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

~ UTfIELDEh MAkSANS, me
crack Cuban player of the Gin
c!nnad Reds. Is being promi-
gently mentioned. and deservedly so,
n my opinion, as candidate for &
regular position in the Giants out
field. and know that Manager Nc
Graw thinks very tavorably OF the
Havana speed marvel.
Just what trade could be made be
tween Managers McGraw and Tinker
70 bring about q deal whereby Mar
sans could become a member Of the
National League champions is mat
lsr that no doubt could be satisfac-
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 be a regular wh.rlwind 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 il 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 almost continually
with a losing team.
Needs inspiration.
Cubans require inspiration to be 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 enlivening
presence on the Giants would
strengthen them TO much higher
point than they showed in the recent
worlds series.
Marsans has all the characteristics
of born ball player-just the kind
that appeals to McGraw. Speed. and
lots of It, was always McGraw's
hobby; in fact, Il 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 az
gregation, thereby throwing the big
gest kind of a surprise into those old 10
time managers who lived IN the self
ronceited Imagination that the game
of 1873 would do for 1895.
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 az the physical part goes, hut
It can not be truthfully said that ne
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 a very quick thinker He
Is a splendid fielder good thrower and
natural 300 hitter, and with a win
ming team he would flash brighter in
all departments.
Marsans wants 10 play with the
Giants and all Cuba wants 10 have
him.
Our neighbors OF the little island 10
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
rinctively belonging 10 us, and they
are fast proving to us that we do not
have a monopoly Of II.
And neither do we want to be eX-
elusive. We want the game spread
rhe world over. We should be espe-
tally 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 &c
AXE up the game.