Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1910 — CONNIE MACK IS GREAT LEADER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CONNIE MACK IS GREAT LEADER

Connie Mack ami Frank Chance will each be given a much higher rating as a manager by the baseball public than was accorded to either in 1909, but neither has shown qualities as an organizer, disciplinarian or general that he did not exhibit during the preceding pennant race in landing his team in second place. Chance has won a pennant with every major league team of which he has been in charge except in 1905 and in 1909. The Cubs of 1905 lost the services of the lamented Selee, In mid-season and Chance, his successor, established his reputation as a leader by securing third place. New York won, with Pittsburg as the runner-up. The Athletics have made a creditable record during Philadelphia’s membership in the American league, but Mack has never been able to win two successive flags. In 1901, the Initial season of the American league, the Athletics finished fourth. The White Sox carried off .the honors of the year. In 1902 the team that McGraw dubbed the “White Elephants,”

finished first. Boston beat them out in 190? and in 1904 Philadelphia tumbled to fifth place. In the next race, the Mackmen qualified as the American league’s representative in the first world’s series conducted under the aaspices of the National Commission, but were decisively defeated by the New York Giants, and were shut out in four of the five games. Bender blanked the Giants in his team’s lone victory. The gameness of the 1910 Athletics has been proved and those who earlier in the race taunted them as quitters and predicted that they would not stand the Btrain, have been silenced by their sustained steadiness at all stages of the campaign. Most of the veterans are still in ( line. Coombs, Bender, Plank and Morgan are considered the big four of the Athletic artilerists, but none but Mack knows who will be his slabmen in the world’s championship series. It Is possible that Krause may he specially prepared for these engagements.

Manager Connie Mack of Athletics.