Show Managers Release Baseball Secrets I Leaders Backward In Making Predictions for New Campaign By Dy GEORGE CIL Special Correspondent spon mt of or Tho The Standard mIner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association NEW V TE YORK April ANIl 2 Among Amon Among the tho canny end and conservative managers ers In baseball count Con Cn Connie nie nb Mack and John J. J McGraw IcOra Confidence may be oozing front from their pores and brain cells but they dont don't make mako a habit of ot Issuing rosy statements as to their pen pen- pennant pennant nant neat chances When hen most managers In the major leagues have havo had five the years of experience they are loath to make predictions about chant cham Now o and there is 18 one who becomes enthusiastic ove oval his players If It they fall to todo todo todo do as well as ho he thinks they should he may ma become depressed but seldom discouraged It Is III wonderful to have a II disposition like that especially If It you ou aro are the custodian ot of a perennial tall tali Before Defore the season of ot 1926 be began be be- began gan Connie Mack tack was asked what he thought of ot his chances All the boys had been predicting a II pennant for the Philadelphia Ath Ath- Connie looked at the sky and then at the ground l. l I 1 dont don't like them he ho said sald with abrupt frankness They dont don't please me lIe Ho had them right This year ear ho he was asked again what he ho thought of or his hiLs l team MACK SPEAKS Sl Well ell he said laid with the ora l gravity ty of a dean I seo things in them that look good to me mite I think we wo have pitching That Is a great groat deal for Connie Mack to say sa McGraw never said he would win a a. championship Now and then ho he has hall said that lie thought he had a good team Ho lie said it itIn ItIn it itin In 1926 but tho the boys bos played him hint cruel Ho He thinks t it again this year car He Ho Is 13 quite confident that he has hns a better team cant than tItan In 1925 1926 But he doesn't say offhand off that ho he will wili win a pennant Rogers Hornsby said the St. St Louis Cards of otI 1926 G had a 0 chance to win the pennant He kept his slogan going going- and whether he be believed be be- believed It or not he be Impressed it iton It iton on his players Ask Bob OFarrell OFarrell rell tell what he be thinks of ot his chances this year and he suggests that he heIs heIs heIs Is about as well oft off as Hornsby was lAst Lost spring Miller Huggins said he thought he had a 1 good team and about experts rose up and remarked that Huggins was the champion self kidder of or the world Then the Yankees went out and andon won on the pennant and since that time these same annie experts have been telling the world that th Huggins Is I leading a forlorn hope in 1927 Hug plods along and says sas They cant can't kid me and I cant can't kid my my- myself self I know what I need and Im I'm going to try to get gel it by July 15 16 Arthur Fletcher was managing the Phillies last year ear and hens heas he ns asked as to his pennant chances Stop your our kidding me he re re- re plied Stuffy was asked what he thought of ot the Phillies this year ear Im young and shy was the reply Give Ghe me time to get acclimated Take Washington Clark Grif Grit Griffith Griffith thought he had a fair team in 1926 Well make a n come come- comeback comeback back ho said after Washington had been licked in the 1925 25 world series surles But the comeback back fired This year he Its was sure that he was in the thick of the custard pie two weeks ago and since Inca then the Jinx has swept and bunged up almost all nil of ot his players including Walter Johnson The goods are there thore Griff says als but bu t who Mho h 0 mailed me that that black hand 7 BANCROFT PATIENT P. r Davy y Bancroft hoped for good fortune for forthe the Boston Daves Bayes in 1926 and Davy Da DaIS Is patient this year ear and Is still sun hoping for tor good fortune Undo Uncle Wilbert Robinson thought he had a working team In 1926 This spring the Brooklyn pilot flatly announced to the wide world that he Ito has a rotten team cain as a a. team cain There are arc spots in it that arc are covered with jelly j jell lh and others has eaten through The leader of ot the St. St Louis Browns In 1926 was wu George Sis Sis- let fer- er He almost blushed when anyone asked him about his team This year ear Dan Rowley Howley Is la the prophet Says Says- o Dan If It I get geta a good team out of ot the Browns In three years ears T r ahall h have done something But Dut maybe maybn fate will help me a little this year Tris Speaker did not pin his faith to a pennant in tho the spring of 1926 G because he did 11 not know ow what whet his players might bring forth He did pin a lot to the pitchers and they came through for fur him Jack 1 11 Iste r. r who runs things now for tor Cleveland has all the anxiety of a a. manager who Is In for the first time I spend all my spare time looking for a leaf four clover er said Jack That all I have havo to tosa say sa about a pennant I have been a II member of at a at pennant t team and I would be glad to rejoin the tho lodge said Ray Schalk of or the Chicago Amen Ameri cans Darn It It It if so much hadn't happened I used to ask other managers what they thoy thought of ot their pen pen- pennant p n. n nant pant chances said Id George Mon Mori anity of ot Detroit Geo Gee I know now how it pulled their teeth Ive I've got a D. good ball club club- Just the same saute I said eald that we wo had little hope when I started with tho the Cubs In 1926 and anI sinCe sin then Ive I've been picking hope out of ot every ev r bush bushI I 1 could find and e I got a lot of ot it it for 1927 Joe McCarthy a R. rank ranI progressive voiced that for forthe forthe the he Chicago o Cubs Pennant 7 said ald Donle Bush Dush the Pittsburg pilot I am anti so 80 much in admiration of ot my team of ot ball baI players that I cant can't find room In my mouth for tor other words If It I could win a a. pen pen- pennant pennant nant In my first nut year y ar in the Na Na- lionel league Id I'd go 10 Homo home and hang nj my amy parlor p with horseshoes in gilt SIlL frames |