New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20
Face Weaker Western
Teams and May Length
Ell Lead Over Giants.
STALLINGS USES
PECULIAR STRATEGY
His Handling of OutfielderS
Puzzles Expert Followers
of the Game.

/ Inc boston DRIVES nave a ShahSS
I leugthen their lead in the Nauona!
League this week, for they have an
/ easy road to travel, while the way of
the Giants is beset with difficulties.
/ Chief of these difficulties are the Car
dinals from St. Louis, who are still
/ high enough in the race to possess am
| billions.
! The Cardinals have been psrticu-
! larlv effective against the Giants all
season. They will pay three-game
visit on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. The Cubs will be here on
Monday and Tuesday and they, too'
/ have done much to battle the Giants
Not until Saturday will relief come in
sight in the shape Of the tottering
| Pirates.
The Braves start their week against
the feeble team from Pittsburgh, and
after meeting Clark's men on Monday
and Tuesday, a foe of even less pre-
| tensions-the Cincinnati Reds-will
visit their town. The Reds are sched-
uled for Wednesday Thursday and Fri
day. The end of the soft snap will not
be reached until Saturday, when the
Cubs invade Boston.
! George Stallings seems to hold to
/ the theory that as far as outtielders
go there is safety in numbers. Never
! did leading team in big league race
shift players so frequently from day
| to day. lntield changes have been few
since the coming Of RED" Smith as
| third basemen. The few shifts called
! for in the inner works have been made
necessary by temperamental outbursts
OF Johnny Evers against umpires.
Hank Gowdy has had a steady job
behind the plate, and the pitchers have
| had little to complain of in the way of
undue lay-offs. As for the Ohttielders
one never knows from day to day who
will be in the lineup.
Many close observers have suspected
that Stallings has a system in his out
I field shifts. At first few explained
, that he put right-hahded hitters in
against southpaws, and left-handcrs
against right-handed pitchers.
II is true that Stallings is equipped
with two complete sets of outiieldurs
and few more, and that the left AMI
right handed theory is the basis of
his system. There is, however, more
to it than that. When the Braves were
last in New York Connolly, a left
handed hitter. was allowed to stay in
the game and face Marquard. He ma lie
two fine hits. Yet when the Giants
went to Boston on Labor Day and Nc
Graw sent Vanguard to the mound
Connolly was kept On the bench
Moran. Connolly, Devore and Gilbert
are the leading left-handed hitting out
iieldcrs OF the team. Mann, Gather and
Whitfield are a right-handed combina-
ton. But even when a southpaw pitches
Stallings is wont to leave one left
handler in and remove the others
Sometimes Connolly is the man who is
allowed to remain and sometimes il is
Moran.
When one realizes that Connolly is
the only three hundred hitter of the
Braves and is batting from 20 TO 80
of the outer garden, the system en-
ployed by Stallings becomes more and
more obscure. 1t is all very battling.
Logical or illogical, Stallings does
rot have to defend his queer moves, for
they have worked we'll. The leader Of
the Braves is not quite so we'll stocked
with uyttielders as early in the season.
The. re only seven now on the pay
roll % the club. Murray and Collins
were members of the string until re-
| Gently.
! No outfelder need lack for a job
while Stsllings has baseball club.
! The player from the outer defence does
not need to go to an employment
/ agency or anything of the sort There
+ is always room for him on the Boston
berch.
A reason has been suggested for this
! craze for outfielders. 1t is rumored
that if Boston gets into the world
series Stalings will petition the Ma
/ .ional Commission to let him station
! his seven outfelders in various far
! flung points about the grounds when
/ Home Run Baker comes to bat.
/ George Davis, the star young pitcher
/ of the Braves, who held the Phillies
! hitless, might still be a member of the
Yankees if he had not married. When
| he went to Bermuda with Chance in
! 1918 he showed a good deal of prom
| Use, but Just before the season opened
| he asked for weeks leave Of absence
| to get married.
"Go on and stick to the game" urged
| Chance, but Davis would not be dis
suaded from getting married without
delay. He went to the church and a
| little later to the minors, but when he
came back it. was with first place
team instead of trailer. Davis does
not regret having married
The news from Cincinnati is that
! Charlie Herzog will get another term
! as manager. He deserves it, for his
team seems destined to finish last.