Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-18
TRAVELLING BRAVES ARE STILL COMING
 TO LADDER HEIGHTH
One Month Sees Them Climbing From Pits to Heights in Pen
 nant Chase-StallingS Man.
 agement in Large Responsible

] ntth holit hNiA VT d hdhFNaAl HFiHhAiNN before the final drop of the curtain. The present season is to be no ex- ception to the rule, thanks to the fact | that we have with us Mir. G. Stallings land his fighting Braves.
 In all parts of our fair land there are to be found baseball ginks who conted that a manager Is nothing more than figurehead. that the play OTIS are the whole works and would win just as many games without pilot This contention might hold good in the case of some ball teams, but not in the case of George.
 When Stallings took charge of the Braves last season he found what looked to be the poorest baseball out fit this side of saux enter He canned several players obtained some good material, rinled the team a couple Of times by turning it mp side down and wrong side out, and finished the season a couple of notches higher than the cellar, which was the ac- customed abiding place of the Braves. This season Stallings started out with what he called a regular ball team. He declared that with the ad- dition of Evers and few promising recruits his team would be found ! fighting all the way Disregarding the loss of Pitcher Jack Qinn and Catcher Bin Raiden to the Feds. stallings went right ahead repairing his broken line up.
 But when the season started he team couldn't win. Game after game was lost and the Boston fans began to speak Of the Braves as the same old punk outfit they had watched for ten years or more. It certainly was discouraging to Stallings. but he kept both feet on the ground and plugged away in an endoavor 10 find a win ming combination
 The team continued to inhabit tbs cave until the first of July when the ! crew edged near enough to the ent. rance to see daylight Apparently a little sunshine was all the Braves needed. for they started to win and kept right on winning They won SO many games that they put the season record of the Athleucs-22 won out of 2S gaWes-into the discard.
 Naturally the almost continuous winning of the Braves enabled them to climb, which they did with neatness and despaoh. Coin up the pennant ladder from last place to within strik ing distance of the top is some climb. And the Braves accomplished this nifty pice of work inside of four weeks. New there are baseball bugs rash enough 10 predict that the Bean ies will capture the 1914 National league pennant
 Stallings himself does not claim pennant for his team Like most veteran pilots George believes that claiming a championship before it is cinched is sure to cause jody to be slapped on the team Consequent ly he is attending strictly to the busi. ness of the game and leaving all pre-. | diotions to the clairvoyants.
 or the players Stallings has under his command Johnny Evers is un- doubtedly the best known. The "Key- stone Kink," as the great second sack CT is known, is putting up just as brilliant a game for the Braves as he ever furnished while wearing the uniform of a Chicago club.
 Then there is Rabbit" MamavilIe. The "Rabitt might rlghtfuny be cal led stallings' own. for George took the little fellow as a raw recruit and developed him into one of the great. est shortstops baseball has ever pro. duced
 Deal, at the hot corner. has been
 tried in fast company before and cast adrift stallings grabbed him put him through a course of sprouts and turn.
 ed him out a first class third base
 man.
 Over the first station Big" Schmidt
 has furnished the biggest surprise [,
 the Boston fans When the bugs got
 their first look at Schmidt they had
 to laugh Some one had ddded stal
 lings Into the belief that Schmidt wa.
 a ball player, when in reality the bil . fellow would look better hitched tC The parks lawn mower But Georg, maintained that Schmidt had th, goods and the biz first sacker ha verified the assertion.
 Headed by Rudolph. James and Ty
 Ter the pitching stan of the Brave Q is second to none in the game. whil ' the catching department is ably look ed after by Gowdy and Whaling.
 The Braves are also we'll fortlfie
 in the outfield Among their sta , Rardners are Dev0re. Connolly. Manr ' Gilbert and Whitted
 o Whether or not the Braves cop Co !, pennant this season they win hay [. the satifaction of knowing that the e threw a terrible scare into more Una ,f one team before the championshi e race was finished
 Pr Having been tipped off that severi h futura greafe are to he found in fh