South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-28

BY JOIN j. EVERS.

We are not claiming the National
league pennant; we are trying to win
t. It is bad luck to claim anything.
But the feeling in the Boston club
today is exactly the same as that the
Chicago Cubs had the first year we
won the pennant. There is the SANE
cooperation, the same working to-
gether all for the team and no one FOR
himself; the same feeling not of con-
fdence. but of determination TO win.
We realize that we are a young club
and that we are not a club that wins
by Outclassing it's rivals but by out
playing them and we are trying TO do
IL by team work and earnest work.
/ have been asked a hundred times
how Boston is winning and have only
one answer and that answer is Stall
ings. This is not the bunk that a
player sometimes hands out to his
manager. l have worked for some
great managers. and Stailings to me,
IS a marvel in handling men. If you
want proof of this. look over his
teams past and present.
Every man who ever played for
Stallings is crazy 10 get back and play
for him again. His team is filled with
men who have played for him in the
past. somewhere. and they tell me he
was the same everywhere.
I an n a peculiar position talking
about NY manager. I was a manager
and il is awkward to comment on him.
His methods are not the same as mine.
but we never have differed. He IS
the most Open-minded of managers,
the hardest loser and the most char
table toward the players after game
IS over
In lot of ways he reminds me of
Chance during a game and their meth
eds are "A lot alike. They hate TO lose.
No one in the world knows any more
baseball than Stallings does. and no
one ever have seen can get more out
of his players. They are loyal TO him
and would work their heads off for
him and that is what wins.
They are saving around the circuit
that our team Is not strong. Com
pairing il. man for man. with some
others man for man. perhaps il is not.
Take our Catchers. Gowdv was not a
good catcher this spring or maybe
things We're breaking wrong for him.
Everything he tried turned out wrong.
lie blundered and sweat. but ne al
ways was working and trying and
learning. He has developed wonder
fully and today I believe he is the best
catcher in the league. bar none. He
has had a tough season and instead of
breaking up under 1t he has improved
steadily.
Our pitching STAFF IS going i'm great
shape Rudolph. James and Tyler
are pitching about as good ball as any
three men in the country. We have
three others crazy TO get in there and
help out and they are working almost
as hard as the three are To be ready.
Not one OF them shows any signs OF
weakening as yet and I DO not think
they will.
Maranville is playing the best short
stop in the league. he is marvel
We have two corking third base
men. Smith was a wonder when he
first went TO Brooklyn and should
have kept il up. He played one year
a. we'll as anyone He started at the
same gait as soon as he Joined us.
He has been playing magnificent ball
and his fielding has been sensational
our outfeld will be greatly strength
ened by having Herby Moran. We
have been uncertain in the outield
all season. because some OF the fellows
have been In and out Of playing con-
dition Moran will be "a wonderful
help as q reinforcement and Will add
20 the hitting strength.
give Stalhngs credit for making
the team what IL il. His daily talks
on baseball are worth a years salary
20 a player IN what he viii learn.
Stallings can stand up there for half
an hour and talk or the game or the
day before. never using note or
score. and call attention 70 dozen
plays that the players either did not
see or had forgotten. He has been
wonderfully patient with us. and the
fellows have learned more about base
ball this season than the average
player does In three years.
III we go through and win this pen
uanf II will ne because 81 team work
Stallings has taught as the team work.
OF course We make blunders, but We
do not make them often. The next
time every man knows just what the