The mirror., 1916-11-16

that he can take the most tempera-
mental and erratic pitchers and get
fine results where Others fail. Ben.
ION, Perritt and Sallee have pitched
fine ball for Manager McGraw.
but they were not successful with
other teams.
Manager Stallings, Of the Bos-
ton Braves, puts tremendous
amount of energy into the hand
ling of his team. He is hot only
aggressive but resourceful and b.
t was who conceived and put into
practice the outfield shift, which
requires two sets of Oulfielders.
one set batting lefl-handed and the
"ther batting right handed, to b-
used as the opposition's choice oi
Iwirlers made necessary. This
was one item in the methods u
play which led to run of brilliant
victories, bringing the Braves
from a bad last to a good first, and
The title of Miracle Man" to Mr..
Stalings in 1914. During a game
Mr.. Stallings is full of nervous
energy and slides from one end t..
the other of the players bench
many times. His language and
tones are vigorously sarcastic and
used alike on both friend and foe.
In game at St. Louis in 1914.
when the Braves were fast over
hauling the leading Giants. it Sc,
happened about the fifth inning
that catcher Henry Gowdy was al
bat and bad count of three balls
and two strikes. Over on the
Boston bench sat Stallings, rathe,
gloomy, but he said to the Other
players: II Hank gets on, we'll
let Old Bonehead 60 to bat." The
full significance of this remark
will be seen when no less than
seven Boston players grabbed
their bats ready to rush to the
plate. He apparently applied this
pet name to each OF the players
with frequency. However. it must
Oe said they did not seem to resent
t and there was good feeling be
tween the manager and players
throug ghout the season. Manager
StaIlings put up a good fight in
1915. finishing a fair second. With
an inferior team this year he fill
i>hed third, and at one period in
the early part of September hi>
tam lead the league. The scrappy.
hustIing player is in favor with
Mr.. Stalllngs, to-wit: Johnny Ev-
ers, Maranville, Red Smith and
Sherry Magee. What kept the
Braves from a higher place this
wear was the continued absence OF
Evers and unreliable pitching. Al
one period the Boston catchers
were all disabled and the club had
to borrow Blackburn from the In.
ternational League; but the Braves
put up brave fight and waded in.
10 the luckless Phlllies the las,
week of the season for four victor
les out of six games.
While on the subject of man.
ayers, a real tribute is due Man
ayer Carrigan, of the Red Sox, for
the gallant manner in which he
kept the baseball trophies and hon.
ors in Boston for at least another
year. It is this quality of carry
ing the fight to the enemy which
wins the battle. When the Red
Snx left Boston on their last trip
IF the year, they were fighting
desperately to keep in the lead.
and, while in the west. lost it for
one day. But when, after admin
istering two stinYing defeats to the
White Sox at Chicago, they jour
neyed to Detroit for the hardest
series of the season, Manager Car
rigan had them on edge and fit te,
do battle. There Wis no wobbling
in their attack and they took three
straight games-somethine exceed
inYly difficult to do in the home
town Of the Tiuers. After that i,