The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-07
TIME TO GIVE
MORAN A TITLE
Il
Is as Much a Miracle Man az George
staIIings Of the Boston
Braves Was Last
Year.
WHAT HE HAS DONE
How He Picked Up Team From All
Over the Country and Moulded
It Into Pennant
Material.
WHAT HE HAS DONE
by George r. Holmes, United Press

/ NEW YORK. Oct when George
Stallings, veteran at the managing
game. steered a gang of baseball mis-
/ fits into National league pennant.
and thence into world championship,
George Cohan dubbed him THE Mir
acle Jan The name stuck. Stall
! ings was miracle man.
| Now it's up to somebody to invent
"a name for John Patrick Moran. For
| II ever a baseball manager deserved
some sort of a laudatory title, that
manager is red-headed Patrick. Some
say Grover Cleveland Alexander won
| a pennant for Philadelphia and Pat.
/ rick. He did. and he didn't. Alexan-
! der wasn't the terrible. shooting con-
! ste1lation he now is until Moran was
pitched somewhat precipitately into
his managerial berth He was a rat
tim good pitcher. but not an immor-
| tai last year. This year he Is both.
The records show that Alex has won
thirty games. Thirty games do not
win pennant in anybody's league.
Stall,ngs had crew OF baseball no.
i bodies, among which were three good
| pitchers, and second baseman. Nor
ian had pitcher, catcher and first
baseman who could slug the ball. The
rest didn't amount to much. They
were-like Stallings' RELATIONSHIPS
fits. shunted from club to club. There
were three men, all stars. whom Nor
an could see spelling what little ball
club he had They were Magee. a
Philly smuggling fixture: Hans Hobert.
credited with being the best third
baseman in the league and Charley
Doom, whom he had deposed as man
ager Magee was sent to Boston. Lo-
bert to New York, and Doom to Gin
cinnati in deals which were the laugh.
ing stock OF the league for while
Moran got beautifully stung, they f1g-
ured. For Magee, I, he got George
Whitfield and Oscar Dugey, both Brave
irregulars; for Doom he got Bert Me
hoff, and for Lobert. came Demaree,
collapsed sensation. and Milton
Stock. whom McGraw had tried for
three years to make a first baseman
of, and failed.
First base was filed. Second was
huge aperature through which Nor
an 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 Niehoh.
At short there was hole. left
there since the desertion of the inimit-
able Mickey Doolan. From the Pacific
coast. Moran reached out and grabbed
oungster-Bancroft. Today there
isn't shortstop in any league that
has anything on this bird.
The hole at third was a regular can
yon. Moran took Bobby Byrne, cog
of Fred Clarke's old 1909 champions,
and alternating him with young Mil
ton Stock, got by.
Here with one exception In the
building up Of an infield which has
stood up under the strain of setting a
pennant pace against such famous In
ner defenses as Schmidt. Evers. Mar
awhile and Smith. and Merkle. Doyle,
Fletcher and Lobert. and 1t 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 out6eId. Pat had Dode Bias.
kert. a veteran OF rather doubtful sta
biItty. and Cactus Chayath, another
veteran, noted solely for his long
drives when he connected, which
wasn't By any means regularly. There
was also Bea1s Becker, a SORT OF base
hall nomsd, who had seen service IN
der many MANAGERS. Moran alternat-
ed Becker with Whitfield until ne mad
his outer works running smoothly.
There was the hole left by Struggling
Sherry securely stopped.
Who f. Pat Moran
Pats just big, red,heafed. red
faced Irishman who doesn't kno"
when he's licked, and doesn't know
any more than just 10 DO the best ne
can With vha. he's Eot. He never was
a star ball player. a. stars go
John Patrick confesses 10 ~ years'
He first yelled for more fsc1 ~ Fi.cn.
burg Mass.. and broks into the ram
in 1897 az part Of the Irons club IN
the New ycrk ifns1s Circuit ~bs club
went fioocy q. the sBd NJ the nest sea,
son. and Pat tied up hiz ofbrr sn'f,
| in his other handkerchief and freks1
IN to Cortland, ge1 7lrk, ejoss ~
! the Canadian brrGer tfe mafs fafjra