The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
First City to Open "Pro" Ball Sure of 1919
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Barring a collection of serious mis- haps to the players, Cincinnati has the National League pennant of 1919 lashed to the flag pole. The space of time to the seasons end tho Reds wide margin are handicaps which the Giants cannot hope to overcome It is the first time that Cincinnati will have had the pennant since the orga- nization of the National League. The Reds triumph will be a good thing for tho game, for 1t takes the cham pionship out of the larger baseball centres and brings 1t into a new ter ritory New York, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia have monopolized the pennant business too long for the games good,
 Cincinnati was the first city in the country to have a professional base ball team, In 1869 the famous Red Stockings were organized and they played everywhere in the country and didn't lose a game, In its long ca reer in the National League the Gin cinnau club has had u long and inn presslve array of managers, including Cy Neck, J. W. Neff, O. P. Caylor. Tom Loftus, Charley Comiskey. Will Ham Ewing, Robert Allen, Bid Me Phee, Joe Kelly, Ed Hanlon. John Ganxel, Clarke Griffith, Hank O'Day, Joe Tinker, Buck Herzog, Christy Mathewson and finally Pat Moran.
 All the credit for this years sue cess goes to Moran. During the past year there was a big change in the company controlling the Cincinnati club, and August Hermann, who has guled there for many years, was not permitted to rule with as free a hand as he had in the past. The officials of the ball club this year kept their hands off the managerial end of the game, and for the first time in the history of the game in Redland a manager was the real boss of the ball club.
 Moran has not been interfered with in any way. He was permitted to choose his players and run the club us he saw fit. With a free rein the ex- perienced and astute Moran mapped out his own campaign and had smooth sailing. First, he established harmony in a club which has in the past been honeylcombed with cliques. There were no trouble-makers under Moran and his players gave him the best baseball they could play.
 An old catcher himself, Moran gave attention to his pitching staff. He has accomplished wonders with his starr of fingers and has worked them so successfully that there have been no sore arms or cases of OverwOrked boxmen. Moran made his players be- lieve in themselves, he gave them confidence and made it known to them when the season started that their jCb was to win the pennant. When Moran took charge of the team there was ono disappointed ball play CT. He was Heinie Groh, the third baseman, who believed that he was going to be the manager. Moran told the world far and wide. before the season was two weeks old, that in Heinie Groh he had the greatest third baseman in the game and there has not been a player in Moran's outfit who has played such a great game this season as Groh. Moran knows how to handle men and his baseball machine has worked with oily smooth ness through the season.
 The Cincinnati players are now so keyed up to the thrill of the pennant fight that they refuse to be defeated. They are like the Boston Braves of 1914. The word defeat is not in their lexicon. They are being carried along on their own momentum and nothing less than a cataclysm can stop them.