Evening star., 1914-08-23
STALLINGS BREAKS SILENCE
AND ADMITS HE HAS A CHANGE
Tells Braves It Is Up to Them-Thinks
Giants Have Cracked and Are =,
Out of the Race

Virginia Military Academy at LeXing-
ton. va. in 1856. He played in the
minors. and then the Phillics had him
first and sold him TO Toronto. Later
Brooklyn Nationals. being released by
them in 1s90-the year the Brother
hood got in its deadly work-becausc
Charley Byrne had TO slice his salary
list and not because of poor work.
Stallings has won a raft of flags in
the minors. but never one in the ma
iors.
The Miracle Man,
The miracle man Stallinss' old title
was the big chief one of the scouts
of the New York Americans alluding
to him as "the big cheese"D used forty
FIVE athletes in putting the Braves at
the top of the second division last sea
son. This year he has called on thirty
odd pastin1ers and his team is second
here the Braves are weak is thar
they need another catcher. They APP
pear weak in the pinch hitting depart
ment, but really they are not If
Stallings does not let the pitcher bat
for himself he calls on some other
hurler to bat for him and the o. h.
generall:- delivers
The Feds took away rafting good bat
terry from Stallings last spring In Quinn
and Harden. This year The Miracle
Man has called on two backstops and
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once wasn't good enough for Cleveland
and Gowdy was discarded by New York
Looking at the pitchers who have work
ed in other cities. one finds that Rudolph
once was with the Giants. Hess once was
with the Maps. Davis once was with the
Yankees. Cottrell WAS with both the Pi-
rates and the White Elephants and
Strand once was with the Red Sox.
Seven iniielders now are being carried
by the Boston leader Schmidt once
n he 10 no
correct word. it only was once lie pitched
for theml and Deal used to be a Tiger.
Evers is an eN-Cub. Smith an ex-Superba
and Whitfield an eX-Cardinal.
Boost for Connolly.
The number of suburbanites Stailings
has used this year is eight, but the fly
chasers George from Georgia has with
him at present are Connolly. who wasn't
good enough for Clark Griffith Manu.
who played under Stallings in Buffalo:
Dcvore. who played under Stallings in
Newark and who by turns has been a
Giant. Red and Philly. Gather a
former CARDINAL Gilbert, who was with
Milwaukee in 1913. and Collins who Ii
Il pinch runner more than a pinch out
fielder.
On paper the Braves do not look i'm
presSive, but on the ball field they have
been accomplishing deeds of daring and
have rushed their adversaries off their
pins.
Pray tell where has there ever been
a club in the National League that has
made such "A record as that of the Stall
ings team in its climb from the cellar
to u near-tirst? In twenty-three days
they hurdled that gap July Is they
We're hopelessly out of the race-at least
1t seemed so. July ~ they were seventh.
the next day sixth and July Il they had
jumped to the foot of the first division.
Thus in four days they went from last
to fourth.
The progress from July Il to August 10.
when they landed second-they lost that
position the next day. but regained 1t
u day later-has been slower. because the
clubs In front had a greater margin to
overcome. but it was steady. And IL was
by consistent playing If you don't be-
lieve 1t, look at this record--from July
10 which was the date the Braves really
began to climb. until August 10, when
they took second place:
Shut ont their opponents nine times.
Won five games by score of j to o.
Won five games in the ninth inning
Won five games in extra innings.
If the Braves land the prize of the
worlds $ series they viii play the big
games at Fenway Park where 10000
people can he taken care of very com
fortably now. several thousand seats
have been put in the park since the
Series between the Giants and Red Sox.