Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — MANAGER HUGGINS DOES NOT REALIZE WORTH OF POPULARITY AND PUBLICITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MANAGER HUGGINS DOES NOT REALIZE WORTH OF POPULARITY AND PUBLICITY

There is no keener ctndonf ip h»isolmll_tJian_Mlller Huggins, zna nager of the New York American league team. He constantly is thinking out plays, and tries to imp(ant his ideas on the men he commands. Hi* is a clever judge of pitchers, and though he always played thc intl.-M, he can teach a young pitcher more than the average retired star moundsman. Not Popular With Fans. Despite his success here, it nevertheless is true that Huggins has not won a great deal of popularity in New Y.ork.- complains a-New.York crltic. ile has_ L3*flWi jtMWy ofjjjiiis nStiity, him - Hko they d<i for McGraw or like tliey did for some of his numerous predecessors. particularly Clark Griffith and Bill Donovan. Huggins largely is to blame for tlie fact that he has not won more popularity in New York. He discounts both popularity and publicity. Despite the fact that he is one of the smartest men that everYrod on a ball field, and is a lawyer in the bargain, he does not seem to realk&eAehat assets popularity and publicity can be to a successful manager; Lets Huston Do Mixing. He is willing to let the congenial “Cap” Huston do all the mixing for the club. There perhaps never was a club in which there was greater intimacy between the owners and baseball writers than there is between Ruppert and Huston and the New York Chapter of Baseball Writers, yet on the other hand, few managers are as distant from the men who write -of the exploits of their team as Huggins.

Hard-Working Leader of New York Yankees.