The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-07
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BY GEORGE r. HOLMES.
United Press staff Correspondent

Oh8C oSaAsih5S, sctcfdu ~ tuc
managing game. steercd q gang of
baseball misfits into National lea
que pennant. and thence into . world
championship. George Conan dubbed
him "The Miracle Man" The name
stuck. Stallings was Miracle Man.
Now it's up to somebody to invent
name for John Patrick Moran.
For If ever & baseball manager de-
served some sort of laudatory title.
that manager is red-headed Patrick.
He did, and he didn't, Alexander
wasn't the terrible. shooting cons.el-
lation he now is until Moran was
pitched somewhat precipitatedly into
HIS managerial berth. He vas
rattlin' good pitcher, but not al i'm
mortal last year. This year ne is
both. The records show that Alex
has won 80 games. Thirty games
do not win a pennant in anybody's
league.
Stallings had crew of baseball
nobodies. among which we're three
good pitchers, and second base
men. Moran had pitcher, a catch
CIR and a first baseman who could
slug the ball. The rest didn't
amount to much. They were--Iike
Stallings' heirlooms-misfits, shunt-
ed from club to club. There we're
three men, all stars, whom Moran
could see spelling what little ball
club he had. Trey were Magee,
Philly slugging fixture; Hans Lob
ert, credited with being best third
baseman in the league, and Charley
Doom, whom he had deposcd as
manager. Magee WIS sent to Bos-
ton, Lobert to New York, and Doom
to Cincinnati in deals which were
laughing stock of the league for a
while. Moran got beautifully stung,
they figured. For Magee, he got
George Whitfield and Oscar Dugey,
both Brave irregulars; for Doom he
got Bert Niehoff. and for Iaobert,
came Demaree, collapsed Sensa-
ticn, and Milton Stock, whom Nc
Graw had tried for three years to
make first baseman of. and failed
First base YVES filled. Second was
a huge aperture through which
Moran in his dreams could see game
after game slipping away. Niehoff
was a comparative youngster, having
seen but one year in the Big Time.
Moran plugged second with Nichoff
3 At short there was hole, left
there since the assertion of the in
imitable Mickey Doolan. From the
Pacific coast, Moran reached out
and grabbed youngster-Ba Bancroft.
Today there isn't shortstop in any
league that has anything on this
bird.
The hole at third was regular
canyon. Moran took Bobby Byrne.
a cog OF Fred Clarkes old 1909
champions, and alternating him with
yong Milton Stock, got by.
Here is one exception in the build
ing up of an infield which has stood
up under the strain of setting pen
nant pace against such famous in
ner defenses as Schmidt Evers- Ma
ranville and Smith, and Merkle-
Doyle-Fletcher and Lobcrt, and ii
was built at moments notice.
Moran was lucky? Yah, so were
Jess Willard, Percy Haughton, the
Leland Stanford crew, Bill Johnston,
Bob Gardner, and others who came
through in the face of monumental
odds.
In the outfield, Pat had Dode Pas
kert. veteran of rather doubtful
stability and Cactus Cravath. anoth-
er veteran. noted solely for his long
drives when he connected. which
wasn't by any means regularly
There was also Beals Becker, a sort
of baseball nomad, who had seen
service under many managers. Mo
ran alternated Becker with Whitfield
until he had his outer works running
smoothly There was the hole left by
smuggling Sherry securely stopped.
Who is Pat Morans
Pats just a big. red-readed. red
faced freshman who doesn't know
when he's licked and doesn't know
any more than Just TO do the best
he can VITA what he's got. he never
vas O. star ball PLAYER, as stars go.
John Patrick confesaes 10 80 years
he first yelied for more feed IN
Frehbufs Nass and broke into the
game la t>ae a. a part al the Lyons
ciub ia ,he New York Jungle oireelt
The club went iluoey a. the end pi
tue asSf season. and Par tied ap hls
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