The Washington herald., 1911-10-30
M'GRAW TO STAND
PAT ON THE GIANTS
Satisfied to Let the Team
Remain Intact.
DURING THE 1912 SEASON
Scrappy New York Leader Thinks
Lack of Experience Caused De-
feat in Recent Worlds Series.
still Believes Both Marquard and
MnthewsOn Can Deliver Goods.

New York, Oct. 29.-Manager MCGraw
will make no changes in the Giants
lineup for next year. lie is satisfied
to stand pat, even though his men were
shown up by the Athletics in the world s
series. McGraw, while not trying to eX-
cuse defeat, believes that lack of expe-
rience had something to do with the
failure of the Giants to display cham
piOnship form and that by this time next
year they will have become we'll sea-
soned. The New York manager says his
players did too much worrying that they
kept their minds on the prize money and
became OveranXious. He declares that
the younger members of the team lost
their toe weights and went clear off
the ground in their efforts to play their
best game. But the result of the series
with the Athletics hasn't discouraged
McGraw a bit, for he points to the fact
that, barring the l3 TO beating. his
Yet McGraw doesn't attempt to deny
that the better team won.
Lack of experience was the cause of
unsteady play on the part of Marquard
Fletcher and Herzog, who, according to
McGraw, are bound to improve next
year. Fletcher clearly was overanxious
and made errors that wouldn't have
marred his work in the regular cham
pionship season. HerzOg played a great
fielding game on Wednesday, but he
wavered in other games. Merkle, Doyle.
Fletcher and Herzog. however, will be
the regular infeld next year. Murrav's
slump in batting. while a big surprise.
mas not lessened his value from Nc
GraW 5 point of view. Murray evidently
worried over his weak hitting and lost
his nerve before the series was half
over. Devore, Snodgrass and Murray
played fine ball in the regular cham
Plonshlp season and their work helped
materially to win the pennant
McGraw hasn't lost confidence in his
star pitchers, Mathewson and Maruuard.
and predicts that they will win as MANY
games in 1912 as they did this year. The
Giants manager isn't alarmed over the
supposed weakness of the other pitchers
and isn't going TO reach out for more He
IS quietly confident that the Giants will
capture another pennant, but he doesn't
fear the fading Cubs as much as the
and Pittsburgs. With Doom
in the game all next season, the Phila-
delphias will prove more dangerous than
''SI' -hSTId" lI.lnhSs while the Pitts
burgs may have a sensational winner in
the $1,000 O'Toole.
If the Cubs trade Joe Tinker it is the
prevailing opinion that there'n be a big
gap in their inficld which no ordinary
man can fill While it is admitted that
Chance is a first-class manager baseball
sharps predict that it will take at least
another year for him 20 develop new
into pennant winning machine.
The Cardinals may keep. well up in the
race for a time under Bresnahan's active
lead ership, but it is believed they will
not possess the required class to finish
first, second or third
As far as the American League race is
it is the prevalent opinion
that the Athletics, intact, will be hard to
beat, al.nough The other teams will put
up a stiff fight to head them off 1t is
Macks ambition to win three consecu-
tive pennants and worlds championships,
and he isn't backward in predicting such
a triumph.