Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-07
John PATRICK MORAN
ALSO MIRACLE MAN
Takes An Aggregation Of
Mis6ts and Wins League
Pennant
BY George B. Holmes.

!Stallings, a veteran at the managing
game, steered a gang of baseball mis-
ifits into a National league pennant,
and thence into world championship,
George Conan dubbed him "The
Miracle Man." Tae name stuck. Stall
lings was Miracle Man.
Now it 8 up to somebody to invent a
name for John Patrick Moran. For if
ever baseball manager deserved some
sort of laudatOry title, that manager
lis red-headed Patrick. Some say Gro
yer Cleveland Alexander won a pen
nant for Philadelphia and Patrick. He
did, and he didn't. Alexander WASH t
the terrible shooting constellation he
now is until Moran was pitched some
what preeipitately into his managerial
berth. He was rattlin good pitcher,
but not an immortal last year. This
year he is both. The records show
that Alex has won 80 games Thirty
games do not win pennant in any.
body's league.
Stallings mad crew of baseball no.
bodies, among which were three good
| pitchers, and second baseman. Moran
had pitcher, a catcher and first
baseman VINO could slug the ball The
rest didn't amount to much. They
were-lke Stallings' heirlooms- mis-
fits, shunted from club to club. There
were three men, all stars, whom Moran
could see spelling what little ball club
he' bad. They were Magee, a Philly
slugging fixture; Hans Lobert, credited
with being the best third baseman in
the league, and Charley Doom, whom
he had deposed as manager. Magee
was sent to Boston, Lobert to New
York, and Doom to Cincinnati in deals
which were the laughing stock of the
league for while Moral got beautiful
lily stung, they figured. For Magee,
he got George Whitted and Oscar Du,
gey, bota Brave irregulars; for Doom
he got Bert Niehoff, and for Lobert,
came Demaree, a collapsed sensation,
and Milton Stock, whom McGraw had
tried for three years to make first
baseman Of, and failed.
First base was filled. Second was a
huge aperture through which Moran in
his dreams could see game after game
slipping away. Niehoff was COM
parative youngster, having seen but
one year in the Big Time. Moran
plugged second with Niehoff.
At short there was hole, left there
since the desertion of the inimitable
Mickey Doolan. From the Pacific
coast, Moran reached out and grabbed
"a ungster-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 Byne, a cog
of Fred Clarke's old 1909 champions
and alternating him with young Milton
Stock, got by.
Here with one exception is the build.
ing up Of an infield which has stood
up under the strain of setting pen
nant pace against such famous inner
defenses as Schmidt t-Evers.Maranville
and Smith, and Merkle- Doyle Fletcher
and Lobert, and it was built at a mo.
mont S notice.
Moran was lucky! Yah, so were Jess
Willard, Percy Haughton, the Leland
stamford crew, Bill Johnston, Bot
Gardner, and others who came through
In the face of monumental odds.
In tine outfield, Pat had Dode Pas
kert, veteran Of rather doubtful sta
bility, and Cactus Cravath, another
veteran, noted solely for his long
drives when he connected, which was
not by any means regularly. There was
also Beals Becker, sort of baseball
nomad, who had seeh service under
many managers. Moran alternated
Becker with Whitted until he had his
outer works running smoothly. There
was the hole left by Singing sherry
securely stopped.
Who is Pat Moran?
Fat s Just a big, red.headed. red-faced
lrishman who doesn t know when he ,,
hcked, and doesl't Z know anv more
than Just TO do the best he can with
what he's got He never was star
ball player, as stars 90.
John Patrick contesses TO 80 wears
He first yelled for more feed in Fitca.
burg, Mass, and broke into the oame
IN 1872 as a part of the Lyons club in
the New York jungle circuit. The
club went flooey at the end of the
next seaSon, and Pat tied up his other
shlrt IN his other handkerchief and
troked up TO Cortland, New York close
10 the Canadian border. He made eat.
ing money for while there and tbe
next season hooked on with Montreal
from where the Braves signed him In
lsOO, After serving several wears nj
the Hub, he was shipped to Chicago
where he was Johnny Kings under.
study tor several years. In the winter
OF l9Os'l0. the Phils got him,
Pat S catcher by trade. But h,
hasn . worked at it for some time OF
late, Ae's been spending his time in
building up a championship baseball