South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-01
GREAT LEADERS
To PILOT TEAMS
IN COMING TEST
Moran and Carrigan Have
Shown Ability to Handle Men
in PinCheS--Edge Goes
to PhiIIie Manager.
BY Frank G. Menke.

NEW YORK. oct 1.-Success-and
failure-in q world series clash de-
ponds very largely upon the manager;
upon the strategy, the altertness, the
GOODNESS and the courage OF the lead
er IN critical moments.
When the Red SOX meet the Phil
lies next week in the classic battles
of the 1915 baseball year, they Will be
led By Irishmen; by TWO OF the
earnest brainiest men that ever
handled the steering wheel of base
ball machine. Both are wonderful
leaders. yet in the final analysis, Pat
Moran OF the Phillies, must be con
ceded an edge" over Bill Carrigan
OF the Red Sox.
Moran, throughout the year, has
made but few tactical blunders. He
seems to possess the uncanny ability
10 do the right thing at the right time.
A dozen times during the year he let
his pitchers remain in the box when
it seemed that the opposition would
belt him ali over the lot on other
occasions he has derricked twirlers
when it seemed fOOlhardy TO do It..
Yet IN practically every instance his
judgment resulted in victory.
Moran played lunches.
Moran has put in pinch hitters
when il seemed foolish TO the fans
and he has permitted supposedly weak
nlIleIS 10 20 10 DotL III Itb ttletI III Al III
critical moments. It looked like base
ball suicide. Yet Moran. playing his
lunches, has won. No manager in
modern baseball has handled a team
with such delicate wonderful judg-
ment as Moran has handled the Phil
lies. AnG the Phillies have won.
Carrigan, on the other hand, has
not had as much to contend with. His
team is a team of sluggers; his pitch
cf IL n ST. a
rarely called upon to face a real crisis
because when the Sox actually got I'M
der way there wasn't much left to
do but to speculate on how many runs
they would win by. In occasional
pinches. CarTigan has shown except
iOnal judgment-but he has not been
tested as often as Moran.
But a world series battle is one in
W. .ch crises ere frequent. 1t is one
in which a call Is made on all the
strategical powers of the leaders in
VOlved, and because Moran has been
tested day after day throughout the
year, and because he has stood prac-
tipally every test. it seems TO US that
in managerial SKILL if in nothing else
the Phillies have a slight bulge on
their American league rivals.
MOrans mplshments-that Of
plotting a misht collection of ball
players to the championship of the
National league-stands out as the
most wonderful in the history of the
game. Carrigans feat-that of win
ming the American league pennant
with the classiest team in existence
is deserving of praise, yet in no way
IS il as remarkable as that of Moran's.
Accomplished Impossible.
Moran has secured 100 percent eff
ficiency from men considered incap-
able of more than 90 percent; he
manipulated a Joke" outfit Of ball
PLAYERS in such a way that it won a
pe3nant despite the fiercest kind OF
OPP OsitiOn. He accomplished what
seemed to be the impossible in the
springtime OF the year.
Placed in a position similar to Mo-
rams. Carugan might have won a
pennant, tOO.-he might not. But il
isn't what Carrigan might have done
its what Moran did.
Moran instilled the fighting never
say-die' spirit in his men. He petted
and humored them and kidded them
into believing that they were the best
ball players in the National league.
In short, he almost hypnotized them
and while. under that spell they play
ed better baseball day after day and
month after month than any team in
the Tener circuit.
And the spell has not been broken.
Moran, having kidded his men into
winning "a pennant. now has got them
10 believing that il Will be just as easy
for them TO win the series He has
reused HIS men 10 the highest pitch OF
enthusiasm; filed them full Of pep
ana confidence. and will send them
into battle with the Red Sox aggrega-
tiOn without fear and without trem-
bling. despite their inferiority in real
class to the Red SOX
And the Phillies barring accidents
viii have beautiful chance TO win
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