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Show SHAKE-UP SEEN FOR ATHLETICS Mack's Array of Big-Time Stars Doesn't Win Baseball Base-ball Games. It is generally believed that several of the veterans wearing the raiment of the Philadelphia Athletics this season sea-son will be missing before the 192S campaign comes around. Not only did Cobb, Collins and Wheat show their n-J.anci!ig age in t heir play, but th've is a general feeling feel-ing that a siwrabundance of managerial mana-gerial timbvron the team handicapped it in tht ItrjT drive the most disappointing disap-pointing season that the likable Connie Con-nie Mack has ever bad to suffer, 1 writes Norman F.. Brown, in the Atlanta At-lanta Constitution. Cobb, Collins und Wheat are all rated as brilliant baseball men. Cobb and Collins had served as managers. Wheat had often piloted the Brooklyn club for periods at least. All are capable teachers, as far as actually imparting the fine points of the game is concerned. In addition to these players, Connie had, as aides, the veteran Kid Glea-son Glea-son and Earl Mack, Conine's son. Gleason served long and ably as White Sox pilot. Mack, Jr., has managed man-aged minor league clubs and has been chief adviser to his dad. The feeling is general that the net result of all I his pedagogical talent on the team was a confusion of instructions instruc-tions and a consequent confusion and uncertainty in the general play of most of the other members. As one well-meaning critic remarked to me: "Imagine so-and-so at b:t, with Cobb, Collins and Mack all trying try-ing to tell him what to do." Now this may be overstating the matter a bit, but it conveys the impression. im-pression. But one feature of the Athletics' play proved satisfactory to Connie the past season the baiting. The Mack-men Mack-men had a .300 hitting club, and ivlth better defensive play all around might have lived up to the expectations of 75 per cent ef the critics and so-called critics. |
