Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-06-18

TT LOOKS as II Manager Chance OF
the Chicago Cubs made a real dis
covery when he got Leonard Cole
from the Southern Michigan league.
Cole has pitched four games for the
ex-champions and each was a victory.
king" Cole is naturally the nickname
given to the recruit by the Chicago
fans. who have taken to his twirling
like duck does to water
Cole is a barber and in his first four
games he gave his opponents every
thing from shave to a massage. I'm
der the direction OF Chance and his
catchers Cole has been practising on
a slow one and when he used II sue
cessfully against the Pirates Chance
was tickled almost to death.
The new twirler has established the
fact that marriage is not a failure. He
took a bride recently and she has
been a silent "rooter" for him in every
game he has pitched. Chance is urg-
ing the other bachelors OF his staff
to get married.
That fellow Richie. obtained in a
trade with Boston, likewise is going
some. The Cubs took Richie because
he had been a stumbling block for
Pittsburg. Richie upheld his reputa
tion by shutting out the Pittsburg
bunch the first time the two teams
met after he became a Cub.
The newspapers seldom refer to
Tohn AHnDrom p,anagar of tho Nau
York Giants as "Muggsy" any more.
Il is not because McGraw isn't as
scrappy as ever, but he has said he
didn't like the nickname and the base
ball writer's have deferred to his
wishes. McGraw, who has that bunch
OF Giants going at top speed all the
time, recently in an interview said
the peculiar athletic ability that
makes a ball player a star must be
born in him. II certainly was born In
John, for in his day he certainly was
a star.
During my career as a player and
as a manager on the diamond" said
McGraw. 81 probably have seen 1000
players start out in the spring. and |
have never seen star develop who
was not born with the ability to make
his success.
"Of course they can be developed
and improved, but they must have the
germ OF the ball player when they
start OF they will be just ordinary
bali players. Whenever you find a
young player at the plate who sees his
fellow.player about to pull" a new
one as we call a clever play, and then
see the batter work with him, you
have found the natural ball player.
"We have in baseball a class OF
hall players who are known by the
players as thought ball players
That is TO say, they will make bad
play and then upon their return to the
bench viii say, Well, | thought etc.
Those players never make stars. II
they had seen the play at the start
thew could have fallen into It and
helped to carry II through, but they
didn't because they didn't think OF It
quickly enough. They were not born
with the power TO think and act at
the same time. After thinking It over
for a few minutes and dlgestlng II
thoroughly they can readily see why
such and such a play would have gone
through, but the trouble is they do
not grasp the idea at the right mo-
ment."
mo, indeed. inside baseball isn't
hunk" says Clarke Griffith. IF you
have the pitchers you can pull of a
lot Of this inside stun.
with the Mathewsons and Browns
working you can use signs. signals
and shifts galore. When your pitch
ers have perfect control OF the ball
and twists on the sphere which force
the batter 10 hit weakly. you can
mug ND the grooves