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Show GREATEST BASEBALL LEADER V .i" 'Alii .. Jm Cornallua MoOllllcuddy, National league world a rhamplona have paaaad for tha day, and American Amer-ican league champlona now are poa-aeaaed poa-aeaaed of tha hlgheat honor In professional profes-sional baaeball. Connie Mack'a handa ar worthy banda In which to repoa th custody of thla glory, fur he la on of th safe men now connected with th game. Ha la atrlctly boneat, wise beyond bla generation, and a pur aportaman, write Jamea A. Hart, former for-mer prealdent of the Chicago National league club. In the Chicago Trlbun. Certainly th (oddea of fortune selected se-lected wlaaly when ah cboa thla long I bodied, long beaded gentleman to baron) ba-ron) th recipient of th world 'bluebell championship emblem. Mack' plan of developing young playere Into a championship tram la In my opinion lb proper on, for II makea tha player realise more fully that ha la really and truly a part of th team rather than If bla releaa bad been purchaaed from aome other club whoae manager had given him tha proper achoollng and to whom bo should feel obligated. 1)0 not for one moment permit yourself your-self to believe that thla unassuming down enat Yankee dooa not know and uae the trlcka of the game, for he la wlae and will turn any honest advan- tag that an umpire will allow wban hla team la to be benefited. It waa thla same Connie Mack, nee Cornellu McOllllruddy. who aa a catcher bark of th bat In the old days when a caught foul tip made an out. Invented and perfected th fake foul tip, or. In other word, could make a nola by anapplng hla finger agalnat bla mitt In a certain manner, or by ualng hla well trained llpa could emit a aound ao Ilk th nola of a foul tip that th umpire, who aa a general rule bad faith In Mack Innocence, would, upon Connl auppllratlon, call out th bataman, firmly believing that th ball had been a foul lip. Mack haa by eiample and advice been much to th player under him, for h la a man of perfect personal bablta, la of a moat kindly dlapoaltlon, and more than tolerant with th playing play-ing errors of bla men. Ha la of Scotch Irish extraction, born and reared In New England. He made hla flrat appearance In fast com pany In th Washington team when thut club waa a member of the National Na-tional league. He and hla favorite pitcher they used to go In palra In Uioae days (jllmore by name, came to Waahlngton as a battery In the 80a. |
