Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — Connie Mack, Developer of Greatest Baseball Machine, May Retire as a Manager. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Connie Mack, Developer of Greatest Baseball Machine, May Retire as a Manager.

The retirement from baseball’s managerial ranks of Cornelius McGillicuddy, known to the sporting world as Connie Mack, is shadowed in the recent return to baseball of Harry Davis, long the lieutenant of Crafty Connie. Reports from Philadelphia say that Mack has tired of the task of managing a ball club and is about ready to devote his attention to the business end of the game. Davis Is to succeed Mack as boss of the Athletics on the field, the rumors go on. , Mack, the developer Qf the greatest baseban machine of recent years, if not the greatest of all times, seems destined to pass out of the managerial

ranks with a string of failures marring a record that had known nothing but success at Quakertown for fourteen years. Connie dismantled his great machine after losing the 1914 world’s series, and since that time he has been trying in vain to develop another winning combination. For four consecutive seasons Mack’s teams have finished in last place and the aggregation he is piloting this season promises no highera finish. Mack has been the directing head of the one team for a longer term of years than any other manager now in the game. Likewise, he has been handling ball clubs longer than any other pilot in the history of baseball'.

Connie Mack.