Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
MARSANS MAY
BE MEMbERO F
GIANT OUTFIELD
Many Fans Think Cuban Would
Become a Star Under Nc
Graw's Management.
BY Sam Crane.

~ UTFTELDER MARSANS. the
crack Cuban player Of the Gin
cinnati Reds is being promi-
nently mentioned, and deservedly So
in my opinion, as a candidate for a
regular position in the Giants out
field. and know that Manager Nc
Draw thinks very favorably OF the
Havana speed marvel
Just what trade could be made be
ween Managers McC;raw and Tinker
10 bring about a deal whereby Mar
sans could become a member Of the
National League champions is mat
GER that no doubt could be satisfac-
torily arranged, and to mutual ad
vantage, for Marsans would Mi in
most acceptably on the Giants line
up. and to my way Of thinking would
prove to be a regular whirlwind Of
value to the home club.
Marsans is no longer an experiment
He has had two seasons of National
League experience and has made
good. He would improve. TOO, Won
derfully so, if he could play n New
York, where the surroundings and
conditions would be much more con
genial to him than in Cincinnati
where ne has been almost continually
with a losing team.
Needs Inspiration.
Cubans require inspiration to be at
their best, and the mere fact Of Mar
sans being on "A championship club
would improve his already great
ability fully so per cent
And, believe me, his enliveniug
presence on the Giants would
strengthen them to a much higher
worlds series.
Marsans has all the characteristics
of born ball player-iust the kind
that appeals to McGraw. Speed and
lots of it, was always MCGraw S
hobby; In fact, II was the Giants
manager who first saw the absolute
necessity of speed to keep pace with
the progression of the sport 1t was
McGraw who set the present pace and
transformed the style of playing the
game, and this was in Baltimore.
when the famous Orioles flashed so
suddenly from a second division team
into three time championship ag-
sregation, thereby throwing the big
gest kind of a surprise into those old
time managers who lived in the self
conCeited Imagination that the game
of 1876 would do for 1896.
Every year since MCGraw has had
charge of the Giants he has endeav-
ored to increase the speed of his
teams. and he has succeeded that is
as far as the physical part goes, but
il can not be truthfully said that he
has always been successful in I'M
proving the mental quiCkness of his
talent-bone Is not as plant or supple
as muscle.
Marsans is not only fast on his feet
but is also a very quick thinker. He
Is splendid fielder, good thrower and
A natural 300 hitter, and with a win
ming team he would flash brighter in
all departments.
Marsans wants to play with the
Giants and all Cuba wants to have
him.
Our neighbors of tho little island to
the south of us are just as true
lovers of our national game as we are
ourselves, In fact, they deprecate that
we lay claim to the sport as dis
tinctively belonging 10 us and they
are fast proving TO us that we do not
have monopoly of it.
And neither do we want to be eX-
elusive We want the game spread
the world over We should be espe-
1aily generous, too to Cuba and
Cubans for they We're the first for
eigners q say foreigners adVisedly,
because both they and we would pre-
fer 'neighbors" as being more friend
ly. and thereby more appropriately 10
take up the game.