Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
5TlLI..LI.INCS BEST
JUDGE IF YOUNG
BALI. PLAYERS
Boston Manager Is Usually Given
Difficult Task of Building Up
Teams From Nothing.
Bv Sam Crane.

TANAGER GEORGE STALL
I'M INGS is considered to be
about the best judge of young
bal players there is in the country.
prominent rival manager of Stall
lngs i'm the National League, whose
reputation in developing promising
Fyo1ngste-s is national said not long
ago when the leader of the Boston
Braves was the subject of a tanning
q. WHY, StallingS can smell a good
ball player. 1t seems to be almost
second sight with him 20 select Just
ap player he needs
SlaJHngs' success with the Braves
asst season in bringing them up to Il
|near factor in the race when many
|crtlrs thought they were as consist
IN, tail enders as the st. Louis
Browns in the American League.
stamps him as a constructive man
lager and how many managers are
here now that have built Winnin s
eams from the ground up as has
|Sa,lings?
There is little trouble 70" any man
lgar who knows anything at all about
baseball and handling men to make
success Of a ready made winning
eam handed to him with his con-
tract and it was under those favor
able conditions that many of the So
allied successful managers. of to-da y
made their regulations.
Had to Bui'o Teams
>taliings has always, when he has
aAen charge of clubs. been forced To
build up-to construct 81. winner from
most nothing. That's was the situa
'au that faced him when he took
large of the Yankees, the Detroits
ar Buffalos. the NeWarks and the
Boston Braves and it is to his credit
That lie was successful with all. He
uses Characteristic methods. possibly
peculiar 10 himself, on the bench, and
Hsas rough language at times. He is
IA ndrd loser but he gets rerults. the
winning kind, and that is what he is
hired for.
! There are some players who have
picked over Stallings' bench methods
Fin alling them down for bone plays
and have knocked him numerically,
but it is my opinion they are the
him skinned fellows or old players
VINO are on the wane and on the verge
Z falling into the has been" class
NJ else veterans Whc have been aCcus =
|amed TO easy going. neatly mouthed
nanagers, who were holding on to
heir Jobs by the skin of their teeth
nd who allowed the stars, SO Gale !,
.o dictate to them.
Manager Joe Tinker. when he first
took charge Of the Cincinnati Reds,
found some of that class of hold
overs. particularly pitchers, who con-
Sldered it a breach Of managerial
manners to be called on to work when
they themselves did not think it was
their turn.
T. Tinker Had His Way.
= Me pitch! Who, me, Why, this
'snt my day. | don't go in until to-
morrow" were the usual replies in
answer to Manager Joe's orders, until
Ihe established a new precedent n
nainnati by making his unwilling
pitchers go into the box when he
bought they should, not when thay
Imagined it was their turn
Another pitcher, who was with the
Yankees at one time, when told he
|pas 20 pitch one day, replied: Not
ME. Why, this isn't my kind Of
|Taather.'
Those are probably the kind of
mpered players who have seen fit
% knock Manager Stallings and his
|melnods They didn't agree with his
ung upside down the unwritten
pitchers law of going in only when
|taoy thought was the proper time.
II there were more managers Of
|S,a,ings' constructive ability and
Judgment in the National League. that
old big three combination Of consist
|eu' Winners-Giants Cubs and Pr
|raies-would be more badly smash I'd
nan last season, when the Phillies
broke into second place