Evening journal., 1914-11-17
|SECRET Of SUCCESS
HARD WORK HE SAYS
Stallings Explains Why
the Boston Braves
Advanced
EVERY MAN
A PLUGGER

Before one can realize exactly what
sort Of a genius George T. Stallings,
.'the Miracle Man of Baseball" is. il is
necessary to know just what he mas
accomplished and how it has been done.
lie has created a team within two years
out of absolutely new material ami
with that team achieved the hitherto
unknown feat of winning a worlds SER
les in four games.
Stallings was engaged as manager OF
the Boston Braves after the close of
the season Of 1912, a season in which
the Braves finished last, position
which they held for four years. z
Here is the roster of the Boston
Braves for 1912, the year that johnny
King was the manager: Pitchers
Amttern, Brown, Tyler, McTighe, Pur-
due, Griffin, Hogg, Donnolly, Hess, Dick
son, Young Whitehouse, Brady and
Kroh; catchers-Nling, Rariden and
Gowdy; iniielders-ii -iiouser, Sweeney,
Mcdonald, Arthur Devlin, Bridwell,
Spratt, Shean, O'Rourke and Maran-
vile; utiielders-Jackson Vincent,
Campbell, Miller, Kaiser, Jones, KrlIe
and John Titus. There are only four
men in the list who got any part of
the worlds series money for 1914
Tyler. Hess, Maranville and Gowdy.
During the season of 1913 Stallings
made many changes in the roster OF
the Braves. He added James and Ru-
dolph TO his pitching staff, and the Of
fetal roster of the club at the close Of
Stallings first year, a year in which it
finished fifth, was as follows:
Pitchers - James, Strand, Rudolph,
Duchenilc, Villaxon, Luque, Davis,
Cocreham, Quinn. Crutcher, Herche,
Make, Dickson, Hess, Purdue, Tyler,
HOgg, McTighe, Gervais, c. Brown, De
Nogt, Drummond Brown, Treagresser,
Beck catchers- -Rariden, Whaling,
Gowdy; infelders-Sweeney, Maranville,
Schmidt, Deal, Martin, Schulz. Dugey,
Schwind, McCloskey. Myers, Calhoun, f.
V. Smith, Dellin, Bues, McKechnie; out
iieldcrs-Titus, Bristol, Lord, Clymer,
Kirk, Jackson, Seymour, Zinn, oyes,
Connolly, Griffith, Mann, Gilbert, Twill
ing
How many of these took part in the
worlds series?
Stallings is the first man TO win a
pennant without having on his stan
I
as a star. He is the first man to win
worlds championship with a lot Of
players regarded as castoffs, misfits
and bushers. How did he do It? Here
is his own explanation:
Il attribute a large part of what
success 1 have had in baseball to
/ this one fact:
Job.
There has been lot printed in
the newspapers in the last two
months about lucky coins. hoodoos
jinxes and superstitions in connec-
tion with me and my ball club. All
this sort of thing makes good reading,
no doubt, and / candidly acknowledge
/ that 1 have allowed superstition TO
become somewhat of a hobby with me
but after all Is said and done the Sc
cret of my success has been due to
hard work on my part and my in
sistence on hard work on the part of
my players.
"If you go into a successful store in
any line of business you will find that
all the clerks, department managers
and the owners of the concern are
hard working men. It is the easy
going concerns, the owners of which
do not work hard-and consequently
the men under them do not work hard
that are the failures.
"The successful baseball business
is just like any other successful bus
mess in this respect
81 insist that the players under me
work hard, not only in the champion
ship games, but in practice before
the games and in morning practice.
l do not want nay shirkers on my
team. If a player cannot keep up
with the others in the work lay out
for my team / have no use for that
player. He is simply a broken cog
in the wheel"