Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-15

MeGraw's Tactics.
To introduce an analysis Of Nc
GTaw's methods would be merely repe-
tition because so much has been al
ready said and written about the boss
OF the Giants. He treats his players
fairly, gives each one the same deal,
is the absolute boss, and plans his
lames and executes his moves with
the precision OF an expert chess player
maneuvering his pieces. McGraw win
not brook characterization. and has q
tongue which will cut any man who
crosses him in his judgment. He
never gives up, and this spirit Of his
has been soaked up by the players on
the Giants In picking a new man,
McGraw selects one who has plenty Of
fight, and then he works to put moro
! fight into him. He does not want y
player on his club whose back will
droop when the other team gets ahead.
Now is the time to get In there and
start fighting. says Mac II the otis
er side Is leading by three or four
runs. He drives numerically. and tor
gets everything about the battle when
II Is over. He may make all kinds OF
reflections ON the intelligence OF the
player after he has thrown the bah 70
the wrong base only to ride home IN
the ball players car after the game.
Baseball men look up 60 him as an
authority on the game. and he has the
respect Of all his players. :
One night last summer. when the
Giants were travelling between two
cities in the middle west. McGraw
caught some Of them playing poker
after midnight He fined two yeter-
an players q hundred dollars apiece.
and the rest OF the men had smaller
sums deducted from their next salary
checks. Last season McGraw col
lected about $500 in fines. The writer
goes on:
colIegIans for aconnIen
Connie Mack IL Of q more retirs
ling nature than any Of the other
great managers. such as Jennings.
| Clarke, McGraw and Chance Mack
prefers college men for his club, AZ
though be likes some Of the players
developed IN the minor leagues. too.
Mack thinks that college men are
desirable for two reasons, one being
they are supposed to be able to Efo1D
situations and think more quickly.
and, the other that they will keep
themselves in better conditio1 Be.
cause they regard baseball as i pro-
fession. but Of course, Mack 4
searching for the same essentials d
bis players that every other nan
ager wants. but which some fail to
discover. These are nerve, brains
tand ph51iEal ability 8.
Mack has dIst Ihted exceIIeht i||I|
lment IN picking his players. It Is s4II
he could tell you BY looking at 4
moving picture OF man IN action
whether he would do for the big
league or not. Mack says he looks for
nerve in his players first OF course.
he could not see this quality from
moving picture very readily unless he
should watch baseman make & play
on runner sliding into the bag
Then he wants brains, because the
success Of the Athletics has largely
been the result OF the qulckthinking
ball players on the club. He, to-
gether with McGraw. is great stick
Ter Tor speed.
Jack Coombs, the Philadelphia
pitcher, is great example OF the
kind of man Connie Mack has de-
yeloped. Coombs was Just good
pitcher when he came 10 the Athletics.
Under Mack he has developed into
one Of the stars Of the last three or
four seasons. Coombs combines the
ability. nerve, and brains,- as he has
frequently demonstrated. The first
Igame that he worked n the series Of
1911 for the worlds championship he
pitched wonderful bali against me. and
won In extra innings. after Baker
banged out that home-run.
Mack is a very sportsmanlike man
ager. When Larry Doyle scored an
important run In the fifth game Of
the 1911 worlds series he failed TO
touch the plate. but slid just q few
inches clear OF ii. Several PhiladeI-
phia fanatics rushed to Mack that
night and urged him to protest the
game, the winning of which would
have meant the series to his club
then.
! He could have touched the plates
couldn't he?" answered Connie to
the protest advocates.
yes. they agreed
We'll, don't want to win a worlds
series that way, and / don't believe
any of the boys do. There viii be no
protest
Chance Is Peevish.
Frank Chance, on whom much at.
tention has been focused recently, is
gruffer in his manners Pitchers who
go into the box and go bad declare
that this fashion Of removing them
does little toward encouraging them or
1pampering their vanity. Chance has
| the reputation of being irritable.
there is a story told of some young
pitcher for whom Charley Murphy
had paid $4,000, @and Murphy likes
three thousand dollars as much as any
enc. Chance was giving this pitcher
his first trial. He took five minutes
to deliver his first ball He was pre-
pairing TO pitch the second when
Chance rushed out from the bench.
Beat it, he said. Beat it fast.
and when I get to the clubhouse. |
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