New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

timOrC, where | Ndl lLtNNl lpl A'dl' "'l'
after breakfast went straight TO Friedman
Office.
aNlav | see a list of players under con-
tract 10 the club?" ! asked him.
He showed me list with t"enty-three
names on the payroll
"Havc YOU a pencil" ! asked.
4 little puzzled, he gave me one, and !
proceeded 90 scratch of names until | had
reduced the list TO twelve
81 can finish in last place with twelve
PLAYERS lust as easily as ! can with twenty
three. said by SD doing YOU will save
fifteen thousand dollars in salary, and as
these men cost YOU only ten thousand dol
lars YOU save five thousand net right OF the
reel
Naturally this appealed to him. had
brought with me Mccain. Brcsnahan and
NcGinnitv from the Baltimore club. 1t
was the time of the war between the Nation
al and American Leagues, and it was. a case
of grabbing PLAYERS at any cost. | was told
that | could spend as much as | wished.
Among other stars | purchased Dclchanty,
Fielder Jones, and George Davis; but these
three PLAYERS were awarded 10 other clubs
after peace was made between the warning
leagues. Still bv trades and purchases |
place in 1903. and in 1904 TO win the PEN
nant. In 1905 we won the worlds cham.
pionship; but my team was composed OF
older and unruly men.
Like most old PLAYERS, they knew more
than did, and it came to a pass where they
refused to take orders. The result of this
was shown in 1906, when they went out on
their own hook, became more difficult to
boss. and tried to take things into their own
hands. They were all veterans. They were
men who helped me win championships, and
| hated to let 90 of them; but ! saw that
they were slowing up. knew | should have
to let the old blood out and instil young
blood into the Giants The trouble was at
shortstop and first base. Dahlen and Nc
Gam were getting old. At third had Dew
lin, Young man, Just out of Georgetown
University. At second later came Doyle, a
young recruit from Springfield. Let me di
gresS for a moment about Doyle.
In the first game Doyle, now captain of the
Giants, played with us. He made about
ten errors saw him in the clubhouse after
ward, and he was packing all his belongings
into bag.
"What are you doing?" | asked.
"Going back" he said tersely. 81 guess
| don't belong here
Then and there had a talk with Doyle,
and he stayed; although the New York
newspapers tried to run him out of baseball.
Today they cannot praise him too much.
put / was worrying about the old, creaky
- parts of mymachine. In the winter of 1907
| let Bowerman, Brown, Ferguson, Dahlen,
and Mccain all 90 to Boston in return for
Bridwell, Tenney, and Needham. Bridwell
was young and fast. Tenney, the king OF
first basemen in his time, was nearly all in.
But he would be valuable man to have
with a team of youngsters such as | was
going to build. He could teach them the
tricks of the game and steady them down:
Needham was an old and foxy catcher, good
for coaching young pitchers.
The New York newspapers gave me a
roasting for this trade; but of course paid
no attention to them. | had steeled myself
against newspaper criticism. never let
sporting editor manage my club, as IS done
in Cincinnati. Out there they roasted Hank
O. Day, the present Chicago manager, as
soon as he began to lose with the Cincinnati
club, and broke him. They ran Lobert, Zim-
norman, and Clark Griffith out OF Cincin-
natl. ! had vowed not to let the newspapers
run my ball club; 50 paid no attention to
their roast.
The trade with Boston was the start OF
the reconstruction of the present New York
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