The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-29

ENDS ON DOMINEERING
WAYS FOR DISCIPLINE
- Old Timers ON His Club
uxnish the Baseball Brains
For Him


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~ RALPH h. Y0NKER.
- HEY are calling George stallings
[ fne Miracle Man OF the National
Game. They are bombardine
with oweet-sounding words and
bouquets. They are calling
~ him to accomplish the hitherto
11nGly impossible thing OF oustine
= Giants from first place In the Ma
- league by showing the Boston
1voo 70 the top.
* The magnificent battle the Bos
NIub has put up Stallings has been
~ nearly every bit OF praise. He
ooo0 credited with taking bunch
cqoto6o from the majors and max.
q ponnantchasing club OF them.
All of which has caused an old
@cceN man Ia Detroit who has fol
eQ the maze Of the playing and
<@cn1 sides Of the game for q long
g russ and fume and boil with
~ there was ever an over-rated
poa1l manager In the world, It Is
1890 6tallings,' says the man with
wrath. 'Stallings made the
4yoo StalIings IL winning the pen
1ti Woofl It's rot!
DU you remember when StaIIfnRs
~ The manager OF the Detroit club
qn e was nrst q member of the
er1can league, In 1900 and 1901 ?
enlilnes show anything like
mp!onship management then? He
not!
That's long time for fan to
ncmber, but II seems to me that It
~ n June Of 1901, the year that the
<kolt club finished third. that Stall
no WAS suspended by President
3oon for week while the club
~ playing 1t Kansas City. Stallings
hated 80 BY his players that when
came back to the bench they told
they could set along without him
right and advised him to SIT In
kfandstand the rest OF the season
- wanted TO see the club go right
my Casey managed the club, prac-
~, Tor the rest Of the season, and
q we'll"
oso the fan relspsed into more
ooant reminiscence.
mat weo fine gang Stallings had.
to were Ducky Holmes, Joe Yea
4lmmy Casey. Frank Owens, Jack
~, Eddie Siever, Lou McAllister.
k Dillon, Jack Ryan. Frisk and
MAY. Some Of the boys are now
~ Some OF them are business
Ia A Detroit and other cities. Ducly
Deg u managing the Saginaw
Doe Yeager Is Montreal property
4cAllistor II Brown scout. IL
a. team. then, not Stallings.
ILlA9D y man who depends
Aio domineering ways. He
eong his young ball players into
rs what he wants them to and he
x1 the old heads who can't be
<pneG to do as they please. He
baseball expert, az Is Connie
and some others. He drives his
md relies on the brains OF the
Cf them for his thinking.
(4)llngs came to Detroit after try
- vain 70 make good at Phila-
o He had an aggregation of
1l that Included Map Latoie,
1o and Lave Cross. Elmer Flick.
Uao1e. I'd Delehanty, Big Jack
- and others. He couldn't han
1X1D X1k WL0 CIcWs 0OWcveIs auQ
e up % . bad Job.
>r6lt fans we're very sore at Stall
when he WAS the Yankees man
~ that time the great sign
~ was brought out and Il IL
tnof gtaIlingB would have been
11 from baseball II II had not
lor the Kindness Of Frank Ma
Dtoe1dent Of the Tigers. who by
q his head could have pushed
~ Burns, who owned the Detroit
when 8tallines was the manager,
1voo that his former empioye II
e The best judges OF q baseball
kn1lines never gained any great
DI1E1ty here said Burns today,
couoo Of his peculiar disposition.
~ 3 man who kept his players
H1ornt1on. He could lick almost
@ fhom, and was willing 70 do 30
~ ho6 %. We finished fourth one
ana third another under Stall
ota1lines strong point 10 his
Nv % Judge pIayersr
nslllnep must be given credit. even
<hooo who don't like him. for know
r0od thing when he sees II. He
= team composed almost alto
~ q biz league club discards and
Who have stalled along for sew
rooro N the international league.
IN ROBS ALMA GIRL
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