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Show I MANAGERS DO MORE THAN GIVE ORDERS The fan who believes that a baseball base-ball manager's duty consists merely In giving orders Is away off the track That is only a small part of the arduous ardu-ous tasks and one which causes the smallest amount of worry On nearly everj team there is B jball player with a "temperament." as it has In these enlightened days come to be called. In the olden days , it was referred to plainly and simph las a "queer streak." hut b what- I ever name it is known such players are difficult to manage. John McGraw has two or three I such individuals on his New York roster, notable among them being 1 Rube Marquard and Arthur Shafer Charley Dooln has two In Earl Moor1 I and Sherwood Magec. John Evers has at least one In Helnie Zimmerman. HuglKy Jennings has his burden to bear In dealing with Tyrus Raymond Cobb. It usuallv happens that the "temperament "tem-perament " does not show itself until after the player has acquired more or j le6s of a reputation following one or two superlatively good seasons on the diamond, for the very good reason that an erratic outburst would not be tolerated for a moment from a mediocre medi-ocre performer. Evers is haing the time of his life I trying to keep Zimmerman within I bounds Whether Zim or Evers i& most to blame is an open question. j but the fact remains mat .nerp it 1 iriction between them and that it is not doing the I hicago team any good McGraw had his troubles with Marquard Mar-quard before the season opened, but the Rube appears to have settled down now That Is well, for Shafer has taken his place as the cut-up kid. and McGraw is worried lest some morning he will awake to find that the coast lad has actually embarked for the Pacific slope Do the fans know the reason for the outbreaks of these players? Well, the hero worship given players is largely responsible Some of these fellows, possessing no prize-winning I amount of gray matter, become rank 1 goti8tfl after the patrons of the sport have fawned upon them for a few months and imagine that they arc-greater arc-greater than the club which employt- j them They try to prove It by dis-regarding dis-regarding and dlsobeing orders, and I then comes the showdown. |