Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
MARSANS MAY
BEMEMBEROF
GIANT OUTFIELD
Many Fans Think Cuban Would
Become a Star Under Nc
Graw's Management.
By Sam Crane.

~ UTFTELDER MARSANS. the
crack Cuban player Of the Gin
cinnau Reds, IL being promi-
nentfy mentioned, and descrvedly so,
n my opinion, as q candidate for a
regular position in the Giants out
field. and I know that Manager Nc
Graw thinks very favorably Of 'the
Havana speed marvel
Just what trade could be made be-
tween Managers McGraw and Tinker
20 bring about a deal whereby Mar
sans could become a member Of the
National League champions is a mat
tsr that no doubt could be satisfac-
torily arranged. and to mutual ad-
vantage, for Marsans would III 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.
He 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
COnulllOIS NOulu Dt Dlu'h more CON
genial to him than in Cincinnati,
where he has been almost continually
with losing team.
Needs Inspiration.
Cubans require inspiration to Doe at
heir best, and the mere fact OF Mar
sans being on a championship club
would improve his already great
sbility fully so per cent
And. believe me, his enlivenlng
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 II, was always MCGraw's
hobby; in fact, # was the Giants
manager who first saw the absolute
necessity Of speed TO keep pace with
The progression of the sport II 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
into a three time championship ag-
gregation, thereby throwing the big
gest kind OF surprise into those old
time managers who lived in the self
COHCelteu IMAGINATION IDdL LHe 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 is,
as far as the physical part goes, but
it 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,
out is also a very quick thinker He
IS a splendid fielder. good thrower and
a natural 300 hitter, and with win
ming team he would flash brighter in
all departments.
Marsans wants 10 play with tho
Giants and all Cuba wants 20 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
tinctively belonging TO us. and they
are fast proving to IFS that we do not
have q monopoly Of it.
And neither do we want to be eX-
elusive. We want the game spread
the world over We should be espe-
dally generous, too, to Cuba and
Cubans, for they were the first for
eigners q say foreigners advisedly,
because both they and we would pre-
fer "neighbors" as being more friend
ly, and thereby more appropriately to
lake up the game.