| Show SPORT LIGHT achen are impoverished bunch by GRANTLAND RICE to be hanging around hen connie mack had one of great teams the athletics ot of 1910 1914 he won tour four out of five pennants through that blazing march ile he had his famous infield now an bunch at least at present prices ojik I 1 recall that one colassi of th the main reasons tind rice connie broke up ills his chant nt squad was lack of patron L he was aas barely breaking even ballplayers such as eddie col stuffy mcinnis jack barry wun baker eddie plank d bender nde and and jack coombs at toe one reason offered for r attendance was the fact that mack had a team that was en I 1 too good for business today elleve that the athletics of 1910 thild draw at least a in the small ball park but not not 40 years ago S so connie had to disband his itell fat squad collins left for the bite sox mcinnis went to itts burgh barry moved to bos agn 1 most of them were seat scat aed cd over baseballs map iv ive c 1 1 r rd d that conn connie sold a big rt 0 this squad q a wee because e of eady lily rumors in conne connection c tion with ahe 1914 world series ries w which the staves ms won in four straight tames cs ive never believed this 1115 is true connie simply had a tam un that draw up to I 1 playing ability at that I 1 time ime oday air mack has no such all array ray in place of a pennant ner er or a pennant contender he a I 1 cellar contender he is down the browns and white sox S so athletics are even further down dow 0 attendance figures ou II 11 dont run a big league ball today with a few thousand dol y your our scouting alone costs you at least these are figures big league owners give pay ay rolls have risen from in those days there enO 0 o tet ted Willi amses or iMag gios 1 I dont believe they tot much wagner ner and mathewson were 00 and men few got ver r joe jackson and ed ish sh jackson hit and d 11 w won 40 games picked up M 0 year one year their rage was under today her or a near busher can ick over si or a kid can t a to bonus re than tn wagner or mathew mathow on or alexander or cy young in 12 years or walter nion alack ack cant face the toll any longer ills his athletics must go overboard to someone else this year ear mr macks alks will be the most disastrous financially he has ever known A strange career connie mack has been the living proof of what can happen in base ball he has won nine P pennants en nants 11 my figures are correct he has fin dished last 18 16 times when he had fine material he won flags when he had poor mate rial he finished last no one can say that connie mack alack been a fine manager one of the best ile he knew ballplayers ile he knew how to run teams lie he knew how to handle men but he never knew enough to lift poor material out of last place look at his record ills his one weakness was lack of a big bank roll when this 1950 season opened his year with the athletics he had taint faint dreams of first place taint faint dreams but possible pos sibie dreams lie ile had bad definite dreams of finishing in the first division dh islon these dreams were based upon high g grade r ade pitching headed by brissae and kellner Kell ncr A also s 0 the addition oi of dillinger Dilling cr the first thing thine that collapsed was his pitching itching staff then the ire rest s t of his team followed the big hop flop connie mack has always been a sportsman and a gentleman but baseball is a matter of winning or losing material nothing else ills his 1950 team his final dream of amov ing up with mcgraw as a 10 time pennant winner is already over the other boston team back last march when the mock ing birds were singing on the west wesl coast of florida the team given the best chance to win a pennant was the red sox rated about level with the dodgers it want the braves who were shoved in well back of the dodgers the cardinals and the phil lies yet it hy has been the other boston team not the red sox that has been in the thick of the perman pennant scramble all the way the braves are arc an odd outfit they are seventh in billing batting below the reds an and pirates they are just a bare notch above aboc the lie cubs they are arc suppose supposed to have hac kept their place through the lie pitching of sain spahn and bickford hut but spahn has lost about as many games as lie he his has won at this his spot you have hae to give more than nor mal credit to billy South southworth wor th who keeps his clubs shooting a at t the top no matter where he wo works k s southworth Is a great leader ile he is also a close inspector of details |
