New Britain herald., 1915-02-06
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BY GRAVY

Patrick J. Moran, the new leader of the Philadelphia National league club IS an old-timer at the national game. He will begin his fortieth year tomor- row, having been born in Fitchburg, Mass, Feb. 7, 1876, and he has been playing professional ball since 1897. Like his predecessor as pilot of the Phillies, Charley Dooin, he has always been a backstop by trade. After quit ting the active practice of his profess sion in 1912, he became a coach for the Philadelphia Nationals, and it was his work in that capacity that gave the Philadelphia management the idea that Pat had the makings of man. ager.
 Moran was a catcher from the very beginning of his baseball career and with the exception of a brief expert ence as third baseman in Boston sew eral years ago has never played any other position. When he broke into the game with the Lyons club of the New York State league in 1897 he had just passed his majority. He caught 9. couple of seasons for Lyons, and in 1899 he got a boost up the ladder with the Montreal team of the Eastern league. After a couple of seasons in the Canadian metropolis Moran broke into the major league company with the Boston Nationals in 1901. Pat spent five years in the Bean City, and in 1906 he went to the Chicago Cubs.
 Moran was with the Cubs during he of ho cy1o of J,o famous baseball machine led by Frank Chance. As the able assistant of lawn Kling, he helped the Cubs to win three National league pennant3 in a row. In 1910 Moran became the property of the Philies, and with the club he rounded out his career as a catcher.
 The Phillies have suffered severely in the last year, and Moran has stiff job on his hands in attempting to bolster up the weak spots. He has . number of promising youngsters whom he hopes to develop to fill the places of the vanished stars of form CT years.
 The club which Pat Moran has un- dertaken to manage is the hard-luck aggregation of the National league Philadelphia won the first pennant of the old National association, the pred ecessor of the National league, in 1871 but since the organization of the Ma t1onal league Philadelphia has never floated a pennant of thatc ircuit. The old Philadelphia Athletics club was d charter member of the National league in 1876, but was expelled after the first season. In 1883 Philadelphia was restored to membership in the N1 16 ma mo oiy ,1it New York was, admitted. Alfred J. Reach was the first president of the Philies, and held that job ten years The Phillies have had many heads and numerous managers in the thirty-one years the club has existed. but the coveted rag has always eluded them
 The Phillies first looked like flag contenders in 1887, when the club finished second in the race. For eight years thereafter the Quakers were q flrst-division bunch, but not quite good enough to gain the lead. In 1901 the Phillies again got into the running and finished second. After another slump they again began to climb up. In 1911 Red" Dooin was made mana ger, and the Philadelphia fans began to believe that the brick-topped back stop was the Moses who would lead the team out of the wilderness. In 1913 the Phillies put up a game strug- gle and hope beat high in the breasts of the bugs. The star of i'll fortune was still in the ascendant, however, and the Phillies had to be satisfied