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Show BROOKLYN-MANAGER HAS MANY FRIENDS j Eobinson's Motto Is, ' ' Treat Players j Like Kumans, Not Like i Machines." j NEW YORK, Dec. 21. Uncle Wiib-rrt 1 Robinson, the rotund manager of the 1 Brooklyn Dodpera, frets a maximum amount of .pepper and work out of his ! ball players. Hobby and his playr-va are practically the same as pals, ajid that is the answer. Whenever a player on t he Brooklyn ajub 1 develops a case ol" temr-eraincnt. Rouby 1 may be found on the job wiih his con-i con-i tajiious smile and his amiable personality, personal-ity, smoothing" out the wrinkles, j The secret of Robinson's success in de-! de-! velopini young' pitchers, in which he made a great success with the Giants, is based on the same principle. His motto is "treat 'em like humans, not as machines, ma-chines, and they'll win for you." And that motto has made Uncle "Wilbert a host of friends, both in and out oi j baseball, for he applies it to everybody. ! Robby outlines his belief as foiiows: i "Treat your players like humans and i they will win ball games. ; "That is my idea. It is not goin? to do any good to "cut in and bawl a fellow out . because lie -plays bad in one prame ur pulls a bonehead piny. I was with big league teams for years, as player, coach and almost al-most every other capacity, and I know that the big percentage of ball players will work harder if taken to task kindly than to be preached to continuously, before be-fore their (V-ilow .layers. 'There are a few men, of course, on whom kindness would be lost, but it is human nature to trent ball players right. I could name probably half i 'dozen players in the Nationnl le;n;i:e who must be driven to their work, who would not be able to show their worth unlrss the manager was continually riding them. On our bail club, I nm very bap-)y to say, there are none of these men." |