Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-17
CHANGE NEEDED
IN GIANTS TEAM.
SAYSSAM CRANE
Up to McGraw to Replace Weak
Hitters and Slow Thinkers
With New Men.
By Sam Crane.
FEW YORK, oct. 1s.-Manager

N McGraw. during the trip
around the world with the
Giants and White sox, will or should
have something on his mind more
than to win against his travelling
rivals
It is 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 10 satisfy the New York
public. That same public asks more
Of him.
McGraw in the National League is
in a class by himself as a manager,
simply because he brought by his own
personality a second division team to
the leadership OF the parent organi
cation.
But he owes the big city" more
than that. He has II in him to de-
velop a team that can heat out the
Athletics, and It is up to him TO do 1t.
And he can do IT, Make no mistake
about that
Reflects on MoGraw.
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 were. But he shouldn't have
been fooled
The National League and the Ma
tional League partisans look up to
McCfraw as their Moses
McGraw has failed-and why?
Simply because he has held the Amer
lean League too Cheaply ever since he
severed his connection with II.
NcGraw 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 r phenom until the
Giants and Red Sox played a post
season series, and then both he and
Mathewson were obliged to acknowl-
edge g.
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 II
before.
No Excuse VIII Go.
But that series is over-a thing Of
the past, and II he still 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 Merllle and Snodgrass have
"queered" the Giants In every post
season series they have ever played
in. is Just as plainly evident to Nc
Graw as It is TO everyone else who
saw the games PLAYED.
It Is all right enough to be mag
nanimous and all that on the vaude-
week for #, but McGraw has not
that to do this year or next.
In 1914 he Is faced with a PROPOSE
ton where he has to discard certain
players who have not made good for
him
Lost Pensnt In 1910.
From 1910 Merkle and Snodgrass
have not done anything in Worlds
Series 10 appeal TO anyone but Nc
Graw
In 1908 Merkle failed to touch sec
ond basel didn't think he was to
blame for that. but the National
Commission or President Pulliam did
But whether Merkle was right or
wrong, the Giants lost the chance 10
play for the Worlds Series.
McGraw at that time did not blame
Merkle. On the contrary he raised
his salary for the next year.
That was all right McGraw got
lots Of credit and all that and Merltle
was made thereby the best first base
man in the world, and, anyhow. Nc
Graw said he wouldn't swap him for
Daubert, Chase or anyone else
It was only last fall that SnodErass
and Merkle tossed away the Worlds
Series. Snodgrass was not nearly as
much to blame as Merkle. because the
latter failed to make a play that was
right IN front OF him.
In the series, while neither SnoH-
grass nor Merkle was IN shane. still
they bob up as the prime hard luck
factors.
Needs Clean up Hitters.
They both are becoming very tire
some.
McGraw must know and he does.
that he has got to get two cleanup
httters. He may have one IN Robert
son, the former Mobile star but he
must get another. otherwise his gu
perb personality can not carry the
Giants always to the top OF the Ma
tional League.