El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-12

M profound regret that We find
= ourself differing with our es-
teemed Chris Mathewson, ESQUIRE. 1t
IS with a sense of sorrow that we I'M
uertake TO set him right A great man,
MI. Mathewson, but we have it on
good authority that even Homer some
times nodded
A few hours ago Mr.. Mathewson ut
Lered words to the effect that Mr..
john j. McGraW never gets anything
N trade any more. There was in
Mr.. Mathewson's tone a note of deep
sympathy. He seemed TO feel that the
Horld was doing a good man a grave
wrong. Since then, however, Mr. John
). McGraW has acquired. by devious
dtckering, J. HOnus Lobert, of the
Phagged Pills, and we are constrained
II call upon Mr.. MatheWson for 4 re-
traction of his statement.
We call Mr.. Mathewson's attention
TO the fact that by the acquisition of
LoDert, McGraw may have obtained the
means of resuscitating the late Giants
and exhuming their pennant prospects
of 1915, which were supposed to be
decently inferred beneath a Boston
sod. Assuming that Mr.. J. Honus Lo-
pert can play up to his 1914, or better
and assuming, too, while we are in
the business of assumption, that Mr.
Mathewson himself pitches in his 1911.
or 1872 Iorm-We find the Giants peer
ing from the sarcophagus with ex-
pressiOns of renewed hope.
Rising So years Of age, II Is too
much to expect that J. HOnus LObert is
going to improve. but we do not ask
him to improve. We merely ask him to
remain stationary, so far as form is
concerned, or even go back a bit-go
back to 1912, when he beaned the ball
for 1927 and stole 40 bases.
May Make the Team.
Merkle, the iron doorkeeper." IL
good for several a 10
Fingers" Fletcher, the Iank-leGged,
lanternjawed picket of the short field,
Is Just in his heyday. Only Doyle Is a
doubtful quantity along the inner line
Of the Giant defence, so far as pros
pective form is concerned. With the rO-
tund LObert keeping cases correctly
down around third base, the McGraW
infield viii be about as good as any
in the National league. Lobert may
make the team anew
Chance for YOunEster.
There is a chance that Kores, or
Brainard, or some other youngster may
come leaping up out OF the Obscurity
of the training field and set the Ger
man out Of the job, but as matters
now stand experience will probably
nave the call, granting that everything
else is nearly equal, and LObert has
the experience. He may not last long;
the big league days of any man of SO
are numbered: but then, again. he may
pl owe one Of tuOSt tommy LedCn-11dIlS
Wagner-BObby Wallace exceptions to
an old rule.
A clean living fellow and gifted with
amazing speed and an amazing con-
stitutiOn. Lobert may go on for years.
If he only goes on long enough fOr
McGraW to get a youthful successor
ready there could he no dissatisfac-
tiOn with the deal. for McGraw gave to
the PhOolish Pills three men who
would probably have been turned off
by the Giants in a comparatively short
time anyway.
Devlin, Fletcher HeTzog, Shafer Her
zOg, SnOdgrasS. Stock, GTant-life has
been just one third baseman after an
other with John J. McGraW of recent
years. Some were good, and some were
not so good, but take 'em all in all we
shall probably never see the like of the
first named again. How rare they are,
those Devlins,
Stock n disappointment.
Milton Stock was probably as big
disappointment as McGraw has ever
had in his development of ball players,
A long trial finally convinced the
Giant chief that the little fellow would
never do for him. He may make an
other manager a valuable man, but he
was lacking in numerous McGrawian
requirements. The Giant leader nursed
Stock along for several seasons, hold
ing him in preference to Heine Groh,
but Milton never quite came through In
big league style.
Dcmnree About Done.
As for Albert Demaree. one Of the
finest chaps that ever pulled on a
worsted stocking, McGraw probably