Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-05 | Page 10 | Pilots Need Brains, Says New Card Boss

PILOTS NEED BRAINS. SAYS NEW CARD BOSS Managing in Minors Even Tougher Than in Majors, Hendricks's Opinion. CHICAGO, Feb. 4. "How does it feel to be a real major league magnate!" mag-nate!" we rushed up and asked Jack Hendricks. "No different," he. replied, "than being a 'busher.' " And then he proceeded pro-ceeded to explain. Y'see, Hendricks has known for the, last six years that eventually he would boss a major league ball club. Ho has been the most-mentioned man in tho national pastime. Every time a job needed a manager somebody broke into print to say it had been suggested that Hendricks fill it. How many actual offers he received is a mystery, but they must have been plenty. "It takes the same brains and the same application to run a minor league club successfully that it does to conduct a . major organization." Hendricks continued. "As .a matter of fact, I believe that the small league job is tougher than the one in the big show. "You see, in .the minors you are given a club. You must develop half of it. if you are to win. In the majors the club owners are better fixed financially and can go out and swing a deal or two if you need help. In that way a bad starter may finish , close to the top. In the minors you have to stand on your own feet and do the best you can with the material at hand." Hendricks Is Wise. Long ago, when in a class B league, Hendricks decided to fortify himself against the time when he ho longer would be useful in baseball. He studied Inw at Northwestern university and obtained ob-tained a degree. Frequently he handled han-dled office work for law firms in winter, win-ter, and if cast out of the national pastime pas-time today could set himself up by the simple expedient of hanging out a shingle. shin-gle. For several years Jack has been manager at Indianapolis for Jim Mc-Gill. Mc-Gill. Not only did he run the club on the field, but virtually performed the functions of president. MeGill goes to the Pacific coast every winter and Hendricks remains east. Jack had a contract which called I for a salary much larger than the 1 average in the American association, and in addition received a percentage of the Hoosiers' net earnings. This boosted his stipend to major league proportions. And he had everything his own way. "What he said went. He enjoved the softest spot in baseball. Finally, Branch Rickey, president of the Cardinals, offered him a situation he could not turn down and he accepted. ac-cepted. Relative to Umpires. Hendricks is known as a "fighter." A nolished gentleman off the ball field, he is the same in uniform. Yet ho dashes from the third base coaching coach-ing line to the plate often. The reason rea-son : "'I understand that the umpire calls them as he sees them and that his chief desire is to be right. But when an umpire sees a play from ,the other fellow's angle I protest. I do not expect ex-pect the umpire will chango his decision, de-cision, but I want him to understand the play as I saw it, so when a similar situation arises ngain he will remember remem-ber that we talked about the last one: "I do not believe in "baiting" an umpire, but I do believe that a manager should kick when he has a kick coming.". com-ing.". Hendricks lived in Chicago for a great many years. He used to be employed em-ployed in the city hall in winter, but gave that up vfhen studying law. Like Clarence Rowland of the White Sox, ho was no Ptar ball player, but he knows how to handle men. 1