Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — CONNIE MACK IS CONFIDENT [ARTICLE]

CONNIE MACK IS CONFIDENT

Great Team in the Making, Says Athletic Leader—Disappointed in Showing of Recruits. “I have everything I own tied up In the Athletics, and am doing what I know is best. I believe I know the baseball business, and am coming back with a greater team than ever before.” That’s what Connie Mack says of his Athletics. “I don’t beljteite in building up a ball team as do, and therefore I care nothing about the charges made by critics. I have the foundation for a great club right now. “I admit that I am’disappointed at the showing of several of my recruits and a few of the veterans, but we have others coming who will fill the bill if these youngsters falL”