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Show MAGNATES NEED TO LEARN LESSON j Though experience is about the best as well as the costliest teacher in this world-wide school of hard knocks, observation ob-servation is another teacher that can work great results with an apt pupil National league magnates, however., are cither very dull and slow pupils, or they aro completely blind to thcli surroundings. At Chicago. St. Louis, Cincinnati and Philadelphia the managerial situation has assumed a cast very much like r. Balkan war mnp. Trouble is written all over the affairs af-fairs of these clubs and success has been less than In former years. In Now York and Pittsburg. McGraw and Trod Cla'ko are given full sum of the direction of tho clubs and the; showing that has been made by them goes without saying. Look at Connlo Mack. Stahl, Griffith Grif-fith or at any of tho leaJing clubs and i it can be seen that the manager, un- ! hindered, has turned out a good ball club und in general is satisfying fans and owners alike. I3ul look at the meddlesome Charles Words Murphj, at Mrr,. Brltton in St. Louis, at the many who intorfere it Cincinnati and Philadelphia and it can likewise be easily seen that only a miracle could succeed in producing a winner at any of these cities with all the obstacles that are placed in a manager's way. When a man is In a business thr.t is alive with competition he generally watches the other fellow and is awake to all his moves and advantages. Ho vill make use of his competitor's methods and try to Improve thorn if they are successful but certain National Na-tional league magnates have apparently appar-ently forgotten eerything else in the world but themselves and that is the first thing they should have chucked from their memory. |
