Show tOLL INS I WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR NEW YORK TEA TEAMS Eddie Collins Collins' wonderful playing in tho the worlds world's series recalls tho the days when ho he was trying to secure a professional engagement It was Just after he ho had finished his studies stud stud- ies tea at Columbia that Deputy Excise Commissioner McAvoy asked Clark Griffith then manager of ot the New v Yorks to try Collins But Grit Griff had bad o so many players then that he turned the youngster away Collins Gollins also was sent gent to McGraw after which Connie Macks Mack's sleuths nabbed him Collins needed experience anti and Mack funned farmed t him to Newark then managed by Walter Burnham After eleven days Burnham sent sont Collins Colllns back to the Athletics with this message to Mack He Ho cant can't hit or field and never will |