The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07

ihent and balance. His players took ad- 'ahtage or him for a time, and, indeed, some of them did not reward his patience and kindness any too well this year. Oddly enough, Moran is the antithesis or Carrigan in handling ball club. Pats weakness is in the fact that he does not direct the attacking end of the game well. His players do the attacking with out much help from their manager Play CTS prefer this. but few managers will allow many of their men to use their own judgment. Pats great strength is in directing and planning the defense. He is, beyond doubt, the best judge of pitch CTS and pitching in the game, not ex- cepting Clark Griffith. He was a catcher for many years and is ripe in experience. With the Chicago Cubs, Moran was the final judge of the fitness of a pitcher. Scarcely ever did Chance choose his pitch CT for any game until Moran had warmed up with that pitcher and reported to Chance whether the man was right or not.
 His success in handling and developing young pitchers was great at Philadelphia. He has developed half a dozen corking kurlers and this is chiefly due to his tact and patience in teaching them. He Is close student of batters, checkmates their plan of attack well by unexpected moves in pitching, and yet he has not
 
 his own team. Indeed. the Philly attack has lacked punch and has been cratic and uncertain. Their scoring has been largely due to straight slamming of the ball.
 Moran hasn't a great deal of speed on his team to use for base running pur- poses, and he does not believe in much base running, using it as surprise in- stead of as regular diet. I studied the base running of his men and have been surprised to find that even the slow men have been extraordinarily successful In advancing safely when they did start. This seems to be due to the fact that they have known the weaknesses of certain catchers and that Moran has sent them to run bases when he detected weakness behind the plate on the opposing teaen.
 The best feature, perhaps. of Moran is that he has crowd of ball players that are devoted to him and will work their heads off for him. They are pulling to- gether and pulling for Pat. which makes any man pretty good manager.
 Carrigan's strength is chiefly in direct ing the attack of his team. and he does rot appear to devote enough time to the defensive and of the game. Like Moran, he is keen judge of pitchers and pitch ing which is natural, since he is a catcher.
 Carrigan undoubtedly has improved greatly as manager Of men since he was placed in charge of the Boston team But he has not yet succeeded in getting that absolute control of them through sympathy and good feeling that should exist in a winning ball club He had ma terial enough to win the American league pennant in runaway style. He ought to have won it by city block; and he had close call when Detroit made it's final desperate effort. Truth Is, that the freaks of luck in two close games are all that saved his team from losing out You must give him credit for rising to the emergency and spurring his team to it's greatest efforts when 1t had to be spurred. The American leaguers predict ed that if Detroit ever tied the Red Sox, Carrigan's team would stop. They didn't stop. They fought harder than ever and won.
 The Red Sox were over confident this year. They took chances and liberties, thinking no other team could catch them. They threw away a lot of ball games.
 There is no use concealing the truth. There are too many stars on the team for any manager to get perfect team work from. Two of his stars have slipped in their work this year. We discovered that in studying them. We found Lewis below par in several respects, and we found Gardner not as good as he should be and has been.
 When a team that outclasses its league has hard time winning it's pennant, the must stand the blame for not keeping the men on edge and working ev- cry minute. This is not personal criticism of Cardigan. I do not think any man.