The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

r TAMPA, Fla,. Feb. 20.-Washington
 now has a boy nanaser, when you
 measure him alongside the age and / baseball experience of other big league , pilots. But Stanley Harris, the newly appointed T-year-old field director or, oI a
 the Senators, will make good--or some ls thing will go bust. :. "when started to play baseball in
 1916 I made up my mind that there was ' only one place for rne--the top" said ,.Buckey," as they call him, when con
 gratulated at the Tampa Bay notei, where he is shaping his plans for the 1924 American league campaign. ...
 Tn any business the boy who starts at the bottom must have tho ambition ( to be asmanager, superintendent or the :. highest position he can attain 1T ne . hopes to be success. It was natural that Isbhould set as my goal the man. agership of . big league club. Q thrilled, that ! reached. the top go soon. | Frankly. I would not have heen terriDiy disappointed, nor would have felt that
 my ambition to reach the top vas de- z feated had Mir. Griffith appointe0 some other man to lead his team tns year.
 ..It fs simply too wonderful for words to realise thet after four full seAsons ss with the Senators I am to pc the man . ,ager of my club-the youngest manageF < in the major leagues. But I have been : preparing myself for the Joo. 1eSl .;,.: an and am confident will make good" F These words cannot possibly impress [ one when, they appear on the printed i, pare as they did when they; were ut \ tered by Harris. He is boy in enthus- iasm. in appearance, in his exubsrance me :, cerity, his mental vision, his intensity >sof purpose. Incidentally. he is not . ? braegard. sS ,ss
 stan Harris insisted upon a two-year contract at a salary which he says is entirely satisfactory. He declares that be terrible for a fellow to drop back to .gi the ranks of a player under another , manager after he had been the big boss himself."
 Confidence In Players
 Bucky Is certain in his own mind that Washington has the players, that 7 he knows them better than any man in 'Tthe world because of his association with them, as their captain and fellow laborer. and failure is. as far removed , from his mind and vision as Hong < Kong.
 s'It's simply great to have the oppor- tunity to match your wits against such wise baseball men as Husgins. Cobb and Speaker" continued the boy man : ager. q mention them because they Y led the teams that beat out the Sena- r. tors last season. s .s And while 1t is bit early to talk about the finish of the race, I figure that our club has a chance to slip in se there, because the Yankees, Tigers and Indians will be fighting one another tooth and nail. It would not surprise me if the Yankees cracked. Three in a row is stepping some, you know. The fourth may be hard to get.
 ."Cleyeland has strengthened her club where t was weak--at first base. That boy George Burns will hit like a fool and play the same fine game he played i, for Boston last year.
 Detroit can't miss if Cobb plugs that gap at second base. If Ty had ac- squired Eddie Collins--well, I'd say the Tigers were the boys Washington would have to lick to finish in front. Aiming At The Tanks
 "Now, 1t Is natural that both De- troit and Cleveland will give the New