New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
Only One Shift
In Managers
OF Old League
Hendricks, New Leader of
Cards. Sole Newcomer in
the Tener Circuit
By w. !. Macbeth

company. is being held responsible for
the fact in the minds Of the club own
ers at large. There has been only one
managerial switch, in the Tener cir
cult. among the eight leaders that
brought their teams through the final
drive OF the last campaign, and that
through spirit of generosity, not ne
ocssity.
Jack Hendricks, highly successful in
the minors, has succeedci to the most
successful administration of Miller
Higgins with the St. Louis Cardinals.
ST. Louis relinquished it's claim to Hug
gins only that he might benefit himself
as a prospective Moses to lead the YAM
KEGS Of Colonel Jacob Rupert and Cap
tain T. L. Huston out of the Wilderness.
McI,raw is, has been and doubtless
will continue to be the Little Napoleon
OF the parent major association. He
has that uncanny skill, possessed by the
Corsican. of turning even reverse into
advantage. Several times in his illus
trious and adventurous career as En-
peror Of the Polo Grounds McGraw has
stood practically the sole survivor of
stricken field. 1t was so on his intro
duction, when he first came from Balti-
more, back in 1902, to assume charge OF
what appeared hopeless wreck.
McGraw Cleans House
McGraw took one look at the debris
and decided to clean house. Excess
baggage to the extent of some dozen
alleged players were handed the blue
envelope in a twnkling. and one of
these, by strange twist of fate. is now
person OF Jack Hendricks, new boss of
tn Cards.
No manager of baseball has been
moro successful than John Joseph Nc
Graw. Success is measured from two
viewpoints-thato of the fan and that of
the club owner. The fan has only one
gauge, the pcnnant emblcmatic of first
position in the race. McGraw has
squared both viewpoints. He has pyra-
mided a tremendous fortune fer the
stockholders of the National Exhibition
His pennants, of course, have helped
toward this end. His career is rich in
pcnnants. His clubs have won cham
pionships for McGraw in 1904, 1905,
1911, 1912, 1918 and 1917.
Herein McGraw, then, is the great
menace that confronts the seven other
team leaders of the National League as
the wheel OF time spins another
championship season into view. Mac
seasons, and stands to-day as vigorous
as in the first flush Of pennant tr-
umph. His team is the class OF its
company.
The real dean of National League
managers is John J. McGraw. George
r. Stallings, who stands second in
point Of service, did not join the
Braves till 1913. OF course, it must
be remembered that tho Big Chief has
been knocking around in the manager
ial end OF the game quite as long as the
Little Corporal, though he has not worn
so consistently in the big show.
Stallings was manager of the Phil
lies az far back as 1897. He was man
sger OF the Detroit Tigers in 1900 and
1901. He returned to the American
League after q successful career in
Buffalo and Newark, Of the Interna-
tional Chen Eastern) League as leader
ot Frank J. Farrell's Yankees in 1903.
Within two years Stal.ings built up
hopeless taiiender into pennant con-
tender, but long standing feud with
Ban Johnson forced his sacrifice before
the close of the 1910 campaign. The
team has been only the Yankees ever
since.
stallings's reantry into the National
League in 1913 was crowned almost
Immediately with fabulous success; his
tirst two years sped with the rapidity
and splendor of an escaped Monte
Cristo. They earned for him the So
briquet Of Miracle Nan, even over the
perennial worker OF miracles, j. Nc
Graw.
GU -
,-lomeration Of baseball usefulness
whose spirit had been broken through
fifteen years and more of failure. He
showed results the first year, finishing
high as fifth position. 1t was re-
served for 1914 to show one of the real
miracles of the national pastime's his
tory.
Swinging into July that season Stall
!ngss team trailed the field some seven
teen games behind the Giants, who
were so far ahead of the nearest COM
petitor that the general public con-
coded fourth consecutive pennant to
McGraw. Then began such drive as
had never been seen. This consisted Of
no such concerted and sustained rush
as New Works twenty-siX straight in
1916. But, supported by the phenome-
nal pitching of Bill James, Dick Ru.
dolph and George Tyler. the scrappy
Braves found themselves at last. For
every game they dropped they won four
or FIVE.
Pass Rivals One by One
One by one they passed their various
rivals until the Saturday before Labor
Day they stood tied with the naughty
Giants for first position. Sheer pluck
VI and aggressIveness, that had carried
"A them SO far, could not be denied 1t
carried them, too to four straight VIC
tories over the supposedly invincible
Athletics IL the world series that year,
the greatest upset Of the classic since
the hltless wonder White Sox toppled
the chesty Cubs in 1906
Well for George T. Stallings that he
elinched his nom de guerre" in 1914
for the following season was to sec
the budding of another managerial
genius-one who still ranks among the
great masters of the gamc~in Pat
Moran. The veteran catcher and coach
who succeeded Red Doom as leader OF
the Phillies. found Il club of only aver
age talent, which had been split asun-
der by dlscord and dssension Fur.
thermore, he was confronted by the
problem of rebuilding his fences with
out the spiritual aid of an exchequer
Wilbert Robinson, the rotund anc
genial manager of the Brooklyn Ma.
tional League club, antedatcs Moran as
II team leader by one scant year. vii.
bert broke into the big show as dl-
rector in chief in 1914. He had hao