Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-26
NC CHANCE IN SENDING OESCHGER IN f.
WHAT A MONUMENTAL TASK
CONFRONTS MATTY TO LIFT
REDS OUT OF WILDERNESS
Over Space of Forty Years Fifteen Other Man
ayers, Including Hanlon, Ewing and Comiskey,
Have Failed to Produce Winner
BY GRANTLANp RICE

| FTNHE monumental task that Matty faces
i In lifting the Reds out of the wilderness
into the promised land can be best under
stood from this list of Red managers from
1876 to 1915. Here It is:
Cy Keck, j. M. w Neff, o. P. caylor,
| Tom LOTUS, Charles Comiskey william
| (Bucl0 Ewing, Robert Allen, Bid McPhee,
Joe Kelly, Edward Hanlon, John CAMEL,
Clarke Griffith, Hank o'Day, Joseph Tin.
ker, Charley Herzog
There you have fifteen leaders in
forty years, without a pennant to flap
above the old tepee. Fifteen leaders includ-
Ing some OF the greatest minds in base
ball--Hanlon, Ewing, Comlskey, Griffith
and others of slightly less repute.
In the forty years the Reds have finished
below the 500 mark twenty-five seasons
and In the last twelve years they have fin
ished in the first division but twice.
Considerable Assignment
Evidently Matty faces what you might
we'll enough term a considerable assign
ment Job, task or undertaking.
1t can be done. Pat Moran proved that
by ending the Phllly drought after forty
barren years last October.
And it may be that Matty is the man to
achieve the miracle that will bring him In
as much renown in another field as he
ever won over sixteen years from his place
in the rifle pit.
Red Stars
The Reds have not suffered this big
deficit through absence of talent. In these
40 barren years they have had their full
share OF Itars-Bobby Mathews. Arlie
Latham, Bug Holiday, Tony Mulane Char
ley Radbourne, Bid McPhee, Tommy Cor
coran. Pete Browning, Frank Dwyer, Char
ley Comiskey. Tip oNeill, Jesse Tannehll,
Tacks PARROT, Silver Bill Phillips, Buck
Ewing. Red Ehret, Theodore Breitenstein,
Heinie Peitz, Jake Beckley, Norman Eber-
field, Sox Seybold, Sam Crawford. Mike
Donin, Noodles Hahn. Amos Rusie. William
Bergen, Harry Steinfeldt, Joe Kelley, Cy
Seymour, crval Overall, AL Bridwell. Dick
Hoblitzell, Harry CoveleslSie, Hans Lobert,
Joe Tinker. Charley Herzog-these and
many other names still remembered in ball
dom annals have worn Red hosiery and
battled for the old town from year TO year.
There Isn't another city in the land that
can boast OF greater names in the lineup.
Crawford went from Cincinnati to Detroit
and helped to give that city three pennants!
Donlin and Seymour helped the Giants to
a flag.
overall and steinfeldt were big factors in
four Chicago triumphs.
Ex-Reds have helped rivals to at least
eight pennants, but in 40 years Cincinnati
has been without her flag.
A City of Baseball Tradition
Redland is city strong in baseball
tradition But so many years of failure
there have soured the fanatic soul, and now
the Red fan has begun each season to look
for the worst. And when the break came
each fan figured the same old story was
about to be related, with the usual setting of
tragedy and crepe
/Mathewson should have II in him to mako
one of the best managers of the game, but
he Isn't going to plunge at once into any
triumph. He has slow. uphill fight ahead,
and good part of his chance depends upon
the patience of Cincinnati fans.
These fans owe 1t to their future TO
please give Matty chance-not a chance
for the rest of his season or next year. but