The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
Baby Pilot
 Tells Walter
 To- Slow Up
Johnson And Other Veterans Working Hard For Harris,
 Kid Manager
By wEsTBRooK PEeLER
 deassd Wire to The Aae. HeraId)

. TAMPA, Fla, March 13-When Wal baseball IS years ago with so much speed that his catchers had to invent the fireproof mitt, Stanley Harris was playing backyard ball around Potts. vile, Pa, in one of those leagues where every game wound up in a fight about the seventh inning, and the win ming side stole the mitts, bats and mask Spf tho lcsers, r ss-s--9'' --
 9 That was the year that Nick Altrock helped the hitless White Sox win the world championship from the Cubs in Chicago, and naturally Nick was a great man to Stan Harris. If he had had his choice between dinner at the White House and a hot-dog at lunch counter with Altrock, Harris would have said, Put on the dog and don't spare the mustard"
 Walter and Nick were out on the lot at the fair grounds today, Walter pitching to- Muddy Ruel, and Nick knocking fungoes to a squad of pitchers to keep them steaming after their work. Stan Harris was there, too, and Walter and Nick called him boss.
 Not Too Much
 "I wouldn't put too much pepper in
 
 son, in an advisory tone of voice that implied that Walter ought to know best, if it came right down to that. This breeze might give you a crick in the hip bone"
 Johnson, with his belt clinched close about his lean middle and his balloon of a chest filling his flannel shirt as a bladder fills a punching bag, half turned to Harris as he dispatched his fast one whining down the breeze to fetch up in Ruels rapacious pad.
 "All right, boss" the old Swede said. "I save a lot today; no use wasting steam just because I got it, yes, boy?" George Mogridge stalked out of the box when he had finished pitching to to wear around his steaming shoulders.
 Gives Orders
 Hey. Nickl" he called. Here's an- other one. Keep him boiling till we get through work"
 Send him over, boss" said Altrock.
 Harris is 27 years old, the youngest of all the managers of major league ball clubs, and his name is boss to men who were great ones of the ball game long before he took an interest in his first girl or long pants, or was called on to make the enormous de- cision whether he would use the safety or the straight razor.
 Clark Griffith tried to get Eddie Col lins of the White Sox to manage the Washington Senators this year, but the White Sox wanted Harris in the trade, and Griffith was thinking Of Stanley as a manager four or five years hence. When the deal curdled in the hot air of the winter meetings of the magnates, Griffith decided to crowd the future slightly and give Harris the job at once. Harris Is just barely old enough to speak of some of his players as "the youngsters"
 "DangerOus Dan"
 Leon Goslln is only "A and Fred Mar bury, brought in from Little Rock to report to a 2T-year-Old boss for trial as a major league pitcher. is about the same age. Byron Speece, who came east from Omaha when Griffith's s gerous Dan" McGrew, Kidnapped at a tender age from Memphis, are juniors to Harris.
 On the other hand, Altrock must be about AS, Johnson 3S or whereabouts, and Jack Chesbro, the assistant to Ken Harris, closer to 50 than 45.
 Of the others who are content to let Harris give them their orders and take the responsibility, Joe Martina is S4, and was up with the Cubs of Chicago for his Sflrst big league trial 10 years ago, just five years before Stanley first relt the lively spring of hand-plucked lot beneath the bite of his bush league cleats. Rice and Liebold, and George Mogridge, the pitcher, are 33 years old, and would have spoken of Stanley as fairly promising kid five years ago this day. when he was trying out for his first job in the big leagues.
 Harris Tells About It
 "I was hearing of some of these fel- lows long before I ever went into a team that had uniforms" Stanley ad- mitted. "Of course, Walter Johnson and Nick were stars when had to be home by o'clock at night or get a licking. I guess I must have been about seven when Nick broke into the major leagues, because he was up there few years before he got into that world series. I used to be a pitcher, of course. We all were on our lot. And I used to say, Here's a sample of Wal. ter Johnson's speed, If they ali know their work and do 1t as willingly as Walter and Nick, this will be a great job for me-"
 Johnson really Is in magnificent shape, but this is early spring and the summer may wilt this vigor In any case, Harris thinks he will haul up his club somewhere in first division next fall, which Is to say he thinks he will finiaA no worse than fourth in an eight-hQSse race, s.A.4 f HA A i l. A