The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-11
McGraw Head and Front.

Ut IUG uldHtS Won lHt Dcu0dUI DJ
wide margin. Why's The answer is,
McGrawI lie took his ordinary, ME
chanical ball players and made them
into a machine. Then he oiled the ma
chine with his own wonderful fighting
spirit, supplied the brains that his men
lacked, thought for them, acted for
them and did about everything but
play the game for them.
With any other manager except Nc
graw at the helm tho Giants never
would have been in the race last year.
When the team crumpled up early in
the summer and seemed TO have gone
to pieces utterly, other managers would
have felt that there was no chance to
finish in the lead. But McGraw was
different. He never gave in and he
never let his men quit. The more they
were pummeled and pounded around
by their rivals. the faster he sent them
back at their opponents.
The situation in 1918 was no excep-
tion TO what il has been in other years.
Fate seems to have ruled that each wear
Mack is to have a wonderful galaxy
OF brainy players and that McGraw Is
to have nothing but mechanical mon.
Giants Lack Brains.
Look over the list of men who have
played on the Giant team since Nc
Graw took charge back IN 1903. Ex-
cepting Mathewson, there never has
been one man on the Giant roster who
compared in brains with Eddie Collins,
Danny Murphy, Harry Davis and the
other heady men that Mack has had.
Mack started in the American league
with team noted for its brains. And
it seems that each year when some star
has dropped from the Athletic firma-
ment another has risen to take his
place. Always on the Athletics roster
have there been men of brains, men
who could do their own thinking, who
could plan their own actions.
In McGraw'S case he has had under
him year after year, only men who were
mechanical baseball stars, with Ma
thewson the exception, OF course Yet
he has taken these men, lent them some
of his own brains, aroused their latent
fighting blood and has kept the Giants
at or around the top for ten years.
How many will dispute us. when. we
say that Mack. at the head Of the 1919
Giants, would not have hreezed home a
winiierl Mack would haze been a fail
,lre as manager of the Giants. and
would be failure as the manager of
any tenn numbering on its roster men
of such caliber as the present day
Giants.
McGraw a Driver.
The Giants must be driven, not led.
Mack can lead. but he can't drive. The
Giants must be nagged. scolded, abused,
almost maltrcated TO get them to do
their best work-and 10 keep them
keyed up to the highest tension Can
anyone who knows Mack-kindly, gen
tie, fatherly Mack-imagine him driv-
ing his players. abusing them, calling
them names and threatening them with
everything short of assassinatioug
Mack directs his men from the bench.
using IL score card, lead pencil, his
fingers, his legs as the means of i'm
parting signals But he gives signals,
directs his men in this fashion only in
a crisis At other times be let's them
think for themselves, act for them
selves, And his men have shown
through the years that they are capable
of doing it,
But II Mack adopted the same tactics
with the Giants, what a sorry spectacle
would be presented. Without McGraw
ON the coaching lines. shouting orders,
mapping out their plan of battle, the
Giants are hclplesSly at sea. Thes'- play
as men in da9e; ls men without tho
power to think Of TO act intelligently.
Mack and McGraw are alike in one
Both are believers in the the
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