Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

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crack Cuban player of tho Gin
Cinnau Reds. is being PROM
nently mentioned, ana descrvedly so.
n my opinion. as d candidate for a
regular position in the Giants out
field. and know that Manager Me
C7rsw thinks very favorably Of the
Havana speed marvel
Just what trade could he made be
ween Managers McGraw and Tinker
10 bring about deal whereby Mar
sans could become member Of the
National League champions is mat
Ter that no doubt could he sausfac-
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 he a regular Whirlwind Of
value to the home club
Marsans is no longer an experiment
lie has had two seasons of National
League experience and has made
good. He would improve. too, Won
derfully so, if he could play IN New
York. where the surroundings and
conditions would be much more con-
genial to him than in Cincinnati,
where he has been admost continually
with a losing team.
Needs inspiration.
Cubans require inspiration to he 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 enliyeninE
presence on the Giants would
strengthen them to a much higher
point than they showed in the recent
worlds series
Marsans has all the characteristics
of a born ball player-iust the kind
that appeals to McGraw. Speed and
lots Of it, was always McGraws
hobby; in fact it 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
iHto a three-time championship ae-
gregation, thereby throwing the big
gest kind of a surprise into those old 10
time managers who lived in the self
conceited Imagination that the game
Of 1875 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-tha is.
as far as the physical part goes hut
L 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 very quick thinker lie
is splendid fielder, good throwcr and
natural SOC 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 the 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
tinctiveiy belonging to us. and they
are fast proving to us that we do not
have a monopoly of It.
And neither do we want to be eN-
elusive, We want the game spreaG
he world over. We should be espe-
>clally generous. too. TO Cuba and
Ccbans, for they were the first for
eigners Il say foreigners advisedly
because both they and we would pre-
fer "neighbors" as being more friend
~, and thereby more APPROPRIATE t.
take up the game.