Show I I Manager Entitled to Major Share of Praise for Winning Pilot Piot Who WIto Directs Direct Play and hid Shows Skill in Handling Temperamental Stars Greatest Factor in Success Success Suc Suc- cess of Baseball ClubBY Club BY SAM SA ORANE CRANE VETERAN BASEBALL EXPERT f P OES the make the the make the tito DOES JOES manager pla pla cr cr or player mala manager cr has ins been a much mooted question ever CYer since baseball has been exploited 1 am of oC the opinion that it is the thc mana manager cr who is more entitled to to the tho credit for rOle a winnin winning aggregation gregat on than titan the players ers Occasionally a player fla flashes across the baseball firmament like liko a n Mike lkc Kelly Kely a n Buck Ewin Ewing or a n Ty Fy Cobb Cobh who as individuals cannot be excelled lc but not one of those I stars would be worth a continental if not directed by their manager as asto asto I to team work T and anti pla play An Any mana manager er who has such great I In individual players on his team as Cobb Is extremely fortunate A mana manager cr 1 Is I foolish if I he does docs not hot allow alow a player with wih Cobbs Cobb's Cobb around all J ability to go goit ro II I It I alone occasionally but not often Th The minute a manager allows his greatest star to imagine he knows more than h he hen then good day to disC dla- dla C I ph n c. c Now o I am non of or the opinion that Ty TyCobb TyCobb TyCobb Cobb I la Is somewhat of ot a detriment to the best beat Inter Interests of or the Tigers' Tigers team pla play Of Ot course T Ty Is the biggest drawing card of ot nn any player In the the American league I wilt will wil acknowledge too that he l 13 Is the only player I ever eve evean saw an without a single weakness but hut being such a star Tn Tyrus s has become a n bit swelled headed Ty Cobb ha has made of Hugh Jennings Jennings Jen Jon flings a nonentity as a mana manager er And AndIn AndIn AndIn In consequence of oC that the Tigers as Jon long as Cobb CoLb Is on their team will wil never tr ne win another pennant In pennant In my iY opinion The Georgia Peach's are catered to simply because he is T Ty Cobb The other players on tho the team are nonentities Cobb Is su suPreme supreme su- su preme with wih the tho Detroit public and the theoffice theoffice office management of the tho club What hat Cobb wants TO o do 10 he docs does Ho lie makes no requests of ot Manager Jennings s. s and he does oes Just as he pl pleases ases Naturally the other members of or the team become disgusted and disgruntled at nt being al always always al- al ways considered as S the also rans There can therefore be he no unit unity no cohesiveness mon amon rmon the tho members of the team ry Ty Cobb is the whole cheese Appears Appear Late on Field That is all aU wrong When hen the Yankees were In Detroit recent recently Cobb dl did not put in an appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap until his team was as out In the field Clel to start tho the game was vacant Just as tho the first Yankee was about to tak take hi his turn at bat Cobb emerged from the clubhouse and sauntered out to his position The start of ot the garre gane gare was delayed until a afew afew few tew fly balls bals had been batted bated out to him There was a crowd of ot 1000 people out to see sec the game It I was wasa a Sunda Sunday afternoon Would an any other manager stand Coran for Cor an any such on going than Jennings Surely John J. J McGraw would not No Xo not If It his team would bo be disrupted It I would be a case of Cobb or McGraw going out I am nm willing wiling to wa wager er It I would not be McGraw That brings s me to the tho gist of ot this stor story W has made players Ami nd nd no player or players ers have made him He lie Is the thc boss and would be too It if Tyrus Trus Cobb were so fortunate as to have ha John J. J McGraw as his mana man man- a ager go r. r McGraw has not only developed star Players but he has hns also produced star managers There are arc or have been fifty mana managers r who ho learned baseball und under r McGraws McGraw's tutelage and there is not on one play player r or manager of ot the lot Jot who will 11 not acknowledge that the they knew kne nothing nothinG at nt all aU about science nce of or playing the game same until McGraw McGraw Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Graw taught them m. m De Hoped Stars Marx Those who arc now on the Giant team and those thos whom he has hrs cut loose from are all nl tho sam same here Hero Is a partial partial par par- list 1st of ot those managers who were cre first with McGraw as players under his management management- ment Christy Christ Mathewson Wilbert Bill lbert Dil Dahlen Joe McGinnity Hu Hugh h Jennings Arthur Devlin De George Roger Bresnahan Bresna- Bresna han Harry McCormick Billy Gilbert BI Gibert f I lr 11 n 1 t n h I TT zog g Joe Iel Keller Jack Doyle Steve Brodle Brodie Mike Doolan Geor George e Rohe nohe Dan Frank an Bill Di Clarke Duck Ducky Holmes Jimmie Jack O OBrien O'Brien rIen George Ia La LaChance 1 Chance Jac Jack Dunn Lunn George e Smith Shadow Merlon Geor George e Van Al Lelbach Leibach Jack Warner Bill Di OHo gan Charley Charle Geor George c Browne Ed I Kennedy enned Crazy Schmidt George Davis Heinie Wagner agner and Gene Dc- Dc montra There are s several veral others too too and andone andone one ono and all al tr try to tolo follow the precepts of ot management as laid down and In Inculcated inculcated In in- In their minds b by Manager John Johi J. J McGraw leGraw ft tt is a wonderful and surprising list surprisinG |