Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-24

THAT fellow McGraw has a. cinch
of job, just hanging. around ball
park for a couple of hours IN the after
noon and getting paid maybe $4,000
a year for it. And take it from me-
for all his worlds championship-I've
seen him make more blunders in man
aging the Giants than you'd dream of!
Why, honestly, have watched
games where he made mistakes that
my twelve-year-old son wouldn't
make!" 1t is such remarks as this
drifting down on the summer breeze
I from the grand stand to the players
bench that cause calIous sDots- to
form on managers disposition, I'M
less he is very careful and unless he
has too firm a belief in his men and
in his own knowledge of baseball to
heed them. John McGraw says he
has heard similar remarks any num-
Der of times, let fall by life-members
of the Never-Lose club and the Little
Brotherhood of Unconsulted Napole-
ons. And with this by way of preface
he starts, in The Associated Sunday
Magazines, to inform the public just
what the job of creating Giants is
like. AS Caesar would say, it is all
divided into three parts-winning
games, handling the players and
building the team. The part the fan
sees, and the one upon which such
criticisms as the above are based, is
the first and the least trying of the
three. Yet even this branch of the
managerial task is not always COM
tpletely exposed to the public. If the
Giants win partly because of the SUI
perior ability that they as a team pos
sess, they also win, and doubtless
more often, by the skill with which
one John NcGraw plays off their good
points against the weaknesses of the
opposing team. For example, he
states the law of the stage of the
game" which he tries to drill into all
the men. Following this law, McGraw
does not hesitate to change his tao
tics instantaneousIy. if the stage of
the game seems to him to demand it.
He says:
Supuose Chicago has us by score
of eight to one. That is the stage of
the game where you want to get as
many men on base as possible and
keep them there. The point of this is
that three men on base have greater
psychological value in unsteadying the
opposing pitcher than if there are only
one or two on
In a game against st. Louis. when
we We're five runs behind at the omen.
ing of the ninth inning, worked on
that principle, and we won out. Early
In the inning Murray was on second
base, with another man on first. AS
the next batter lined out a long sim
gle, Murray tore around third for
home. Instead of permitting him to
score, however. waved him hack to
third. It gave us three men on base
three dancing. shouting. gesticulating
base-runners-and the St Louis pitch
Ter blew up.
We go after different pitchers in diff
Iferent WAYS Loudermilk pitched a
game for St Louis against-us in which
he had US beaten until the sixth in
ming. Thought that Loudermilk was
wild. I told our men to make him
pitch his head off in the first five in
nings: in ether words. to wait him
out. They did so; but he gained con-
itrol Then with the sixth inning we
shifted tactics e
Hit everything you can reach" I
told them. -.. = .. --.
Loudermilk. you see. had gone to
!Dieces because of the overwork we
had forced on him bv waiting.
| Often when the Giants are in the
midst of a hitting streak / tell the
/ next man who goes to bat to bunt.
This is so different from what has