Show Connie Mack Starts Rebuilding Baseball Roster at Age of Tears Come to Athletic Leaders Leader's Eyes as He Pan Part With Five Great Stars of Diamond By PAUL I Associated Press Sports Writer CHICAGO Dec 13 13 Its Its It's tomorrow again for that grand old heart and patriarch of baseball Connie Mack j Gone from him are his great stars of yesterday yesterday Bob Bob Grove Al AI Sin SiD mons mona George Earnshaw Mickey Cochrane Max Bishop Jimmy Dyk DYke Mule Haas Hans and others others but but those keen blue eyes that have seen the come and go for almost a a. half century of baseball are gazing Intent and hopefully toward the horizon o of tomorrow J I Connie Mack 71 years old this this' month is starting from the bottom up again His heart ached but shucks hes he's done it before and hell he'll get back to the top again Sad Meeting I Baseball has seen its comedy anc and tragedies but nothing was quite as assad assad assad sad as the thc meeting with the tall taU gaunt leader of the Athletics with newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper men last night when he made probably the most important announcement announcement an an- of player deals in the thel games game's history Well boys he started here it is isi I Bob Groves that's the wa way he said t t Rube Walberg Max Bishop go to the Red Sox Sax Mickey Cochrane goes to Detroit to Chicago and we get Mr Berry Catcher Charley Charley Char Char- ley icy Berry from the White Sox Pitcher Pitch Pitch- er Bob Kline and Infielder Harold Rabbit from Boston That's all He smiled as he announced the deals and calmly swept aside a barrage barrage barrage bar bar- rage of questions as to salary terms etc But outside the conference room I he almost surrendered to his emotions emotions emo erno- for the first time Tears welled In his eyes and he slowly wended his way to his room for lor solitude Loved Players Gee his heart is broken one reporter re re- re porter who has known him for years said He didn't mind some of the fellows fel tel lows but it broke his heart to part with Grove and Cochrane You know he loved those guys Poor Connie A reporter called Connies Connie's room He was in but he didn't answer But a half hall hour later down In the hotel lobb lobby he stood You wouldn't guess that he had just broken up his ball club except for Jimmie Foxx Cochrane slid up to him Im manager of the Detroit Tigers now Mr Mack Mock you know and Id I'd like to buy Higgins a What exclaimed Mack Mak in genuine genuine germ germ- ine Inc bewilderment Why do you ou think for a minute that I want to break up tip m my baIl ball club |