Show I THEY ALL LET GOOD GOODA A ATHLETES GET A WAY AWAY NEW NE' YORK Dec He eHe is n. n great groat judge of ball players is frequently frequently fre fre- said about the manager and yet there is scarcely i a manager man ager in baseball who has not permitted somo to slip out ont of his grasp When John McGraw tics the to a rookie it usually moans that ho hois hois is no big bg leaguer Only one youngster cast adrift by the Little Napoleon has ever made the Giant chieftain regret the act The boy is Dick Rudolph of the Bronx BroD and one of t the e leading pitchers of the Braves McGraw took DicK Diek on n a couple of training trips but lot him go o in 1911 as he be tb thought Rudolph was too light i ht for big hie- league use Being canned by McGraw does not help a youn youngster and Dick had baa a hard time timo getting back I Last spring ho took the hit into his I Iown own teeth and jacked his job with i Toronto The Maple Leafs saw Dick was in earnest and sold Rold him to Boston Dos Bos' ton where ho bo immediately became a abit hit bit Some Somo of his best pitched games ln last t season wore or against the Giants o feGra Connie Mack l of th the Athi- Athi seldom m mak makes s a mistake though Connie ha haM made mado blunders r Perhaps his greatest test mistake was to permit Joe Jackson Jack Jack- son son the sensational ler ot tho Naps to escape him After ACter developing Shoeless Shoeless Shoe Shoe- less Joe for tor two years In minor mtnor Ien league e fields Mack traded him to Cleveland 1 Mack also had a chance nc to tD get Nap Iap Rucker In 1907 Rucker and nd Holmes were pitchers on the tho August South Atlantic league club fack had a chance to take his pick of the club and ho selected Holmes Holme Brooklyn then took toole Rucker What n. n difference It might have havo made maeh In Naps Nap's career It if Connie had selected him Instead or of Holmes It might bo be Interesting to Brooklyn fans fang to know that EbbettS once upon a time almost got hold ot of Joe Jackson DurIng Dur- Dur Ing the years that tha t rack Mack WAS farmIng Jackson to the bushes for development once refused to waive e on hIm as waivers ers ore are necessary on drafted players Mack fack wrote to that Jackson was not ripe for tho big league Jc and would never ne amount to any nn- thing thinA so Chancy withdrew his waiver Mack also let go or of Eddie Foster the cl crack cl little third baseman of the Sena- Sena tots tors George Stallings who seldom makes a mistake e In young Oung players also per per- Foster to got get awa away from the Yankees Yan- Yan kees ces whilo he was bo the tho local AmerIcans However Foster was n. n ner very er erratic youth In his younger oun or days and never ne amounted to much until Stallings sent him to Rochester Charles of the Sox Sax Is Isa isa a shrewd ft old gink An and he seldom eldom passes passo up a good thing yet ct Chancy released ChIck Gandil the great first baseman of the as well as Cactus Cr ath the thumper ot of the S Phillie Frank Chance has few Co mistakes In his managerial carcer career Whilo he vas director of the Cubs he al a always B held on onto onto to er e that looked hooked like Q a. player however cr while he was searching around for lor a a. first baseman lo o succeed him In Chicago he tradell Luderus to the Phil Phil- lIc lic Since that tIme lime Chance Chanco eloped developed Vie ric however er who in hr the writers writer's opInion Is a man to the tho Quaker slugger Hugh Jennings Jennings' hl big mista mistake e In Detroit was to release Jimmy Archer after h hay hay- vIn v- v In lug Squatting on his pay ron roll foran for tor an entire season er Jim could not nol hit a lick with DetroIt and scarcely batted over or the marl mark Fred Clarke ClarIce of the Pirates passed UPI up Archer before e CJ saw the crack receiver recel Jennings s sUpped slipped up on several se other J. J good bets He ha had Jeff for about ten da days g and then decided the bear hunter tool took up too much room Bob nob Heschel the speed ho boy of the thc Reds also alsoS W was S the property or of Detroit but he s permUted to go without a a. trIal Would not 1111 have e ma made e a great 1 running for Cobb and Crawford Clark I. Griffith also was guilty of ya- ya riou managerial bones When MIen lark Clark was as 1 manager cr of the Yankees It Is sal said ho he had hada a chance to get g-et Cobb In a trade with Detroit De- De troit for Cor one of hi his veterans an and though was a a great tra trader er he would not notha ha have 0 T Ty Lalit season sason GriffIth was badly oft orr for foran foran an outfield substItute lie He ha had a good 00 1 one on Oil his traIning trip and lover liever sus- sus peeled it IL Joe ioe Comically made the entire training t trip wIth the thc Senators but could not see him Boston claimed him via fa th the waiver wal route and Joe was as one or of the best ben young oung players or of the year car |