Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 29 | Laying Managers Leaving Baseball

W Hi 5: LEAVING BASEBALL ;it Four Players Bossinf ( in American and National Na-tional Leagues. . M E R I CAN LEAGUE 191S MAN-, MAN-, AGERS. ' , UKNC11 ramie Mack. Philadelphia Ath- .. letics. . ' lark Qrlffttb, Waablnstbn Senators, 'lush Jennlnya, 1'etrolt Tigers, .ee Kohl. Cleveland Indians. Mnch Kickcy. St. Louis Rrowns. rllUam Donovan, New York Yankees, larenre Rowland, Chicago white lt Sox. K fUVINfl. , rtlUam Carrigan. Roston Red Sox. IATIONAL LEAGUE 1915 MANAGERS. MAN-AGERS. BKNCH. .. vat Meruit, Phillies. ' olm J McCiraw. New York CSiants. eorw T. diallings. EBMton Braves, .'tlbert Rotiinson. BlOOKlyil Superhas. ved v Clarke. Pittshurg Pirates. PLATING. '. tiller J. Huggtns. St. Louis Car-dinals. Car-dinals. haries Herxog. t'.ncirtiati Reds. ,oger BresnaWan, Clilcago Cuba. t it possible for the manager of a big rue baseball club to play every day and Vrt his team successfully? When that alien was asked five years ago and "e. it developed a rapid-fire argument, re were Connie Mack, John McOraw Hughey Jenntngs as ammunition for bench manager adherents: the debal-en debal-en the side of the playing boss had nk Chance and Fred Clarke as notable . mples of success, sk the question today, and what is result? Only one playing manager the American league and three In the lonal. the managerial type were selected n the result of the 1914 major league - ipaisns. the bench manager would win dy. George Stallings. who drove the ..ton Braves to the National league rant and then to victory over the letics in the world's series, never es the dugout reserved for the play-He play-He does not wear a uniform. Nel-r Nel-r does Connie Mack appear on the field he course of a game, and yet he has i more honors than auy other baseball 5 in modern times. always has appeared best for the lager of a team to confine any work may choose to do coaching whi team is on the attack. For how fh world can Charley Heriog of the s. for example, know what is going In the outfield when his attention has . he riveted to a possible play at sec-base? sec-base? Or how can Roger Bresnahan. .ring the mask and chest protector for Cubs, decide what the infield shall : in case of a double steal when Sher-'d Sher-'d Magee is at bat and Rajah has to ote his attention to preventing the ;ger from knocking a home run? un, what chance has Miller Huggtns plan inside attacking for the Cards (n he is at the plate trying to rap out 'ngle and send in the tying run? ist Direct Plays. rasebal today is a game of brains. it usually is up to the manager to M rclse the mental -powers. The play-rand play-rand there are few exceptions are -r- rhanlcal to the extreme. Thev expect . told when to bunt and when to hit .)ut: when to come in for a play at plate and when to etav out for a :ble killing. is well known that Connie Mack and q 'Cge Stallings are supreme In the . .rse of a game. Thev mav permit :." players to use their own Judg-it Judg-it on hitting, or bunting, or stealing, the bosses have an elaborate sys-of sys-of signs, and flash them for almost ry important move which comes up I the battle. And because thev sit on t bench, with the whole battle before II r eyes, and no individual efforts to llract their attention, thev are In a tton to know what is best to do; in fr Judgment, at least. U red Clarke, when he was a placing rage., was a .300 batsman and one of 1 best :eft fieidera in the big leagues IU could say to his players. "Do as I do we'll win." Furthermore, when the iies were supreme baseball was ... e.v a game of "slug and field." Frank Miee. too. was a thoroughly capable I baseman as we!! as a first-class -.man. out he had as his aides such ? nJ. P'ars as Evers. Tinker. Kllng Morde'-ai Brown. Ctarke and Chance i found that they could not continue .-Play and direct their clubs. And her of them was In need of crutches n he quit active work. iching Managers Inspire. ;LSl,e h" fa-' that Mack and 'lings do not v.oar a 1Jr.iforrn and I enl upon their lieutenants for the - thing and other field duties, it would" . ear that the manager who gets out l hiB men once in a while should get nest results. Especially has this been I of Jonn McOraw and Hughey Jen-;s, Jen-;s, who inspire their batsmen and i runners on the attack bv their - tted coaching. : I'JA6''8 Si trytnff t0 combine the ' S,?ash.,p w,tn actlve Paying are II-' II-' t ,two nen Charley Dooin Joe Tinker. Dooin. when he was le manager of the Phillies, was re- -h 5f "T the bes( backstops he hig leagues. He soon discovered . he could not attend to both Jobs, the experts began to say that "a niwSSiS had.. oeen turned ln' . uocre manager. 9 rnattrs not what sort of a boss th" ,art "main, that In 1 knew fha ,he 1?U season- ticf i, thi1' he 'as rid of the worries . "rectlng the team. Dooin went behind oth,"r 'l" the wordB Pat Moran - others who saw It, "No better ex-' ex-' on of catching ever has been seen " ging from the reports from the Giants' re, rem years the bench manager has b? Ju gH'lL1 soon th pa"! 4 DO" be a thing of the past