Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-30 | Page 8 | 'Chubby Charlie' Takes Wallop at Frnak Chance

CHUBBY CHARLIE TAKES WALLOP AT FRANK CHANCE Murphy Fails to Consult Records Records Records Rec- Rec When Slamming B Bench Managers WATCH I JOHNNY AND JOE JOEDy BY llY ROBERT ROBIRT RT EDGREN Charley Charey Murphys Murphy's intimation lIon In n his Chicago Interview w that the success of ot ofa ofa a n. b ball ll team depends more moro on playing then than thant the than t the he managing wont won't curry carry much weight weIghs with tans fans who have the dope on th tho gr great at notional national gameS game An Any bleach- bleach could g Murphy an argument on such a n subject and prove proc to anybody's any any- body's satisfaction that ho he's hes nIl ull wrong Murphy Murph hits h at t Chance when he says 1538 My enthusiasm Is pretty Inett much confined confined con con- fined to those men who can cnn 1 play la tho the same game and not knot to those who wish to draw salaries salaries' for Cor or telling others ho how to tb do It V Its Irs a n. safe bet hot that Murphy didn't think this wa way vay In 1910 1908 1907 and 1906 1306 when Chance led tho the Cubs to the tho National league championship champion champlon- ship made b baseball history and Incidentally incidentally inci mci- dentally a a. lot of oC money mone for Murphy and hla hiI hacker True Chance was a ft playing manager r then but even en If It he hadn't been hi his hla tare are knowledge of men and his ability tp to get set the tho best efforts out of ot his players might have o brou brought ht abo about l tho the same r result WIth no other chance hance to knock his mann c-mann manager cx er Intimates that these days demand a quick thinking playing manager and that Chance may not hot prove pro a wizard directing his men from the bench According to Murphys Murphy's Ideas the playing maha manager or Is the tho only success successful CuI leader and yet et all we need do to disprove this Is 18 to reflect on the Iho work of ol John McGraw McGray Clarke Griffith Grif Grif- tUh Hu Hughie Hughle Jennings Connie Mack and Fred Clarke Clarke all all proven successes at nt bench managing Wo might go further further fur tur- 1 ther thoI and point out the miserable fail fall failures failures ures such star players a an as Hal Chase and Harr Harry Davis Dals made mado when they as as- the managerial duties along with their regular Jobs on tho the field Davis found Cound out In short order that ho couldn't play and manage th the team and finally had to quit null Chases Chasa's lack of ot success IB Is too well remembered to need repeating Viewing It from froni an any an anglo angle lo It looks as If Murphy either forgot to consult the records or purposely omitted their perusal In defending himself for letting letting letting let let- ting out Chance tho the man who gave Chicago a winner in 1906 and thereafter there there- after for Cor the first since Cap Anson Anson's Ansons Ansons Anson's An- An sons son's time back In La 1886 For Johnny Everss Evers's sake wo we wish the Cubs well In next seasons season's pennant light fight Johnny Is a a. great t ball player and a. a hustler That combination de de do- serves success but anybody a sense Fonse of ot fairness hates to see sec credit for forthe forthe forthe the Cubs' Cubs achievements claimed at the me expense of ot a ft man like Chance who whose e record speaks for Itself Lets Let's wait walt and see ace Just how far the coming season season season sea sea- son will bear out Murphy and his argument argument ar ar- ar- ar for tor the playing manager a aa ats personified by Evers at the tho head of oC tho the Cubs and end Joe Tinker leading the Reds two men we might say In developed de b by Chance