The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-01
'MUGGSY' HAS UNIQUE
BASEBALL METHODS
Manager of Giants Restores
Life TO Team in Strange
Manner

NEW YORK, Nov 30.-Polities and
gossip win disrupt baseball team more
quickly than anything else.
When the Giants were in PiItsburg last.
season McGraw noticed that there was
bad feeling in the team. The men stood
in little knots in the hotel corridor glow
ering at other players; they rode to the
field in a bus without exchanging word;
the preliminary practice, usually so bril-
liant, was dull and Hfeless. This worried
McGraw, and he could not account for it
until week later. in Chicago, when,
learning the reason, he proceeded to rein.
ject that esprit de corps by a measure so
drastic that it Mortified bail patrons all
over the country, who, however, thought
1t merely an incident of the brutality OF
ball players. Instead of that. it was the
well planned scheme of a crafty general.
Fred Clarke, captain and manager of
the Pirates three-time champions, owns
professional baseball about ten years, and
is an active. powerful and shrewd sfrate-
gist.
Giants, is said to be the highest priced
backstop in America. During the winter
he lives in his lumber camp in the wildS
of Michigan, fishing, hunting, chopping
down trees, and otherwise fortifying an
already rugged strength by open air ac--
tiyity.
On account of split thumb. Bowerman
a
first day at Pittsburg, Jack Warner taxi
ing HIS place behind the bat to catch
Mathewson. At the hotel that night Fred
Clarke was au9ted iI as saylhg SaSage fnat
was catching there. that run would never
have come in. This, of course, was
tantamount to Bowerman's asserting his
superiority over Warner, a boast that ball
players are rarely guilty Of -
.sDid you make that crack?" McGraw
asked a week later, when the team had
f1<,J tQ(TTy( al
na Mack N protested m the big catcher,
"that's the meanest lie that ever was
told. and told Jack Warner SO; but he
I All right. said McGraw That's all
that / wanted to know. Now. just keep
quiet and do the best you can till we ger
Frank, have you got a good right
swing?'' The Michigan luInberrnan smiled
grimly, and clinched fist knotted ana
it's Up to you then, advised McGraW,
"to put life into the team. Don't lose any
time
Boyerman understood
1.I'd like to speak to you a minute, ne
said to Clarke as the Pittsburg captain
was passing through the gate On his way
to the club house; Iney fen went @ lnio berdIy div
room to swing cat. Three times Bow
ernan demanded an explanation, Offering
to bring McGraw and warner as. as VII
iieslJi Az pig8t ad then said Bowerman;
there's Just two of us here. Fred and
wei fight 1t out. Put up your hands.
While thousands were bundling through
the gates. madly rushing for seats, the
MICHIGAN lumberman and the Kansas
farmer were raining blows on each other
that nearly rocked the box office off Its
foundations Clarke went down three
times. and finally admitted he had enough.
The Giants played that day. TO use the
expression of a rooter, as though they
were fighting their weight in wild cats
other with pet names, and walked low
ingly from the victorious field arm in arm.
while Fred Clarke was buying pound OF
raw beef.
.srheres more than one way said Nc
Graw. lightly, when reporters questioned
him about the Incident, ..of putting life In
a ball game. =