Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-12
HERZOG SAYS THERE IS NO LUCKIN GAME
 OF BASEBALL
Peppery Manager of Cincinnati
 Reds, Former Giant Star, De-
 Clares That There Is no Such
 Thing as Luck in the Game.
Successful Red Director Adds
 That Every Good Play Is the
 Result of Accurate Thinking, Acting and Skill; Made it Stick.

Luck in baseball? There's no such thing"
 The speaker was Charles Lincoln Herzog, one time Giant and worlds series star,who is now managing the Cincinnati Reds as few Cincinnati teams have ever been managed, says the New York Sun
 That Herzog is thoroughly sincere lin his statement became very evident within a minute after he had begun to unfold his ideas about that "un- known something" so popularly ac- credited as a big part of our national game. The most ardent supporter of | the theory that luck is a prominent factor in baseball happenings would need only to hear Herzog discuss the | Iqueston a few minutes and his ideas would change completely.
 Somebody has declared" !" continued the youthful and peppery manager, that baseball is 50 per cent luck. If that is true 1 have seen only half of the game-the other 50 per cent This :, is my seventeenth year in the major ] league and I have yet to see anything happen on the field that was not the result of baseball skill, the lack of 1t or the good or bad judgement on the part of the players involved. Ev- cry time you regard any play on the ball field as being lucky you are not giving one or more players due credit for skill and judgement.
 Illustrates His Point
 'Io give a spectacular instance Of the foolishness in making luck an- swer for happenings on the field I have only to recall two plays which occurred a few days ago while my team was playing at Philadelphia. One of my players hit a ball almost to the brick wall in center field and l Dode Paskert ran back and made a | spectacular catch. l should say that he ran back 90 feet.
 Hard luck old boy. remarked one of the Reds when the player came back to the bench after flying out. You should have had triple on that one.
 "I said nothing at the time. but | was thinking to myself how valuable an outfielder of Paskerts ability is to any ball club.
 Tn the same inning. while the Phil. lies were at the bat and my team in the field one of Dooin's men hit a fly to the outfield and it dropped about l5 feet behind one of the Cincinnati Ioutfielders. It was good for two bases and was turned into a run min ute later when the, next batter got a single Then came the third out and we went back to the bench As soon as the players had settled themselves on the bench that old luck theory broke out again.
 Talk about your luck said one of my men, what do you think of that l fly dropping for two bases and my drive being caught out near the wall Mine was a much harder hit than this lucky two-bagger.'
 Skill, Not Luck.
 That was the opening l wanted lt was the comparison of their so- called luck and our equally misnamed misfortune. Skill and the lack of it were entirely forgotten in explaining why they were successful and we had not been on a much easier play.
 You fellows don't give the other fellow credit for any skill when you charge a thing of that kind to luck ! said, breaking into the discussion. To my way of thinking, Paskerts skill is the answer that explains the difference in the two plays. Call it luck and you do an injustice to Pas. kert. If our outfeld could go back | 5O feet for a ball it would not drop as that one did It is not luck. It is skill on the one side and the lack of it 0n the other
 "The same is true Of every play in ] the game. One-handed catches are Inot the result of luck, but of the skin Iot the man who makes them. Errors |are part of the game, representing the difference between perfection in play
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