Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-18
MONTY TALKS 0F BASEBALL OUTLOOK Says Brooklyn Has "Some Team" Despite Her Past
 Reputation. WINNING GAMES, TOO Explains "Whys and Wherefores" of Bunch "AcrOss the Riyer.'
WINNING GAMES, TOO
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 concerns big doings among the trans pontine populace which is unused tc
 such things. Brooklyn has a baseball
 team. Not since the days of Ned Han i lon, in the first few years of the cen
 tury, has such state of affairs exist
 ed. A baseball team in Brooklyn
 who ever heard of such a thing? Yet
 this time it is team, and no joke
 about it. You ill outlying districts who have watched the standing of the clubs knew that the Dodgers have
 been winning games, lots of them,
 but so have other teams in the past
 many of them simply through getting the breaks of the game and not be-
 lyn crew is not one of those lucky slip-through propositions. It is play ing baseball.
 For three years Bill Dahlen has heard the taunts of fans calling him a joke manager and during those same three years he was unable to land higher than the second division. His predecessors, LVmley and Dono- van, did equally as poorly following the departure of Hanlon and the old guard. Charles H. Ebbets let those two out because they simply didn't "show anything" The fans howled for him to treat Dahlen likewise, but Ebbets, kidded man as he is was wise Dahlen showed him something in his very first disastrous year, something additional in the second and still more in the third
 An average of about one or two first class players a year were de- veloped by Dahlen out of raw recruits, until now, in the beginning of his fourth season as head of the team, he has what appears to be by the far the most promising young team in either league. The veteran of the bunch, Nap Fucker, is still a young man basebally speaking. He has been with the club only five years and just now is showing if anything increased cun- ming. Jake Daubert the most reliable first baseman in the game, has three fourths of his career ahead of him, and the rest of the array is almost still in the debut stage.
 The principal factor that has brought the jump of the Dodgers from lower to upper half of the standing is Otto Miller. Let him who will arise and deny it-Otto Miller, though stripling, is the best throwing catcher in the game. Get that, the best throw ing catcher in the game, and even up in every other feature of playing his position with any other man in the game, barring not Jimmy Archer, not Roger Bresnahan, not Ainsmith, not anybody. Several will hit the ball harder than Miller and several will run bases better, but as a catcher pure and simple, he is the blue rib boner of them all, and when the team takes it's first swing around the west ern circuit, beginning a week hence, the transAllegheny, vigilants will be treated on an exhibition of catching unsurpassed by Johnny King in his prime.
 Jimmy Archer gets credit for being the original "squatting" cacther. In this respect Miller out-Archers Arch CT. With his toes only touching the ground, he literally sits on his heels. When ball is low, he is right there to dig it out of the turf. When it is high, he is in perfect condition to get flying spring and goes up as high for them as any man in the busi- ness. Likewise he can leap to either side with equal facility. But the main tulIlS IS luIS-IC Call uuCOIh u UullCL throw from any position. If the bats man is left handler and apparently in the way of his arm, he twits that member over his head in an odd sort of backhand motion and gets the same amount of speed into the hurl. Miller never signals for a pitchout accord ingly, and as result, the pitcher does not get himself in the hole, but the batter instead.
 Moreover, the Brooklyn pitchers do not waste throws to the bases to hold a runner close so as to break up the hit and run play or make steal hard. They let the runner get practically all the lead he wants because Miller's wing is so swift and sure that he can cut them down anyway. This saves the strength of the twirler for use on the batters. However, if the runner