Show I WRATH OF MANAGERS FALLS ON GOLF AND AUTOS FEW PLAYERS MAKE IT BAD FOR REST i I I The elect of ot outside Influences on ball players Is la consta constantly a s source of study to managers and almost every year moro more stringent rules aro aro being adopted by tho the pilots J to keep ther their men In the tile height of oC playing form durIng during dur dur- durIng ing the tho season Clarence Rowland Howland of oC the White Sox Is the latest pilot to take a hand band In Inthe inthe the life of his players off tho the field He has Issued a ou au order that his hh pitchers pitch erA ers shall bo be forbidden from driving I automobiles during tile the playing season I I This will fall tall pretty hard on ou Jim Scott Urban Faber Joe Benz and Eddie Ed Ed- die tile Cicotte all of oC whom own cars and It may cause USO other mana managers ers to adopt similar rules rulos if fC Rowlands Rowland's hunch works out Baseballs Baseball's case against tho the automobile automo bile is one which has tIns occupied managers managers' man mau- I agers agers' minds for man many years cars carsMore More than hat half the players in the majors own their thou own cars and drive them theta daily during the playing season In lit I Cleveland leveland three years ago it was claimed that tho tile poor showing of or the I team was due mainly to players pay ing more attention to their machines than they did to their baseball Nothing came of oC this however cr Joe Birmingham who managed tho club I that year Issued no orders against motoring mo ma- and Cleveland finished a poor eighth I Golf is another thorn In the sides of or managers Last year ear Bill Carrigan I I Issued a blanket order against his men menI I playing golf golt It is 18 rumored that oth er cr managers will fall tall in line this year The real question seems to rest in those thoRO players who permit their outside pleasures Interfere with tiller thier baseball rather than to tho the entire lot lol of base ball players Ball players ers who motor or golf sane sane- I ly never permit these pastimes to interfere interfere in in- I with games CarrIgan admitted admit admit- ted tech that he lie was forced to make lila Ills golf order on account of oC two or three players who had been beon warned repeatedly repeat edly against thinking more of their golf golt than the thc they did hil of or their baseball and the same is probably true of ot the I Whito Sox pitchers As It would be he Impossible for Cor a aI manager to discriminate against Individual Indi I vidual players a few tew golf or automobile automo bile fiends make it bad ball for all their teammates |