The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-13
RESULT 0F DEAL
 MAY MAKE DOO|N
 VERY FAMOUS MAN
IF RESULT IS BAD, MANAGER TO GET ENTIRE BLAME-VERY LITTLE HOPE OF YANNIGANS BECOMING REGULARS

Jim Nasiun, the well-known sporting writer of the Philadelphia Inquirer. un- der a Birmingham date line, sends the following to his paper:
 There's nothing to it, Charlie Dooin has as good a chance to reap lot of verbal bouquets and encomiums and a lot of othe rulings like that this year as any baseball manager ever had. If his team enough to the top story of the National league standing to throw connipton fit into the club that beats him out for the glad rag, no one should get more credit for the performance than Charlie. While II the team hits a slump and gets to pumping the bumps around the tail end or the procession-but that is another story, as our old pal, Rud: Kipling, would say. If Charlie entertains any hopes of carving his little niche in the Hall os Fame as baseball manager, 1t behoovec him to see that his team finishes up there or thereabouts the coming season. and that's all there is to it.
 Here's the dope. Charlie made such radical changes in the personnel of his team through that Cincinnati deal that he fought for and insisted on going through with that it Is bound to either make or wreck his machine If the for mer, Charles is the credit; if the latter his is the blame. If he puts up scrap for the flag this year and keeps kicking up the dust around the head of the procession he is doing 1t with a team of his own making. and we'll just simply nave to hand it to him. He won't be kick Ing up fuss around the yestibule to the Hall of Fame with a gun of some other mans making, like certain other man. asers who have copped a niche therein Maybe you think that Charlie took an aWful chance when he pulled that Cin- cinnati deal We'll, Steve Brodie took a chance and he got away with it.
 After all, the results accruing from that trade with Cincinnati is the most im- portant question in connection with the success or failure of the Phillies during the coming season. It will be the rare exception If any of this springs young sters figure prominently in the race Bar ring accidents, there isn't a chance of any of them copping a regular, position, save possibly pitcher or two.
 This boy Lehr, the infielder dug out of the bushes at Kewanee, is the best of the bunch. He looks better right now than either Jack Barry or Eddie Collins looked when they first joined the Ath- letfcs. If he improves at the rate Barry and Collins did you will know that the PhflHes have picked up something. lie isn't class enough or experienced enough yet to replace Lobert, Doolan or Knabe, but he will probably be carried and prove a mighty handy article to have hanging around Mayes, the half-bred Indian outer garden candidate, is fast as a bull let on his feet. good fielder and has a wonderful whip. If he can prove that he can hit good pitching he will probably stick, but he hasn't had any real pitch- ing to hit at yet, and those outer garden CTS in the big show have to be able to slam that old ball. We'll reserve de- cision on this aborigine gentleman till he gets chance to show us.
 Lobert and Paskert are almost certain to bring more into the team than Bates and Grant took away from it. They will add considerable to the strength of the team, both at bat and on the bases, and that's where the runs are made. Lobert will not field his position as well as Grant did, as few are faster than Eddie with his hands and feet if he would only take his head along with him when he starts. But Hans is a much better hitter and base runner and always has his old noodle and that old pep and fight working over time, and that's where we will boost the team along.
 Paskert is one of the leading hitters and base runners of the league. You only have to look at the dope to find that out. When you consider his disposi- ton in comparison with that of Bates, who was always really to quit and lay down in order to get a chance to show a team-mate up, there Is no comparison at all. We got all the best of it there.
 IF'-McQuillan and Moren return to their best form we got the worst of the switch of pitching talent. but Dooin thinks the chance so remote that he couldn't af-
  tain, Rowan and Beebe won't have to show very much to beat what McQuillan and Moren did for the cause last season They are both working hard down here and are dead in earnest in their desire to give the best they've got, and that's more than either of the pitchers we let go showed so that you could notice it.
 To the man up tree the team looks much stronger than it was last year. and there Is still chance of uncovering a phenom among the young pitching talent at work down here. Schultz. Chalmers and Alexander are uncommonly promising candidates, and the young pitching talent this spring has a great advantage in the experienced coaching of Pat Moran. There are none better at this business than Pat. and take it from me, if there is any latent talent here Pat will bring 1t to the surface
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