Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-03
collins, GLEASON
+. DECLINE TO PILOT
S'Too Much Grief, Satisfied
| With Coaching Job," Two
Veterans Assert.
BY GEORGE MORIARTY,
Big League Umpire.

a n ANAGING base ball club is
~ ~ not always bed Of roses. AS
W a matter of record, Eddie Col
i Inns and kid" Gleason, both
former leaders Of the White
Eox, have refused attractive offers to
shape the destinies of ball clubs.
At present they are coaches under
ply to offers, each one merely says
IT am satisfied with my coaching job"
Others say it more pointedly: Too
much grief"
Two other former managers, Art
Fletcher, coach of the Yankees, and
Bill Killefer, assistant to Dan Howley,
have also turned down several oppor-
tunities to handle the reins. Fletcher,
after brilliant career as shortstop OF
the New York Giants, bossed the Phila-
Celphia Nationals several seasons. CRAFTY
in the extreme, Fletcher had only a
ghost of a show, SO he gave up the
ghost.
Bill Killefer led the Chicago Cubs for
a few seasons. Next he joined the st.
Louis Cardinals as a pitching coach
under Rogers Hornsby. When Hornsby
was let out in 1926, Killefer needed
only to nod in the affirmative to be-
come his successor, but he wagged MS
head sideways, much to the disappont-
n1ent of the st. Louis owners.
The rigors encountered by a manager
are obvious. A hopeful start may be
blasted within a few weeks through in
Jury or illness to few star players.
Larry Lajoie, once great second base
man, who later became manager OF
the Cleveland Indians, summed up a
managers chance for success thus:
when your pitchers are pitching and
your hitters are hitting you are a good
manager"
At the Detroit Pittsburgh world series
In 1909, Ned Hanlon, manager OF the
famous old Baltimore Orioles, said to
me: "A great ball club practically runs
itself on its own momentum" AS
proof of the statement he said that he
had sometimes gone on vacations OF
from a week to 10 days, and that the
Orioles continued to win as consistent
" as when he was on the bench.
Hughey Jennings was one of the
Understanding managers in the game.
Besides directing the Detroit club, he
burdened himself with his strenuous
coaching stunt, which necesSitated con-
tinuous yelling. One statiStician has
figured out that Jennings was on the
coaching lines more than $4,000 times,
and each time meant the yelling Of his
clarion "wee-ah."
George Stallings. who won the title
I R1lIdCIe N1dIL "liCi lC0 CALC oOcOON
Braves to pennant in 1914, often
worked himself into a frenzy, although
he never left the bench. Stallings was
extremely emotional In the pinches and
often brushed nearby players of the
bench in his excitement. Knowing his
antics, veteran players gave him half
the bench for elbow room when Things
got hot.
There are two classes of managers
the calm and the hard loser. Lee Foil,
ertswhile leader of the Boston Red Sox,
exemplifled the type unperturbed under
fire. Bill Carrigan. his successor, who
once led the old Red Sox to gold ana
glory, is intensely aggressive. but never
fheless is rnatter-of-fact leader.
Harris Is the cool, calculating and UNI
finching type. McGraw is a quick-on-
trigger manager. He wastes no
sympathy on the player who executes
dumb play.
thorough fighter. never easily upset
mccarthy steels himself to the pelleI
that the other fellow will cave In nrst-
the most courageous philosophy in base
hall Connie MackIs tranquil nature
has been his salvation. In IA years
with a loser he has stood the wear ano
tear like a great army general. inc
leader of the Athletics is 90, ana ne
saws he will manage until he is 10.
And others are saying to managerial
offers: Get thee behind me, satan!
tcooyrisht, 1929. by North American NEWS
paper Alliance)