Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 14 | Mack Has a Nation That Bodie and Noyes Will Help

I i Mack H Has as a N Notion olion That Thai Bodie and Noyes Will Help 1 I I I I I I I r I I Dec Dee 23 Has Has Con Con- JL 1 mile Mack Hack decided to switch his tactics and go 10 after another American league pennant Mack is reported to have ha announced himself through experimenting with so much college talent lIe Ho Is going soing to spend more of his Vila time hereafter in trying trying- to land players who will be capable of stopping stopping- into berths on his club and delivering the thA goods instead o oo 0 the college brand bran who need several se p years jears rt in the tho bushes and auml at least a year ear on a bli I league n lle bench before the they are ready for Cor service Mack felt the time criticisms I that were directed at his misfits of ot more keenly than he would perI permit permit per per- I mit any my one to think Perhaps ho has decided that his rep as a manager mana-g-er managerI should be ue stimulated b by a winning ball club I Isk I If is n a I livery cy ba baseball e all fan who vho has followed t time the fortunes fortun s of the Athletics for the time past pat six Ix or seven years arg knows what hat Mack can do with real ball 11 players player An Any time ho he himself with a regular ular ball club he is as hard to beal heal t to the lIlt wire as aR the time JH streak of slicked up light lightning And tom for the good goodof of tho the box office in Philadelphia it be behooves bo- bo hooves Mack MacIc to build up ui another yin I nII n- n n II ur Ci Wh n l I Mac lIc c broke o up his famous combination that tha that t old inI in- in I ho field ho probably ly had Imd other than Pe Pecuniary lic- lic reasons for it it lie He almost rid jul- a ay mw some months afterward afterward after after- ward when rumor said sal he was about to sell Stuffy I At that hat time lime Mack l remarked that he would not think of ot selling even en though Stuffy was slumping an and he gave a as the reason that any player who ho worked in perfect harmony harmon with tho the I managerial lc ideas was as sure of ot his berth betth So it must have been Intel Internal nal dissension that caused Mack to teardown tear down n hl his wonderful combination Connie sa says s he has picked up som some excellent material from rom the tho minor with mith CX ex- ex leagues that he lie Is through During tIll tho recent season Mack MacIc worked with Ith quite a squad of ot J newcomers nt and he believes es he has de- de sonio ball players who i- i with mith pla rs 11 lie le has selected from tho the j J Ivory ory Jells fields will him a winner next year eal I Pi rii I ies on OH I Pin n f I IThe The ll infield of or the time Athletics will jj probably bo be composed of ot Grover Gro WILt Witt and Bates Bodle Bodie StrunK and Thrasher will probably figure U Uthe the lI regular uI g-uI l' l outfielders With Ith chang Me Meyer er Halo Halo haley and Pic- Pic to do the Mack has hasa altho al- al a it qua quartet of young oung catchers for tor tho gh can cnn b be called a voter veter veteran an aim of the time machine now nO he lie is Is till still a young youns fellow Cello In I addition i to Sheehan Jin Johnson Johnson John John- son pud alors who huo were with the Athletics lust season Mack has landed from frum Portland and Hill frOnts frOni Waco VaCo h In hu addition to several sc minor league According JI r t to te l' l reports from American 11 league headquarters m in ium Chicago the time Athletics alone alono were financial losers lit last season seabon and nul figuring that Ban Baum Johnson John s poll of seeing to It that that- tho the W weaker sisters of or his lea league uc get an all antho all time the assistance he can lend them thE he 1017 Athletics w will til probably descrY watching next su summer miner