El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-29
sTEvALL IS MAKING
GOOD As MAPS
MANAGER
Work on Theory That His
Team Has a Chance to
Win Pennant.
Nv w. $. Farnsworth.

New York. N Y. july ZS--Deacoh
lin MCGUIRE after two disastrous
weeks. resigned the managersnlp VI
the Cleveland American league cruz On
May of this year. saying that ne wa
not nossessed of the material TO run
,,,;,niny team George Stovall was
placed in temporary command ano since
then has made what we BroadWaylles
would call a bowling hit. he Is no
longer acting manager bur perll@ II eiit
manager, and let 1t be spelled IN Caps.
Today Stovan is the Bresnahah Oh
tho American league. Never sensa-
ttonal player himself. although ABOVE
she ordinary first baseman, al lhat'
he has developed a lot of raw recruits
into a corking good ball team ana one
that is going to cause lot Oh tiouple
in the pennant race BEFORE the seo00-'
is completed. -,
when StovaIl was put in charge OF
+be Mans. IL was generally understood
that as soon as Harry Davis had I'm
ished schooling young Stufry NC
Inness in the art of playing tlrst oase
for the Athletics, Connie MacK "ouIu
let the veteran go to Cleveland 10
manage that club
Upsefs All Plans.
But Stovall has upset all that pion'
and il looks as though Davis VIII not
bust into the major league ranhS q
a manager at least for the present
S+ovau has given Cleveland the nrst
reaI team If has had since 1908. when
+bax finished fourth to Detroit, ana
were only two games behind the leaoer
Of that Charley Somers is beglnnlhs
70 reap a harvest and he Is SO pLeaseo
With StovalTs work that 1t Is likely
he will add a sweet bonus to MS SAL
ary- a;f-
Stoyalrs policy has been entirely on
ferent from that pursued by McGuire'
and 1t has proved to be the rlsnl - 49,
McGDire worked on the theory lhdt
cleveland has a chance to win the pen
Mani and the Maps must win right from
+be start AT any rate, he INTENDED
70 FRY until the last man was out 10
pr,n every game regardless OF the
contamination of players he regaroeu
necessary.
working on that system he DER
Kicked his young pitchers oIten- re
removed shortstop Olson from the
onen,np game of the season at time
when the Maps were eight runs
hind. sending in a substitute patter
90 him when there were two out and
none on the bases. In fact, he was
constantly shifting his players, appar-
entity striving to hit what might prove
a winning combination.
Stovau of course, had the success
of the team just as much at heart as
Mcclure. but he believed that the ae-
sired results could be secured oy
adopting somewhat different poliey-
He realized the fact that, with the
execution of Falkenberg, Cleveland
had TO depend upon young pitchers en-
tirely: he knew that he had an outfleid
which had much TO learn about field
inp. he knew that both of his catchers,
although "comebaeks'' were recruits; ne
knew that he had an experimental
shortstop.
with such a situation he felt that
Cleveland could not be expected 10
start off the campaign like pennant
winners. He knew 1T must lose lot
of games through lack of cooperation
ana because of blunders. But. in the
event OF better team work being
acquired through practice and patience,
he was ef the opinion that the team
which was losing for the reasons
mentioned. would begin TO WIN when
the players found themselves and be-
came more of a baseball machine.
Believing that he realized that
what he would have to instin into the
youngsters was confidence IN them
selves and incidentally in the team as
a whole. Consequently, he adopted
the system OF leaving his young
pitchers in the box from start to
finish. regardless of their lack of con-
troll or ineffectiveness in spots.
Confidence Necessary.
As Addie Joss remarked two weeks
before he died, Stovall believed that
a young pitchers career can be injured
by being taken from the box upon the
slightest provocatson in his early
trials. He was. therefore. working on
A4 ~
store confidence among his heavens
the sooner the team would win.
Chicago scored seven runs against
each of the two Nap pitchers, Gregg
and Knapp. yet each stuck TO the fin
fish. That he acted wisely has been
demonstrated since.
Again. with Olson going bad in the
field and at the bat, he Informed the
shortstop that he vas there to stay
that no changes were going to be
made in the makeup of the inner
works At once Olson began to play
an improved game. especially with the
willow, batting in pinches as well as
when the bases were unoccupied
The team lacked pepper, but Sto-
vail got them all UP on their toes and
today they jabber away like a lot Of
poll parrots. They are full of fight,
back up each other like champions and
you can look for them to be very much
in next years pennant race.
Stovan does not believe in morning
practice. But every man must report
at the grounds at 10 o'clock when the
team is at home, where they cluster In
the grandstand and talk over plays
Stovall believes that morning practice
takes the players off edge and that
they are not in tip top shape therefore
in the afternoon.
Holds Up Well.
Although Stovail was never consid-
cred a first sacksr Of the Chase class,
he has managed to hold his position
with the Maps since 1904 when he broke
into the American league, although
some pretty clever men have tried to
earn his job among them " ere Hickman
on two occasions, Schwartz, Carr, Ross
man, Lister, Daubert and Hohnhurst
Stovall started his baseball career
as a twirler in the semi-pro ranks of
his home town. Kansas City. He made
a big impression there and in 1902 Sc
attic, of the Pacific Coast league. Sc
cured him. He was traded to Portland,
of the same circuit, the following sea-
son, but his arm went back on him and
he was released
He was a proud youngster and didn't
want to return home under the condi