El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-28

-EW YORK, Oct 2S--Manager
n George Stallings is considered to
L be one of the best judges Of
young ball players there is in the coun-
A prominent rival manager of Stall
lings in the National league, whose
reputation in developing promising
Youngsters is national, SAID not IONS
ago when the leader of the Boston
Braves was the subject of tanning
bee, why, StaliingS can smell Soou
ball player. It seems to be almost sec
ond sight with him to select Just the
PLAYER he needs"
StaiIings's success with the Braves
last season in bringing them up 70
a near factor in the race when many
critics thought they were as consist
emf tailenders as the St. Louis Browns
in the American league, stamps MIN as
a constructive manager, and how many
managers are there now VINO nave
built winning teams from the GROUND
up as has Stallings2
There is little trouble for any man
ager who knows anything at all ABOUT
baseball and handling men 70 maze
a success of a ready made winning
team, handed to him with his con-
tract, and it was under those FAVOR
able conditions that many Of the So
called successful managers OF TO-DAY
made their regulations
Had to Build Team.
Stallings has always, when ne mas
taken charge OF CLUBS, peen Iorceu
from almost nothing That was the
situation that faced him when ne took
charge of the Yankees, the DetroIts,
the BuffalOes, the NeWarks ana the
Boston Braves, and II is to his credit
that he was successful with all ne
11ses characteristic methods, possibly
peculiarg to himself, on the Dencn anu
uses rough language at times ne Is d
hard loser, but he gets results, the WIN
ming kind, and that is what he IS hlreo
for. ,.o
kicked over Stallings's bench metnoos
in calling them down for bone pays
and have knocked him unmerclIuily,
but it is my opinion they are tne lhln
skinned fellows or old players who are
on the Wane and on the verge OF 1ali-
ing into the has been" class, or else
veterans who have been accustomed to
easy going managers, who were nolo-
ing on 10 their Jobs by the skin Of their
teeth and who allowed the stars, SO
called, to dictate to them;
Manager Joe Tinker. when ne IlEst
took charge of the Cincinnati Reds
found some Of that class of hoIdoVers,
particularly pitchers, who considered II
a breach of managerial manners to be
called on to work when they IneIh-
selves did not think il was their turn
Tinker Had His Way.
Ne pitchl Who, me, Why this isn't
my day. I don't go in until tomorrow,
were the usual replies in answer 10 !
manager Joe's~erders, until he estab- /
lished a new precedent in Cincinnati by |
ma king his unwilling pitchers go INTO
the box when he thought they should, |
not when they imagined was their
turn.
Another pitcher, who was with the
Yankees at one time, whens told ne
was to pitch one day replied: Not
me. Why, this isn't my kind OF
weather"
Those are probably the kind Of pam
pered players who have seen fit TO
knock manager Stallings and his meth
DDS. They didn't agree with his turn
ing upside down the unwritten pitch
ers law of going in only when they
thought was the proper time.
If there were more managers of |
Stallingss constructive ability and |
Judgment in the National league that !
old big three combination of consistent /
1Finners-Giants, Cubs and Pirates !
would be more badly smashed than last /
season, when the Phillies broke into /
second place.
This man StaIlings has got to be con- |
sidered and watched, not alone by |
Clarke, Doom and Evers, but by Nc /
GraW, although the latter has won /
the National league championship three |
years in succession. Stallings has got |
to be watched because he has pro- /