Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-12
Rx cnRisrY MATHEWsoN.

BY the addition of Evers to the Bos-
ton club / believe George Stallings
now has a pennant contender on his
hands. If George had searched this
land far and wide for the very man he
needed for the Boston club he could
not have hit upon a happier selection
than John. He IS just the balancing
force that the young Boston infield
needs to knit it together into good
machine
Stallings was talking over his sys-
TEN of team building last summer one
day when the Giants were playing in
Boston
StalIinus Wants Speed.
Il have inherited a lot of broken
down ball clubs in my time" said the
chief, "and | have discovered that the
only way to obtain any results with
enc is to go out after all the likely
looking green talent you can grab and
select the best out of it. When took
hold Of the Boston team this year it
was made up largely of lot of worn
out veterans, who we're wearing their
futures for bustles and who had been
cast off by other big league clubs be-
cause their days of usefulness had
passed. Although these vets had lost
their speed and their arms, none had
lost his swelled opinion of himself,
which he had gathered when he had
been In is prime.
Il made up my mind could finish
last with a lot of green youngsters
who will hustle for me as well as with
a bunch of timeworn veterans, so l
began to cast the latter adrift, Now /,
at least. have some speed and some
future to my club. It is not made up
| of players ready to decay and pass
out. That is the trouble with so many
managers of tail end teams. They
are ever ready to grab at the castoff
of another leader when waivers are
asked on some veterans, because they
think they may get few more years
of baseball out of him. This is fool
ish mistake.
Evers Knows Baseball.
Johnny Evers is one of the quickest
thinkers in the big leagues and he
knows the game backwards. ! be-
lieve he could recite the rule book,
because / have never heard him slip
up on a point of the rules in any
arguments with umpires, and he has
had manv in my hearing Not many
umpires like to get tangled up in an
argument with Johnny" because he
can soap the rails for lot of them
when it comes to arguments on the
rules.
Aside from his head work. Evers is
great ball player. and l believe he
has some of the best years of his
baseball playing left in him. for he
is still young man. I look to see
him do better this season than he has
at any time since 1908. when the
Cubs took the pennant from us by a
nose and through Evers' fast head
work After that year Johnny" met
with financial reyerses and was in
an automobile accident which affect
ed his playing. am sure. The little
second bssenlan had one shoe store
in Troy, n. Y. his home town. and
/ another in Chicago, and both failed.
All his earnings were invested in the
business. as understand it, and these
losses practically broke him.
He was riding in his automobile in
Chicago one day with the sporting
writer Of q Chicago newspaper one of
his hest friends. The car collided with
a street car. and Evers' friend was
killed. This broke uD Fvers. who is
of an extremely nervous temnerament.
anyway, and, combined with money