Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-04
EVERS RESENTS
EFFORTS TO ROB
MORAN OF DUES
Chance and Doom Did Not
Teach Philly Leader His
Baseball Sense
PRAISE FOR STALLfNGS

The unspeakably absurd statement Of
two baseball experts, one OF whom said
that all the baseball Pat Moran knew
he learned from Frank Chance, and the
other that the Philly leader got his
knowledge from being under the price
less tutelage of Charley DOOM" are ridi-
culed In unmistakable language by Johnny
cNcrs. The scrappy second-sacker of the
Braves gives Moran the entire credit for
bringing victory 20 Broad and Lehigh, and
saws that his knowledge or the game Is
due to his own study and experience and
not from either Chance or Doom.
The idea of anybody saying that Pat
Moran learned baseball under Chance is
SO ahsurd that II should hardly be no
uced, vet such statement makes one
leCl that in justice to Pat some one ought
to say something. When IL comes down
TO brass tacks, the idea Of any one learn
ms baseball under Chance is foolish
enough, but for a man of Moran's base
Dall brains il is preposterous.
Il was with the Cubs when Moran was
on our catching staff He was then the
Drainiest catcher on the team, and what
he knew about the batters, what to pitch
10 them and what not is the sum total
OF what Chance didn't know. When we
were winning pennants for the Cubs we
were doing IT in spite Of Chance and not
OF baseball
III tell you that there were always
elght men out there who were managers
They knew just what to do under any
conceivable condition and they didn't fall
In the pinches either from lack of phy-
slcal ability or from lack of baseball in
sisht. But 1t wasn't Chance that gave
them this insight. They were men Of
experience, and, l dare say, they would
nave done better without Chance, al
though, of course, at times Frank did
play a good game at first base and was
useful at the bat before he was injured
so often by being hit in the head by
pitched balls.
But that's getting off the subject
started about Pat Moran. He is the man
who brought this Philadelphia club to
its first pennant and he Is the man
who should get all the credit. OF course
you have to have players and good ones
to win, but the Phillies have had teams
before that in my opinion far surpassed
the present one in a paper comparison.
But that paper stun doesn't win. It's
good, sound baseball and for a team OF
mediocre ability to win II is essential
that the manager do the directing and
do IL correctly. That Is Just what Moran
has done. He knows how to handle his
players and ne knows what to do on the
ball field.
'I believe in giving a manager all the
credit that is due him. I don't give
Chance the credit for managerial ability
because 1 don't think he has any. Just
look what he did In New York when ne
really had the opportunity to show some
thing. He fell down because he is not the
student of the game that he is credited
with being.
Take the case Of George Stallings. I
think that he, and ne alone, was respon-
sible for our winning the pennant last
season. know that lot of articles have
appeared in newspapers and other periodi-
calls i'm which I myself have been given
lot of credit for winning that pennant and
the worlds series. But I'll tell you now
that I should not have the credit. 1t was
Stallings, and Stallings alone.
"As for Moran getting any knowledge
from Dooin-well, you know that Doom
was manager of the Phillies when they
had a better pitching staff than they have
now, had a harder hitting team and
better defensive club. That is all that
need be said about that.
moran got his knowledge of baseball
by experience and study. He has been
keen student of the game ever since he
has been in 1t, and by constantly putting
his theories to the test he has developed
a wonderful and profound knowledge OF
baseball.
personally am delighted that Pat has
succeeded so well, and / think he will
continue his success against the Red Sox
in the worlds series"