The Alaska citizen., 1911-12-25

on the Giants But he is not as much
better as the figures tend to show.
DOYLE makes more boneheaded
breaks on the bases than almost
any player on his own team. He
makes more errors with his hands.
But there is something that does
not figure in the averages that
makes him a much greater player
than his records indicate.
Each Represents Managers Idea.
Doyle is the perfect type of the
McGraw school of baseball Collins
is the perfect type of the Mack
trained man. One is noisy, scrappy,
umpire batting; the other is quiet,
fast and allows his action to speak
for himself. True. when Collins join
ed Macks team he had that scrappy
idea. He wanted to bark at and per
haps bite umpires. but Mack soon
drilled him into his own way "
playing and Collins quickly grasped
the theory that as one player re-
marked: 1t don't never get you
nothin' TO fight no umpire
They are different types of men,
sprung from the same type Of an
cestors Collins is the college bred
youth. while Doyle came up through
10 ;a1I rn
fairly we'll educated, quiet and easy
hammered men The difference is on
Mack and McGraw than TO early
educational advantages
Doyle sprang into prominence by
his work at Springfield, H.. and
when Dick kinselia unloaded him
onto New York for a near record
price the baseball world howled that
McGraw had bought brick. Nc
Graw hung on. Undoubtedly Doyle
was bad fielder and bad inside
worker fer two years. but he could
hit. and hit any kind of pitching
and was improving in fielding. He
never played with any other major
league team, but developed right
under McGraw, and adapted his
style of playing the game readily.
Doyle Real Fighting Leader.
AT the end of Two years he was
81 e ;,1r; toll -
first 10 yelp at an opposing player,
the first to rush upon an umpire
he has improved steadily, season af-
ter season, and although not a
neat fielder he gets them. His only
two weaknesses, as far as can be
learned. are that he makes a lot
of bad breaks on the bases and that
he is not good at handling slow
Founders. He gets the hot ones as
well as anyone can, throws beauIi-
fully. pivots well on top of second
base. relays fast and is hustling and
in the game every second. He bat
ties for every point and cheers and
encourages his team and his pitcher.
Collins is Columbia College man
second, and a ball player first.
He played ball at college and was
a great player 1t was while at Col
ubia that Connie Mack first got a
m, nd in he
played ball under another name, up
in Connecticut and elsewhere.
Unlike Doyle, Collins made good
from the start. Fast, wonderful
left handed hitter, bunter, a dar-
ing and speedy base runner, he wax.
ed up the American League the mo-
ment he got into the regular lineup.
He set the league afire last season
by his marvellous base running, and
the pennant of 1910 was won by
his brilliant work. Not satisfied
with that he climaxed his wonderful
seasons work by the greatest dis.
play of fielding ever seen in a
worlds series His work alone turn.
ed the first two games against
the Cubs in the early stages of the
game. In the second game he pre-
vented the rout of Coombs. Men
who have watched thousands OF
games say they never witnessed
such fielding.
Collins Faster Going to First.
Collins is one Of the fastest men
going to first in the business, and
can step down there on a bunt in
10 seconds, at least two-fifths
of a second faster than Doyle can
and Doyle isn't slow, although he
doesn't start as quickly.
Collins is hitting above $50 stead
lily and has stolen about forty base:
this season. On team that plays
mixed up game Doyle is just over
the 800 mark and has stolen about
the same amount of bases.
On base running they are nearly
equal, but Collins arrives at second
safely on a greater per cent Of his
starts than Doyle does.
They are different types one
worth almost as much to his club
as the other and both grand players
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