Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-16
CHANGE NEEDED
IN GIANTS TEAM.
SAYS SAM CRANE
Up to MCGraw to Replace Weak
Hitters and Slow Thinkers
With New Men.
BY Sam Crane.
NEW YORK, Oct. l6.-Managt;
~ McGraw, during the tr'

y McGraW, during the tr'
around the world with T.
Giants and White Sox. will or shoa'
have something on his mind NOR
than TO win against his travelir
rivals
1t - possibly a rare good thing that
he will not have with him all the
Giants who lost the recent Worlds
Series. Otherwise he might have his
mind SO tangled up that he would
hardly know where he stood.
That McGraw has brought the
| Giants to the top Of the National
| League heap in the last few years is
not sufficient to satisfy the New YORK
| public. That same public asks mui"
! OF him.
McGraw in the National !
! in a class by himself as o
| simply because he brought by
| personality a second division 6 TO
| the leadership Of the parent or-aui-
! cation
But he owes the big City" more
than that He has it in him to de-
velop a team that can beat out tine
Athletics and it is up to him to do it,
And ne can do IT, Make no mistake
about that.
Reflects on McGraw.
The awful showing that the Giants
made against the Athletics reflects
more or less on him.
He might have been fooled as to
! the strength OF the Athletics as many
Of us We're. But he shouldn't have
| been fooled.
The National League and the Ma
! tional League partisans look up to
McGraw as their Moses
NCGraw has failod-7nd Why
Simply because he has held the Amer
lean League too cheaply ever since hh
severed his connection with II.
McGraw ignored all the reports
that he heard of the prowess Of Ty
Cobb. Hal Chase. Joe Jackson and
other stars Of the American League.
He wouldn't give in to the fact that
Iris Speaker was phenom until the
Giants and Red Sox played a post
! season series, and then both he and
Mat1 awson were obliged to acknowl-
edge IT,
And think from that time McGraw
was brought face to face to the fact
that the American League has some
PLAYERS.
This latest series no doubt, has
convinced MCGraw that he has a sec
ond class team. Possibly he knew IL
before.
No Excuse Will Co.
But that series is over-a thing Of
the past and II he stirl sticks 10
Merkle and Snodgrass-no vaudeville
statement that he could possibly
make that they are the best on earth
would go. even with him. And no
one is more popular than he with
Gotham fans.
That Merkle ard Snodgrass have
"queered" the Giants in every post
sea son series thev have ever PLAYED
in is just as plainly evident 10 Nc
Graw as It is to everyone else who
saw the games PLAYED
II is all right enough to be mag
unanimous and all thatN0n the vaude-
VILE stage when one is getting $1,000
week for il. but MCGraw has not
that 20 40 this year or next.
In 1914 he is faced with a proposi-
ton where he has to discard certain
rlavers who have not made good for
him
Lost Penant in 1910.
From 1910 Merlile and Snodgrass
have not done anything In Worlds
Series to appeal to anyone but Nc
Graw.
In 1903 Merkle failed TO touch sec
ond basel didn't think he was to
blame for that bnt the National
Commission or Preeidert Pulliam did.
But whether Merk1o as right or
wrong. the Giants 10. chance to
PLAY for the Worlds .a
McGraw at that time T not blamn
Merkle. On the COntrarr he raised
his salary for the next yonr
That was all right. McGraw ~".