.
He was a fighter and also a diplomat
F, The players were very fond of Bill,
but there was no time when anybody
| had any doubts as to who was boss
| of the club.
! Now, in selecting pitchers. just
look what / must consider:
| Walter Johnson. Christy Mathew
son. Grover Alexander. Cy Young,
Lever. Jack Chesbro, Vic Willis,
| Ed Walsh, Babe Adams, Miner Brown
George Mullen, Carl Mays, Amos
Rusie. Wilbur Cooper. Red Faber, Joe
McGinity and a lot of others.
Just lay all those names out and
then start to sift out their strength
and weaknesses. It's mans job
I'm telling you.
Then look at catchers:
Roger Bresnahan. Johnny Killing
Lou Criger. Buck Ewing, Jack
O'Connor. George Gibson. Chief
Meyers. Red Doom. Ivy Wingo. Chief
thinner. Jimmy Archer, Pat Moran
and Walter Smith.
II am working SO hard, but just
thought you might be interested
j maybe you might start picking a
team yourself-and beat me, at that
Eddie Collins. Johnny Evers, Jimmy
Collins. Hughey Jennings. John Nc
Graw, Claude Ritchey. Art Fletcher
Bobby Wallace. Tommy Leach. Her.
man Long. Fred Tenney, Rabbit
Rogers Hornsby. Jake Daubert. Harry
Steinfeldt, Frank Frisch and many
others.
There isn't a bad one in the lot. is
There? How would any manager in
the big league today like to buy any
lone of those boys for $4,000?
! In the outfield my list includes
jWillie Keeler. iris Speaker. Ty Cobb
Max Carey. Joe Kelley, Bill Lange
Clarence Beaumont, Frank Schultz
Hugh Duffy. Eddie Roush. Mike Don
lin. Buck Freeman-well, that will
igive you an idea.
l may have left few great ones
Iout here but they will appear in the
teams that / pick. l know am GO
irg to catch the devil in criticism. but
I'm all set.
Tomorrow: My Grand All-Amer-
lican Team.