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Needham quotes Connie as follows:
nntnn annfh nnft anrinc I took
auito a- fancy to a youngstpr'who was
to be tried out. I liked bla looks and
i liked bis line of talk above alii
liked his high spirits; Seemed to me
that he would be ttiere ngnung n
the time -never downv in the mouth
and ready to quit.
"So, having taken ''such a fancy to
him, I began to pry into his private
life, a little, but in such a way as to
make him see that I was you know
r-txnUv ini-ArGstp.fi in him. not mere
ly curious about his own affairs.
iit'i ij ie u ,1nnnlr Woll fVinf
l 'linjuireu il no maun., m , vM"
young fellow was frank and above.
boafd about it. Said he took a drink
Anna in a while a glass of beer occa
sionally, sometimes -a whiskey; but
alui68t always" he drank to;be sociable
-tb be a'gobd, fellow -- ;
; '.'Do.yjqiL ever go-a whie' without
drinking?" I asked him;
, " 'ure,' he exclaimed.-'Sometimes
I go 1:wo weeks or a month witliout
faking a" drink.'
''Don't you miss it?" I asked him.
"-'Not. a bit: never- miss it -at all,'
"I kept quiet a few- minutes. Then
I -came at the youngster itnis , way;
'Of course
your
anything
nk mp n limit, vmi. nf p.nursfl I
not ring in exceptions I'd have to
say you drink.' Here I stopped, to
let it sink in,rthen ;I went .on:
" 'Nowr so,,long 43, you. don't miss
it when you're not taking it, if I were
you .I'd, .think At oyer and .4ecde
whethrVnit'hev.fdHnklhgr was worth
classing yoursel&'witUi.those' who do
drinR-wtth. ' those' who' qant get
along yitiioutie stuff; f- :;, -ix
" Say, l''in;'twd days lhat youngster
came to1 me and said: 'Mr.. Mack, if
r .drink
not
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Dp Myftu think best. But, if. it Wpra
ae, I'd die before I took a drink
Dp
me,
.- - xio ipoitea at me, saw I tvas in
dead earnest, andald: 'No drink fop
me, Connie.' .,
'Saylie wasn't in bed the next
day; he was inihe.game. I put him
in to ,help start oiir scoring machine
He stole second at a critical moment
of-the game, which a slow-thinking
slow-acting man. couldn't have done
against Archer. And he brought in
the first run pt the rally that cinched
the world's tjftle-all without his
drink." .
Quick thjijlclng', quick acting by
men who nearly always measure up
to IdO nor cent of efRciRnnv la ,
secret of Athletic success, according
to the temperate Connie, and this
efficiency, he maintain, results from
the right order.of" living.
There is no 'nightlife" among the
Athletics, -'i-here- are no "sports" in
his crowd, sayu 'the-ihanager, and
every one of "his men -is expected to
lead a clean life. M ' v
And while knocking the booze
game- and the -, "sport" life which
sends nlayjers late to bed and makos
then tardy Jn their . rjslng,, Cornelius
a fellow and tries to talk him out of
getting marrieti, "even if he is a
youngster malcing a .comparatively
small salary. If: T raak'e np my mind
that the 'girl's all, Jriglti,.,I-rI,enc.our-age
him to go'afread and hitch, up for
lifer GoodTvJvBS have a;Btrong in;flu.
ence on ,hih-3tr.Ung .'I&alt players.
They help theirhusbands to think
quick, because ,t!heyr help then! to live
clean. ' Nebraska State, ,' Journal..
Did you over know .that Mqlnnis,
pjjjbfflns'i Barry and - Baker, . that
Mfanjous $100,000 infield of... the
WiMfe champion Athletics, ; never
iUavfl4Jikuowu the taste of 'Ja.lcoliolic
oliqiibrb'? , -..... .
'.nl-ij0 yo1 ever know' thaV Connie
L'Jtfack,- -the manager, of,. the world's
'(champlons, can, at a moment's--notice
ofii'fie first-string moa'.ph.iMibl'field
a who mover- took a drink in all their
. wieso revelations ayomad'olu an
oartlcli by Harry Boach Needham in
r,ar May-magazine article., ftds-an in
'terview with Connie Mack, -whose
Philadelphia Americans,' duririg' the
'thirteen years of their existence,
jiWUtrou8ht home five peimants
apndi-.three world's- championships.,
t ' :;.,Gle,an living and quick .thinking,"
I "the title of the Needham article,
ijlt.tottsnt first hand right from the
I Vman who knows all about it how a
I system of right living makes the real
... champion ball player.
1 It is a story with a fine moral. It's
i '"about baseball, but it can be well ap
i plied, to. almost any walk of life.
i Mack, the master of the diamond J
s opens up ms neart and soul and dU
. vulges the secrets which have caused
so' much speculation for these many
yearn.
"It was directly after the world's
championship had been won by the
Athletics for tho third time a
record that a broad-minded news
panor editor, who is hnrdlv t ho
. classed as a baseball fan," says Need-
nani, "remarked that Connie Mack
. had more influence with the youth of
America than any other man he
. could name,
" 'All over the country,' said the
editor, 'mothers are telling their boys
that if they want to stand high in
sport, if they aspire to be champions,
they must not drink they must lead
clean lives. Tho victory of Mack and
his team is a triumph for clean liv
ing. Asked for an explanation as to the
consistent classshown by thVcliam
pion. Athletics, Mack said: .
'"fhave Lco.me to tlip. conclusion that
the pontinued ' clai& B.liown,'. by 'the
Athletics" can be- put ' downt--if you
wMt ,to" in a, sentence,, tight 'over the
plate-r-to , clean living arid.qiiTck
thinking. ' , " ' . v.
""And .without the one you cVn't
have the other the quicks thinking.
?Wr?ls nothing to that. Temperance
is a fine thhigrarid, don't get the
wrong angleonthat'temperancei .. For
one' thing, It hnnlles 'lust, ni-mn t
ohHtio-. tn'rl 'P 'l.-'" 'V sV'.i.-..'. .
players of the last ten-years ate 'his
way out of the Americari' league. If
you think that's far-fetched remem
ber that a former citizen of my home
tp,wn, Ben Franklin, spoke of men
wh0, -dus theip graves with; their,
teeth. I would raalce the guess that
more folks die from over-eating than
from starvation that Is, in
America.' ,
The master of the diamond then
.Cieeds to speak more specifically
ui l.U UUU6B,
Who puts the ball player out of
the game? You would naturally say
the umpire, wouldn't you? Well, all
the umpires together haven't put as
miaLbalUlayQrs out ? the game as
Old Man Booze.
f i.No5' d(?n,t .set off on th wrong
foot. Boozing is not common among
the highgrade ball players. It was
common twenty years ago, but today
It Is rare n the majors boozing.
Keep in mind, though . il.
moderate drinking gets a ball player
in the end, 3un'. as sure as boozing.
Alcohol slows a man down Inevitably
and slowing down is the reason for
the shelving of by far the majority
of players. If you estimate a clever
Player s years in baseball at fifteen
E mode,:aton linking will cut off
nf J h00 J? flve 2,? ird of. his
life of the diamond."
Mack's method In dealing with a
youngster is best illustrated by a
single example which he cited Mr
'
OuT'idea of 'busybody-is a person
.whP , onyinpelss ::that. .e 'are mis
taken abutQmegV-fe
Mack relates an rtteresliintf incident
relating to the- Svofld. series - wth the
CubsT'ijviien tte A;thletics"' von the
fihfimftftnsbiTi! HH-f irvii "the'-first, timn
PrioJ toHli5f;bpening. of -the series the
Athletics. wTere: called into" conference
by the bian'dgef and every man made
to pletlgife that he would not; under
any "cir.cunf stances, take a drink of
liquor- rof: anVykitid : u.ritll '.the Series
had ende.4 Mack,i'mpressed -jit" upon
them -tliat.;they would need 1.00 per
centlottheiifeftlciency ivj. rthis crucial
series Jihd'ftkat n.p-m'an nlUst fail.
'T Suggested," '.Maid;' Maqk,: v'that
every man on the squad who felt sure
that he could go without a drink, if
in the habit of drinking, was to say
so openly and before ;ub all. But any
man that wasn't donrl riita wna h
insist on having his drink and no-
uuuj, yyuo bwiub v" ueuy it 'to mm.
Around .the, room we wnt antl
every player promised. Of cours"e,
you understand that a number didn't
need to never tpuched it. '
"There was a star of the old Ath
leticswho was still with . us as
utility man. He seldpm got into
games, but was always ready and lie
made a valuable man to dp the coach
ing at thirdthe only place it counts
for anything. Up to the last game of
the series this player didn't handle a
ball or swlnK a bat. But ii a m
share of winning games on the coach
ing line. When the fourth game was
over the count was 3 to 1 in our
luvur-ne certainly was in bad
shape; had a fierce cold, could hard
ly speak above a whisper, and seemed
to be in for a Betto with the grip I
wasn't surprised to have him come
to me about himself. Near as I can
recall it our talk was like this:
"Connie, I'm a sick man. If I
don t take something to brace me up,
1 11 be In bed tomorrow.'
"'You mean, you want to take a
drink? I asked him.
"He acknowledged it."
" 'All right; go ahead,' I told him
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