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Show Connie Mack Needs No Baseball Scouts at Present jRTHUR IRWIN, scout of the New York Americans, once mado tho famous remark that the day of tho scout would soon bo a thing of tho past for everj' joung player In tho country belonged to Connlo Mack. The gray haired spy was led to this fit of pessimism because in one week he looked over a half dozen callow youths, only to find, when he broached negotiations, that they belonged to tho tall tutor of Philadelphia- The long arm of Mack has assuredly assured-ly reached In all directions of the thirteen thir-teen original states and the other states that don't claim originality In tho Infant class a Sunday school, the deestrlck school, the prep school and tho colleges are jouthful absorbers of knowledge waiting for the magic day when 0, night letter reaches them saj'-Ing saj'-Ing "Roport at once, klddo Connlo Mack " Mr Mack prefers tho little red schoolhouse to the bush league, yet he is not insensible to the wealth of ore found on tho crossroads and minor Ieaguo teams Mr Mack can consult his files and find out how many hits Harry Krausemojer third baseman of tho Shlnehclmor. Kuppenklclster and Tappanhangcr's Sticky Fly Paper company's com-pany's team at Laxyvlllc. AJa., made last week. Connlo also can toll what team is leading in tho Sunday School league of Ingersoll Neb . and knows that Pagan, the Primitive Methodists' star pitcher, has a great drop and might bo worth a trial In 1913 or 1914 It Is a fact that Connlo Mack has any number of jouths planted who arc hardly old enough to leave their firesides fire-sides Two vears ago, at the ago of sixteen, a Philadelphia schoolboy signed sign-ed a contract to play with Mack. This tall tactician may wait two jears moro before ordering this Juvenilo south w 1th his team Peters, tho joung California first baseman, has been planted by Mack for several years For fear that ho might bo extradited to California on tho charge of kidnaping, Mack didn't daro order tho Infant to report until spring Mack has j'ouths planted for delivery de-livery in 1912, 1913. 1914 and 1915 Ho will call them as ho needs them, but every year he Is suro of a big squad of candidates in caso somo calamity strikes his team No manager In America looks as far ahead as the Athletics' mastor mind. Boseballdom thought It wonderful when Mack took a team of nobodies In 1909 and finished second to Detroit Fans that year tossed posies at Mack for getting a good team together so qulcklj. but they didn't know that Mack was planning for 1909 in 1907. Mack Is a baseball teacher as well as manager. In this ho has a great advantage over the majority of managers man-agers There arc few managers who can tako a raw ball plajer and mold him Into a star. Most big league managers man-agers expect their new men to bo almost al-most tho finished product from tho start How manj' managers havo released plajers with this statement: "Tho boy is promising enough, but ho lacks experience. ex-perience. Ho must be taught the ways of tho big league." This kind of manager man-ager hasn't tho patience nor the abllltj' to teach anvbodj' baseball. Mack nover released a promising 1911, Dy American Press Association. CONNIE MACK. Player in his life, but he has released scores of bad ball plajers. Mack doesn't believe that a player can be taught tho ways of the big Icagu-e on the Squashtown team. Ho keeps him at Shlbo park and teaches him himself. |
