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.

McGraW. during the trip
around the world with the
Giants and White sox. will or shoult
have something on his mind more
than to win against his travelling
rivals
1t 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 McGra has brought the
Giants to the top Of the National
League heap in the last few years is
not sufficient to satisfy the New Yori,
public. That same public asks more
of him.
McGraw in the National League is
in 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-
veiop team that can beat out the
Athletics. and il is up to him to do If.
And he 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 were. But ne shouldn't have
been fooled
The National League and the Ma
tional League partisans look up 10
McGraw as their Moses
MCGTaw has failed-and Why
Simply because he has held the Amer
lean League too cheaply ever since ne
severed his connection with it.
McGraW ignored all the reports
that he heard OF the proves 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 a phenom until the
Giants and Red Sox played a post
season series. and then both he and
Mathewson 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
=
ond-class team. Possibly ne knew It
before.
No Excuse Will Go.
But that series is over-a thing OF
the past and II he still sticks to
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 and Snodgras SIS 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
1t is all right enough to be mag
unanimous and all that on the vaude-
vile stage when one is getting $500
a week for it, 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 Penant in 1910.
From 1910 Merkle and Snodgrass
have not done anything in Worlds
Series to appeal 10 anyone but Nc
Graw,
IN 1903 herRle Tailed 10 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 to
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 Merkle
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.
1t was only last fail that Snodgrass
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 Snod-
grass nor Merkle was in shape. still
they bob up as the prime hard luck
factors
Needs Cleanup Hitters.
They both are becoming verr tire
some.
McGraw must know, and he does,
that ne has got to get two cleanup
hitters. He may have one in Robert
son, the former Mobile star, but he
must get another otherwise his su-
perb personality can not carry the
Giants always TO the top OF the Ma