Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 10 | Personality the Pep of All Sport

rI Personality The 1 ne Pep ep of ofA All All 1 1 S t A Sport p o r By Sol So Metzger I Personality is the tho pep and push of ot all nil sport both amateur and pro pro- tho the Personality fills fUls well wen as ns the to ban bank grand stand a as 19 accounts of or teams teamA to overflowing Without personality a baseball h team goes broke Detroit without It Its Cobb and Its 13 Jennings s would be a t I. bankrupt club Much as we admire team play antI and the spirit of oC co operation necessary to prod produce co coIt it we worship personality In the individual more moro than thal wo do the machine And personality ma may be disparaging Just as It ma may bo be fa- fa a- a When BI Big Six was wa- waIn In his prime as n a n pitcher for John McGraw visitors lol to New ew York were wern invited to the Polo grounds to see Matty Pitch Just as the they now go to see Cobb pIn play tod today r. r Connie Mack made nado his success In baseball through the personality of r his Ins stats stars Rube nube most eCcentric cc- cc centric of or pitchers 1 kept ept Connie Conne Inthe Inthe in inthe the load lend because of oC his personal personal- Il ity The same holds true in amateur sport Harvard's football teams were vere a drawing card because of or the tho presence of or J players ln ers like Hardwick CO was a and Mahan Coy great drawing card for tor Yale back In 1007 1101 1908 and nd 1909 People like the spectacular performer the one ono who stands above the other This Th Is personality But the odd part about the whole game Is that these players of or personality per- per th these jhee e stars of oC greatest magnitude are arc often orten the tho most difficult difficult dif dif- ones to h handle The They ar arthe are the fellows who often orten keep tho the managers and coaches awake at night nIgh Most of or them are arc eccentric The They have to bo he catered to Public pral praise e gives them bean In their own opinion they are aro more valuable than they really are arc Time a and d again I have lIae seen this thin work out in n football ger Every coach conch will tell teU you ou that the star is his problem He gets a viewpoint that will wreck an any team Take your our football star r. He lie soon thinks It unnecessary mr for tor him to train or to practice He Tie becomes a up pureed loafer It If ho ho o is not disciplined he upsets the morale of or the team And disciplining him him Is not a snap snapS Imagine II ghe Jennings firing Cobb for tor some breach of or pline In Cf case e such a situation arose What hat J would happen hl Hughey would get panned by the tho press and Detroit would lose Its drawing power Yet Just such situations sit sit- nations arise time and ond again One must take of off his hat to managers manag manas- ers and coaches for lor handling them as ns the they do lo Connie Mack earned every cent cant Rube Waddell ever brought him duO hi Rube was wa a ough lough nut to handle Rube broke about every even law of oC baseball discipline Connie had to work worle overtime to keep everyone Cerone sweet Rube nube was as ec eccentric eccentric eccentric ec- ec centric and got bot away with it Connie Connie Conr Con Con- r nie tile stuck tuck to Waddell to the end After his usefulness as a pitcher pitcher- was at an ar end Connie kept him on on the payroll I once asked him 7 why he did this Because Mack replied If I let him go to nother club club he lie would heat beat us Jy time limo he pitched a against us lies He's that kind All of or which proves that Rube had bad personality Once I coach coached cd a team with aI a. a I star captain He started out b by 0 breaking every law of or training b by dodging college work and by by making himself a a. pest and ancl a nui nul- sance We Wc used every moVal persuasion persuasion per per- suasion slon that we could command comman Nothing brought results The rhe captain captain cap cap- tain was there to captain that te team lm In his mind there was nothIng nothing noth noth- ing lug else to be done He thought himself good enough to pia play without training experience Then one night b before a 1 big game ame wo ws had it out Dropping him from the tho squad which was what ho he deserved and was exactly what wo we e would have done clone to an any other member of tho the team for a like offense would have hae hurt that bo boy terribly and would also have brought upon the coaches an attack from the press of that C city I tv The night before the game Jame we put It up to him again Told ToM him that eYer every view of the he matter had been considered rod That on the morrow morrow mor mOl row he would have o to lead his hie team and work with them from that dl day dayon on or lose his place on the team The Tho plan worked beautifully and Ind what hat would otherwise have been beena a bad season turned out to be a k athlete can joyride The average be handled h If JC ho he could not be bethen bethen bethen then our sports amateur and professional pro pro- personality I would lack tho those o stars sU who whoso whose e efforts actually draw tho the crowds which make sport on the tho American an scale possible Camp football this fall tall Is going to lack lock stars or former days das to draw the crowds That Is one of of the big problems in camp athletics for the coming tall fall Last fall all it If was different Nearly 1 cron c everyone who had been n at varsity star In ten tell All the old years oars was in service ser football men mon Jumped at the chance to land a commission In tho the first officers officers' training camps Last fall faIl all the they were in the thc various arlous camps and cantonments and we followed their records as IS of yore ore oreTho The Tho Newport naval reserve team was a 3 huge drawing card not because because be be- cause It was a great team but be because because he- he cau cause e It had those two outstanding figures Cupid Black ck the tho former Yale leader and Chuck Barrett D Cornell's greatest football player This taU fall Newport will have hn nothIng nothIng nothing noth noth- ing like the same drawing card nor will ill the other oilier camps True players players play play- ers of or last fall have entered the service during the past six but whether the they will be here or over oyer there Is something no one can answer If Il here there will be fewer football stars by far than were In the camps of or this country countr last fall Cnn Therefore camp tel teams will have o to b be built up It will bo be toward the tho end of oC the tho season be before before be- be fore tore new stars arc are known The Tho lack of oC known stars of or players players play play- ers of personality perso so to speak will moan mean a big handicap to overcome In boosting arm army football this fell Whether h ther the public supports arm army football as it formerly supported college football li Is a matter of or guesswork The Tho patriotic appeal will be there thero but whether that t will overcome O the personality appeal which Is lacking Is another mat- mat tor ter Arm Army teams will enter the arena under a big handicap especially espe espe- emIly in those sections where college collego col- col lego lege football is 13 being plaY played d as of oC yore ore But Dut the tho arm army teams need support more than an any others They are playing for lor big causes Their profits and all except equipment and traveling costs will be bo profit will In be used for various patriotic purposes such as the Red fled Cross war emergency funds and for tor bU buyIng buying buy buy- Ing athletic tlc material for tor tho the camps camp here and abroad All of ot these purposes purposes pur pur- poses ar are necessary tow toward rd winning winning winning win win- ning tho war No one makes a a. mistake mis take In in boosting sport for tor these purposes Ever livery Every dollar taken In means a swat at t the kaiser So back OUr your arm army athletic teams er e every chance chalice you OU get Your choice Is personality or patriotism In sp sport 0 r t. t Copyright 1918 Sol Metzger