Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-24

That fellow McGraw has clnch
of a job, just hanging around a ball
park for couple of hours in the after
noon and getting paid maybe 100000
year for it. And take it from me
for all his worlds ehampionship-Fye
seen him make more blunders in man
aging the Giants than you'd dream of!
Why, honestly, | have watched
games where he made mistakes that
my twelve-year-oid son wouldn't
make" 1t is such remarks as this
drifting down on the summer breeze
from the grand stand to the players
bench that cause callous spots to
form on managers disposition, I'M
less he is very careful and unless he
has too firm belief in his men and
in his own knowledge of baseball to
heed them. John McGraw says he
has heard similar remarks any num-
Der of times, let fall by life-members
of the Never-Lose club and the Little
Brotherhood of Unconsulted Napole-
ons. And with this by way of preface
he starts, in The Associated Sunday
Magazines, to inform the public Just
what the Job of creating Giants is
like. As Caesar would say, it is all
divided into three parts winning
games, handling the players and
building the team. The part the fan
sees, and the one upon which such
criticisms as the above are based, is
the first and the least trying of the
three. Yet even this branch of the
managerial task is not always: CON-
.pletely exposed to the public. If the
Giants win partly because of the, su-
perior ability that they as a team pos
sess, they also win, and doubtless
more often. by the skill with which
one John McGraw plays off their good
points against the weaknesses of the
opposing team. For example. he
states the, law of the stage of the
game" which he tries to drill into all
the men. Following this law, MeGraw
does not hesitate to change his tao
tics instantaneously, if the stage of
the game seems to him to demand it.
He says: .*...
Suppose Chicago has us by a score
OF eight to one. That is the stage of
the game where you want to get as
many men on base as possible and
keep them there The point of this is
that three men on base have greater
psychological value in unsteadying the
opposing pitcher than if there are only
one or two on.
In game against st. Louis. when
We were five runs behind at the oDen.
ing of the ninth inning, | worked on
that principle, and we won out. Early
in the; inning Murray was on second
base, with another man on first. AS
the next batter lined out a long sin.
gle, Murray tore around third for
home. Instead of permitting him to
score, however, ] waved him back to
third. 1t gave us three men on base
three dancing. shouting. gesticulating
base-runners land the st. Louis pitch
er blew un.i
We go after, different pitchers in diff
ferent WAYS Loudermilk pitched a
game for ST. Louis against us in which
he had us beaten until the sixth in
ming. ] thought that Loudermilk was
wild. / told our men to make him
pitch his head off in the first Eve in
nings: in other words. to wait him
cut. They did so: but he gained con-
troll Then with the sixth inning we
shifted tactics.
Hit everything you can reach
told them.
Loudermilk. Won see, had gone to
Dieces because of the overwork we
had forced on him by waiting.
Often when the Giants are in the
midst of hitting streak I tell the
next man who goes to bat to bunt.
This is so different from what has