The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-26
CLARK GRIFFITH
PROVES A WINNER
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Clever Baseball Genera! Gives
Cincinnati Fast Ball
Team.
HIS YOUNGSTERS DEVELOP
THROUGHOUT THE SEASON THE
REDS HAVE KEPT UP IN FIRST
DIVISION AND SHOW GRIT AND
ABILITY.
HIS YOUNGSTERS DEVELOP

Cincinnati, O.. Sept. 25.-For mayor
OF Cincinnati. Manager Griffith. That's
the way the fans down here feel about
"Griff,' even though he has not given
the city a champion team in the first
year of his local managership.
"Griff' took a bunch of youngsters
this spring and welded them into a
first division club right off the reel.
His success was unexpected outside OF
Cincinnati and some other places
where he was well known.
The average critic on looking over
the lineup of the Reds early in the
season and noting the great number
OF young and unknown players, natur-
ally relegated the club to low posi-
ton in the race. "They may develop
in time, but they can't make any kind
of a showing this year" was the al
most universal commtnt.
Old Fox Grin Fools 'Em.
But Griff thought differently, and
he bent his energies to fooling the
wise critics. His success is now rec
0gnized, and his methods are approved
by all who are familiar with them.
Griff is tireless worker and man
who devotes his entire time and at
tention to winning each game of ball
as 1t comes along. Nothing satisfies
him but success. He is absolutely
thorough and conscientious in all his
work. If he makes any mistakes they
are of the head. and not Of the heart.
His one idea is to give Cincinnati
a winning team, and he has done bet
ter in his year of incumbency than
numerous previous managers who
were more highly tonted when they
came here. Griff will be here next
season, with bells on, and every
thinking fan is glad of 1t, for it is a
cinch that no effort will be avoided
that will tend to put the Reds higher
In the race than they are this year.
Griff was fortunate in having on his
list a bunch Of young players who are
ambitious to succeed. and who invar-
iably give him the best assistance
or shirkers in the Red lineup. This
bunch Of kids has gone through ma
jor league campaign, most of them
for the first time, without weakening
or showing the white feather. no mat
ter how strong the opposition.
Youngsters Make Good.
It is remarkable thing, when you
stop to think Of it, that only two Of
the regulars were ever in the big
league before this season. Lobert and
Mitchell are comparatively young
players. too. the former having been
in the National league three years
and the latter only two before this
season. All the others are green and
new to the majors, and yet they have
beaten out teams like Philadelphia.
composed of star players and touted
during the last winter as a pennant
probability, and Brooklyn, with lot
OF experienced and high class mater
ial, badly handled.
In Hobby. Bescher and Egan, Grin
found three young stars ready to his
hand. Hobby is only 81 years old and
yet he has been playing as good ball
as any first baseman in the league
and hitting like a Wagner. He is a
lad of good habits and much ambition
and he will be the best first baseman
in the business next year, If nothing
happens to him.
Develops ~ Cobb?
Bescher. who was carried q while
~ substitute. demonstrated as soon
as he had an opportunity that he
would be regular. He is now the
only rival of Ty Cobb as q base run
ner. and will lead the National league
in that important feature of the game.
Grin has turned him around left
handed at the bat, which Is the way
Bob ought to hit, and he is already
showing improvement In his batting.
Now that the club Is at home he
will put In the morning every day
practicing at the left-hand style, and
he will start next season in fine form.
ers that has been developed this year,
with strong and accurate arm. a
great pair of hands on ground balls
and a good batting eve. Downey, who
Is playing his first year at the short
field, having previously been second
and third baseman; Cakes. who has
been hampered by accident and i'll.
ness. and George Paskert will be bet.
ter than ever next season, and the
Reds will start with much brighter
prospects than ever before.
All the members OF the team are
good actors. keeping IN shape at al
times and anxious to do their best
work for the club. That Is Why they
have won 50 many games on the road
this year. A team Of careless actors
always falls down when away from
home. but the Reds have done Just as
well on foreign fields AZ they have
On their own lot, which Is the best
kind Of sign