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Show I BRAINS ARE PRIME REQUISITE IN MANAGERS OF BIO LEAGUE TEAMS Rowland of Chicago White Sox Is Only Manager of Sixteen, Not a Former Big League Player List of Pilots and Their Former Positions. (By Hal Cady) NEW YORK, March 21 - -In the do-ivelopnipnt do-ivelopnipnt of a championship team l the part of tho manager should not be underestimated. A careful look ttl tho chiefs of tho great general staffs in the campaigns this season is there-I there-I fore quite in order. Wo find that out of the sixteen National and American league man-'agers man-'agers this year only one (Clarence Rowland, of the Chicago White Sox) is not a former big league player. ' The other fifteen have good records in fast company. But brains are the prime requisite In a manager. Clarenco may not be I the worst manager of the season at i When Owner Comiskey engaged Rowland two years ago the general public knew little of the new man-ager. man-ager. whose most important position until then had been in a minor league Comiskey stacked his cards on Rowland Row-land because he believed this young man knew baseball. And Rowland has a fine personality for a leader. He is cool and inspires confidence. He isn't too proud to take advice con-Ftantlv con-Ftantlv from two men Comiskey himself once a star first baseman, f and Eddie Collins, veteran captain of the team. Comiskey waa the leader of trie four-timo champion Browns in the American association. Then he man-aged man-aged tho Cincinnati Reds, and finally he captured the first American league I pennant with the While Sox in 1900. Comiskey hasn't lost confidence in his choice of Rowland through tho failure of the White Sox to win pen-j nants last year and the year before. I He bel loves Rowland profits by his mistakes and is today a greater leader than ever. Rowland has his team working evenlv and smoothly. He doesn't be-lieve be-lieve in the big stick. He is willing to talk over suggestions of grievances! with anybody. Besides the two raen-1 tioned his chief advisor is Kid Glea-son, Glea-son, team coach Opponents of the I White Sox have to biu k the combined , Rowland - Comiskey - Collins - Gleason 1 brain power, and this is nothing to turn up your nose at. ! Taking up the other fifteen major li league managers, it is learned that six were catchers, four pitchers, four infield men and one an outfielder on I major league teams. The backstops arc Mack, of the Ath-I Ath-I lot ics ; Stallinga, of the Braves; iMltchell. of the Cubs. Robinson, of i the Brooklyns; Fohl, of the Cleve-lands, Cleve-lands, and Moran, of the Phillies. The former twirlers are Mathew-iaon, Mathew-iaon, of the Reds; Donovan, of the Yankees; Callahan, of the Pirates, 'and Griffith, of the Washlngtons. The only playing manager this season sea-son la Barry, of the Red box. who will cover second base. John McGraw. of the Giants, and llughle Jennings, of the Tigers, play-d play-d third base and shortstop respectively respec-tively for the Baltimore Orioles a score of years ago. Hugglns, of the Cardinals, was their regular second baseman up to last season. Fielder Iones, of the Drowns, is remembered as tho coutro-fioldor-manager of the Champion White Sox in 1906. Mack caught for Washington rind later for Pittsburgh. Stalling performed per-formed behind the bat for Brooklyn ; in 1890. Mitchell caught for the I Yankees In 1910. and Moran was a ! Cub backstop tho -vi : - ar. Robinson Robin-son and Fohl were Oriole and Cleve-J Cleve-J land receivers respectively It Is scarcely necessary to recall Matty's record as a Giant pitcher, while Donovan was an efficient man in the box for the Tiger? and Callahan Calla-han twirled and Griffith twirled for ! the White Sox. It may be comfort to Rowland to learn that National league pennant ' winners have boon developed by four ; men who were never themselves star! i players. They were Frank Bancroft, Who handled the Providence team in 1884; W. H. Watkius, a manager ot the Detroits in 1887; James Mutrie pild of the Giants in 18S8 and 1889, and the late Frank G. Sellee, the greatest of them all. whose Bostons finished on top in 1891, 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898. To pursue our researches in baseball base-ball history still farther, the pennant winners in the National league since It started forty-one years ago have, been handled by seventeen managers,) While eight managers have champion-; ship teams to their credit In the seventeen sev-enteen years of the American league's life. In the National league Sellee. Anson. An-son. Hanlon and McGraw each won five pennants, and Fred Clarke and Frank Chance four each Connie Mack holds the major league and American League record with six j champion teams in Philadelphia. Prior to the formation of the National Na-tional league, Harry Wright man-1 aged four champion teams in Boston, i in 1872. 1873. 1874 and 1875, so that if those years are taken into consideration con-sideration his record equals Mack's. |