El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-20
CBy sam Crane.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Manager
~ McGraw, during the trip around
= the world with the Giants and
White SOx, will, or should have, some
thing on his mind more than TO win
against his travelling rivals
It is possibly a rare good thing that
he viii 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 McGraw has brought the Giants
to the top of the National league heap
in the last few years IS not sufficient
TO satisfy the New York public That
same public, perhaps, asks too much
OF him by demanding more.
McGraw in the National league is
in a class by himself as a manager,
simply because he brought by his own
personality a second division team UP
TO the leadership of the present organ
But he owes the Big City" more
than that He has it in him to de-
velOp a team that can beat out the
Athletics, and it is up to him to do it.
And he can do it Make no mistake
about that.
Reflects on McGrav.
The 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
were. But he shouldn't have been
fooled.
Inc NaLlODa1 league ana the -NallOUd4
league partisans look up to McGraw
as their Noses
In McGraw the National league club
owners, the mosquitoes, and all those
who think the older organization is
preeminent, expected McGraW to get
them out of the wilderness
McGraw has failed-and why? Sim
ply because ne held the American
leaguers too cheaply ever since he sew
cred his connection with them.
McGraw ignored al the reports that
he heard of the proWess 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 acknow-
ledge it
And I think from that time McGraw
was brought face to face to the fact
that the American league has some
players.
WINGED McGraw that he has a second
class team Possibly he knew it be-
fore
But that series is over-a thing Of
the past-and if he still sticks to Mer-
kle and Snodgrass no vaudeville state
ment 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 New York fans
That Merkle and SnOdgrass have
season series they have ever played in
IS just as plainly evident to McGraw
as it is to everyone else who saw the
games played.
It 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
Lost Pennant in 1910.
From 1910, Merkle and SnOdgrass
have not done anything in worlds
series to appeal to anyone but Nc
In 1908 Merk1e failed to touch sec
ond base-I didn't think he was to
blame for that, but the National com
mission or presidentPuillam 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; anyhow, McGraw
said he wouldn't swap him for Daubert,
Chase on anyone else.
It was only last fail that SnOdgrass
and Merkle tossed away the worlds
series SnodgrasS was not nearly as
much to blame as Merlxle. because the
latter failed to make a play that was
right IN front Of him.
In the series, while both Snodgrass
and Merkle were not in shape, still
they bob up as the prime hard luck
factors.
Now, to my mind. any player who
cannot think quickly and on the spur
o. the moment is no real ball player.
It is about time for McGraw to put