El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-07
RED S0y HAVE THE BETTER TEAH
FIGURES SHOW They SHOULD WIN
Carrgan Has Enough Strength in His First Team to Win
World Series, While Second Team Picked From His
Club Ought to Win the National League Pennant;
Alexander Only Element Of Danger in Phillies
BIZ HUGH 5. FULLERTON.


most Of them like him. and if they
don't like. they respect him. lie IS a
man who commands respect because
Of his sincerity, his religion. his up
righness and charity even toward
those who offend against him. Ills is
a big heart
But this old game got even Pat this
year. He ceased shaking hands ana
became a raver. and at times he could
splutter and roar as loud as Chance
or Stallings ever did
CarrfCan Is Easy Going
Carrigan is the good fellow" type.
a quiet easy going man with lot
OF judgment and balance. His players
took advantage of him for time, and
indeed, some of them did not reward
his patience and kindness any too well
this year
Moran Is Judge Of Pitchers.
Oddly enough. Moran is the an
tithesis Of CarriEan in handling a BAH
club Pats weakness is in the fact
that he does not direct the attachlns
end Of the game we'll His players 90
the attacking without much help from
their manager Players prefer this,
hut few managers viii allow many OF
their men 10 use their own judgment
Pats great strength is in directing
and planning the defence He is. be
yOnd doubt. the best judge Of pitchers
and pitching in the game. not except
luE AsldEk AuEALAAAll- ne " a. q AeAAN-ANA
for many years and is ripe IN eXper-
fence. With the Chicago Cubs, Moran
was the final Judge of the fitness OF
a pitcher. Scarcely ever did Chance
Moran had warmed up with thaI
pitcher and reported 10 Chance
whether the man was right or not
Is student Of Batters-
His success in handling and develop
ing young pitchers was great at Phlla-
delphia- He has developed half a
dozen corking hurlers and this is
chiefly due TO his tact and patience in
teaching them he IS a ciose stuoeut
of batters. checkmates their plan OF
attack well by unexpected moves IN
pitching. and yet ne has not devised
any brilliant plan Of attack Ior ms
own team Indeed, the PnllIy atla .-N
has lacked punch and has been er-
ratio and uncertain Their scoring has
been largely due 10 straight slamming
of the ball
Careful About Base Running.
Moran hasn't a great deal of speed
on his team to use for base running
purposes. and he does not believe in
much base running. using IL as sur
prise instead Of as regular diet
studied the base running OF his men
and have been surprised to find that
even the slow men have been extra
ordinarily successful in advancing
safely when they did start rms
seems to be due TO the fact that they
have known the weaknesses Of GER
tain catchers and that Moran has sent
them to run bases when he detected
weaknesses behind the plate on the
opposing team
The best feature perhaps. OF Moran
is that he has a crowd Of ball play
ers that are devoted to him and VIII
work their heads off for him. They
are pulling together and pulling for
Pat, which makes any man a pretty
good manager
CarriGan Directs Attacks.
Carrigan's strength is chiefly in di-
recting the attack Of his team, and he
does not appear TO devote enough
time to the defensive end Of the game.
Like Moran. he is a keen Judge OF
pitchers and pitching, which Is
natural. since he is a catcher.
Carrigan undoubtedly has improved
greatly as a manager Of men since he
was placed in charge Of the Boston
team But he has not yet succeeded in
getting that absolute control of them
through sympathy and good feeling
that should exist in q winning balI
club. He had material enough to win
the American league pennant in run
away style He ought TO have won II
by a city block. and he had a close
call when Detroit made its final
desperate effort Truth is, that the
breaks Of luck in two close games are
all that saved his team from losing
out You must give him credit for
rising to the emergency and squirting
his team to its greatest efforts when it
uaQ 10 De SDuIEtQ ne amer AIetAA
leaguers predicted that If Detroit ever
tied the Red Sox, Carrigan's team
would stop They didn't stop. They
fought harder than ever and won.
Red SOx Over Confident.
The Red SOX were over confident
this year They took chances and
liberties thinking no other team could
catch them They threw away a lot
OF ball games
There is no use concealing the truth.
There are too many stars on the team
for any manager to get perfect team
work from Two Of his stars have
slipped in their work this year We
discovered that in studying them We
found Lewis below par in several re-
spects. and we found Gardner not as
good a he should be and has been.
Manager Must Stand Blame.
When q team that Outclasses its
league has a hard time winning its
pennant the manager must stand the
blame for not keeping the men on edge
and working every minute. This is
not personal criticism of Carrigan-
do not think any manager coud have
done il, but part Of the managers job
is to accept the blame for all those
things and give the players credit for
everything that is good
do not think this negligent play
ing OF part of the club viii have any
deleterious effect upon its work in the
series The Red SOX gave the lie TO
the charge that they quit under
pressure by their overthrow Of Detroit
in the decisive games. and in that
get up the speed and punch when they
are needed.
World Series Stimulates.
There is nothing in the world that
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