The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-14

born kind. His players expect a GER
tain amount of bawling out for every
misplay. and they get it, and them
some But when the game is over
whether it is won or lost-Chance is
sorry for what he said and shows it,
Other managers-Jennings is a nota-
BILE example-rely on the slap on the
back to keep the players fighting
Fielder Jones best stunt was to fight
the umpires to a finish. He had his
players thinking they were being rob-
bed all the while, and they go so mad
they fought to the last ditch.
John McGraw keeps the pot boiling
all the time, driving his men to their
best endeavor by making every game a
life and death grapple. In justice to
McGraw it should be said that a bet
ter loser never played the game. When
the last man is out "Muggsy" is first
in peace.
Lajoie, always the acme of grace, as
sumes an air of superiority and seems
to you; now deliver" Larry never does
the wrong thing in a game and his men
have their work cut out in following
his pace.
Joe Cantillon, perhaps the quickest
| in wit of any manager now in the
game, flags his players with sarcasm
often and so far hasn't obtained any
astonishing results, though he may not
| be entirely responsible for that
Clarke Has Few Words.
Fred Clarke of the Pirates rarely
says anything to his players on the
field, except words of exhortation and
! Clarke has been one of the most sue
cessful managers in having his team
up high in the race every year.
But getting results, which includes
| smoothing out all the wrinkles in a
teams esprit de corps, has it's funny
side as we'll as it's serious aspect, and
the manager without a sense Of humor
| is going to have an awful lot of hard.
One of the managers troubles is to
keep the players tempers at the right
ty hard, especially after star has
been too severely taken to task in
print. McGraw tells funny one on
raw recruit who broke into the game
several years ago in New York.
o. P. Kaylor, who died a few years
ago, was writing baseball for one of
the New York papers and panning a
new player was nuts for him. He
could do it without malice and in high
! ly humorous fashion. Kaylor discov-
cred the recruit in the box one day and
the debut of the six-footer was not
entirely a success. The players looked
in Kaylor's paper next day to see what
sort of a send-off the new pitcher re-
ceived. 1t was classic by the man
who gave McGgaw his famous nick
name Muggsy' and called Holmes
"Ducky" and attached nicknames to
dozens of others. The players showed
the story to Mr.. Recruit and that night
he started after Kaylor.
Got After Sporting Writer.
Kaylor was found in The Herald
office busily engaged in compiling an
other masterpiece when the raw-boned
giant, who couldn't pitch much, walked
in.
"Wthere is that man Kaylor?" he
asked
MY name is Kaylor," piped a small
man over in one corner.
| The twirling giant gave one look at
his 1O5-pound critic. filled his massive
lungs to their capacity exhaled in the
general direction of the roast-master
and said: "Gol darn We, yer deaa."
Manager Harry Lumley, of the
Brooklyns, tells a good one on young
pitcher tried out by the Superbas this
spring. The youngster was nearly all
in from sheer stage fright He was
being hit rather hard and Lumly asked
him if he would be able to hold out till
the game was over. Il can if my
knees stop humping into each other, y
the future great managed to say.
VIRGINIA TOURNEY.