The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-07-09
HOW | WIN
BY FRED CLARKE,
Manager and Left Fielder Of the
Worlds Champion Pittsburg Pirates


Hit and hustle.
The whole secret of winning is con-
tanned in those two words.
That is the way Pittsburg has won
and that is the way every winning
team l ever have played with or
against has won.
There is less difference between the
ability of players to perform than
most persons think. The great diff
ference is in their courage, nerve and
determination to win.
! believe in hitting and in hitting to
help the team, for after all the work
of the individual player is not worth
much unless he directs every effort to
helping the other players on the club.
The thing that makes Wagner the
greatest hitter in the world is his
willingness to help base runners, COM
bined with his ability to help them
He is the best man playing the hit.
and-run game, either on the bases or
when at bat. in the world, and his
willingness to spoil his own record to
win for the team shows the difference
between him and some others. l be.
lieve it has paid him, instead of injur-
ing his record.
| tell this just to show how import
ant working together is to the success
of a ball club. Every man must be in
harmony on the ball field during the
game 1t is the common interest that
Yields them together to make a win.
ming club. and a manager cannot af-
ford to have one loose cog. One might
as well throw a wrench into an engine
as to put a discordant player into
good club.
the ball field. Of course, a player
must have intelligence and be able to
think and to remember. but I think
the greater part of baseball brains"
consists of close attention to the game
every instant, and both on and off the
field. The worst mistakes made by
players are not hose that come from
lack of brains SO much as from lack
of attention to what their own team or
members of the other team are doing
or trying to do. A winning player
has his mind on the game all the time
and makes a study of it just as a
man in any other tvade or profession
must do.
My players think I am something of
a crank on discipline. and on keeping
in condition. Perhaps tina is so I be-
lieve in careful training in the spring,
and still more careful training and
conditioning the entire season. The
modern player must study himself if
he is to succeed and continue to sue
ceed He must know his own body
and avoid either growing stale or
indulging himself too much. either in
eating or drinking. think cigarettes
are the worst things possible for a
player, both for his wind and for his
eyes If player takes a drink of ale
or beer he ought to do it after hard
game, or when he feels himself in
danger of going stale.
AS for the playing of the game it.
self. the chief thing is to watch for
every opening, to be ready to seize on
any advantage, and to do the unex-
pected thing when it counts Doing
things when they count wins games.
The same things done at other times
merely cost strength.
Every man on the Flttsburg team is
assistant captain and manager, and
every one who sees a move on the
other side instantly coaches the 9th.
ers. That is what I call team work
every minute and helping the others.
every minute and helping the others.
Also a winning team ought to fight
for every point; claim it and go after
it; not Towdyism but aggressiveness
is the point. 1t makes the other side
less confident, and helps get an even
break" which is all any team should
ask.
HERTIEIHATE OE TEEACIIRER