Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
STALL|NGS BEST
JUDGE Of YOUNG
BALL PLAYERS
Boston Manager Is Usually Given
Difficult Task of Building Up
Teams From Nothing.
By Sam Crane.
TANAGER GEORGE STALL
MI INGS is considered to be
hailt Tia hnSt I'm sro &c r-a....c-

|" INGS is considered to be
about the best judge of young
ball players there is in the country.
A prominent rival manager of Stall
lings in the National League, whose
reputation in developing promising
youngsters is national, said not long
so when the leader of the Boston
Braves was the subject of a tanning
b e. why, Stallings can smell a good
ball player. 1t seems to be almost
second sight with him to select Just
the player he needs"
Stallings' success with the Braves
last season in bringing them up to 4
near factor in the race when many
critics thought they were as consist
tnt tail-enders as tho St Louis
Browns in the American League,
stamps him as constructive man
ager, and how many managers are
there now that have built winninS
teams from the ground up as has
Stallings?
There is little trouble for any man
aoer who knows anything at all about
baseball and handling men to make
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
\
made their regulations
Had to BuIo Teams.
Stallings has always, when he has
taken charge of clubs, been forced 10
build up-to construct be winner from
almost nothing. That was the situa-
ton that faced him when he took
charge of the Yankees, the Detroits,
the Buffalos, the Newarks and the
Boston Braves and it is to his credit
that he was successful with all. He
uses characteristic methods, possibly
peculiar to himself, on the bench, and
uses rough language at times. He is
i hard loser but he gets rerults. the
winning kind, and that is what he is
hired for.
There are some players who have
Kicked over Stallings' bench methods
In calling them down for bone plays
and have knocked him numerically,
but it is my opinion they are the
thin skinned fellows or old players
who are on the wane and on the verge
Of falling into the. has been" class.
or else veterans who have been acCus
toned to easy-going, meally mOuthed
managers, who were holding on to
their jobs by the skin of their teeth
and who allowed the stars, so called,
to dictate to them. "-~-
Manager Joe Tinker when he first
took charge of the Cincinnati Reds,
found some of that class of hold
overs, particularly pitchers who con-
sidered it breach of managerial
manners to be called on to work when
they themselves did not think it was
their turn.
Tinker Had His Way.
Me pitch! Who, me. Why, this
isn't my day. I don't go in until to-
morrow" were the usual replies in
answer to Manager Joe's orders. until
he established a new precedent IN
cincinnati by making his unwilling
pitchers go into the box when he
thought they should, not when thay
imagined it was their turn.
Another pitcher, who was with the
Yankees at one time, when told he
was to pitch one day, replied; Not
me. Why, this isn't my kind Of
weather"
Those are probably the kind IF
pampered players who have seen fit
to knock Manager Stallings and his
methods. They didn't agree with his
turning upside down the unWritten
pitchers law of going in only when
they thought was the proper time.
If there were more managers Of
Stallings' constructive ability and
judgment in the National League, that
old big three combination of consist
ent Wipners-GiantS, Cubs and Pr
rates-would be more badly smashed
than last season, when the Phillles
broke into second place.