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Show II MANAGERS I FOR 1913 Matty Thinks Nationals Have Something on, The American Leaders I (By Monty.) New York. Feb 1 Our old friend Christopher Mathewson holds the opinion that the National league managers man-agers of 1H13. if anything have little lit-tle somerhlng on the eight men who will lead the different American league dubs In a brief talk the other oth-er day he took the stand that Joe Tinker, at the helm of the Cincinnati Rfds. and Johnny Evers. leading trw Chicago Cubs would both provo greater great-er pilots than their former boss. Frank Chance, and that George Stal lings would be a howling success in Boston and Hucsins In Si Louie, also that Bill Dahlen would have more luck . with Brooklyn this year. Then: (TBI not time enough to go into the thln; deeply, but we informed Mattey that we could not agree with him as to the comparative abilities of the chlef-talni chlef-talni In the two circuits and told him that his honest loyalty to his own league made him prejudiced. American Pilots Experienced. In one thing particularly the American Am-erican league pilot have an advantage, advan-tage, considered altogether Every one of them had big league managerial manager-ial experience last year, including th only man new to the organization. Frank Chance. Stovall of the Browns. Birmingham of the Cleveland. Jon nings of Detroit, Callahan of Chicago, Stah! of Boston Griffith of Washing- j ton and Mack of the Ath'eties all are at the posts they held down when the 1912 season closed, and Chance who comes to New York, was the leader of the Cube Connie Mack, by the way. is the only American manager thai Matty can "see" as a high calibre leader, the success of Jake Siahl be ing blame entirely on his star play Matty's Oplon of Chance Matty regards Frank Chance, the only American league newcomer, as a man who Is a great leader of a team I already welded together, but says Ihcre is nothing to show thai Chance has any constructive ability A bri f period of reminiscence would recall thai Chance built Jimmy Archer Into, I the greatest catcher the game possesses, pos-sesses, that ho made a first rate su c-essor to himself at the Initial sack 'in young Victor Saier, that he turned I Heinle Zimmerman a mediocre utll ity player into a rattling third banc man and the heaviest hitter in the i league that the year previous he developed de-veloped a raw youngBter. Jimmy Doyle, into a Btar third baseman, oniv to be cut short by death, and that just last year he developed two slat" voting pitchers In Jimmy Lavender and Larry Cheney Enough for Chance's constructive ability Jennings as a Leader. No matter who may dispute it, there Is no cine bin proving the assertion thai Hughey Jennings Is not a top notch leader. Jennlnga was able to drive the Detroit Tig'-rs Into three successive American league pennants, filling the entire interval between the triumph of Fielder Jones' old Chlcu go While Sox and the first success of the thletlc8. True enough. Jennings had his troubles last year, with the strike of his plnyera a most difficult problem But It will be recalled how he whipped them into line finally and now has rid his team of the last trouble trou-ble maker in passing alone Davy Jones after letting Delehanty go last vear I Stovall' Worth. George Stovall has proved his worth (already and has built up a highly I promising bunch of youngsters in the brief time he has been at St Louis I Stovall also achieved tho unusual in pulling the Browns out of the cellar j last year, and previous to that, at i Cleveland, he sent the Naps from ' nothing up to the first division in half 'of the season of 1911, after succeed Ing Deacon Tim McGulre. And the na ture of that feat is reflected by the I dismal failure of Harry Davis, who j followed him. Joe Birmingham who took the reins after Davis' profession al demise as a manager, proved him jself by getting the team up higher th;in the much touted Athletic veteran vet-eran was able to and he seems to be of the rinht sort of stuff Stahl and Griffith. It seems odd how nnyone can fail to give credit to Jake Stahl and Clark Griffith for landing their teams j first and second respectively last year. However, they do not need I verbal credit to any great amount when they ran stand on such records ;Tben Jimmy Callahan does not need to argue much to hold his station with the hlte Sox He has kept his men : very much in the hunt now for two ears. though they failed to land on ! the pinnacle either time |
