Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1920 — LAUDS ROBINSON AS APPRECIATIVE CHIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAUDS ROBINSON AS APPRECIATIVE CHIEF

Konetchy Tells Why Brooklyn Players Like Leader. Big First Baseman of Dodgers Say* There Is No Secret About Success of Team—Credit for Winning Due to Manager. AH you have to do to start big Ed Konetchy, first baseman of the pen-nant-winning Robins to fanning, is to suggest the name of your Uncle WJI- - for conversation, Koney says: “Do you want to know the secret of Brooklyn's success last season? That's easy. It isn’t a secret at all. Just Robbie. That old scout can handle a hsll dub better than any man I ever saw. I have been cruising around in the National league for 14 years, and I have never come across a manager like Robbie until I joined the Brooklyn team. “Say, that guy knows how to slap a ball player on the back better than any man In the world. That stuff about the Robins being a happy family ain’t no kid. There Isn’t a man on it that doesn’t think Robbie is the greatest guy in the game, and that’s why they hustle for him. There are no factions in the club. In a game not long ago when I was lucky enough to tie up the score, with a home run, Robbie ran at me in the clubhouse after the game and gave me a wallop between the shoulder blades that near-

ly floored me. That was his way of telling me he appreciated that hit. “Maybe you think ball players don’t like that stuff. I’m telling you they do. Wilbert Robinson *ls the biggest hearted and most appreciative manager I ever worked for.”

Manager Wilbert Robinson.