Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-12
TENDENCY TO PLAY VETS
Weakness OF MANAGERS
Pilots Of Clubs in Chase for Pcnnan,
Loath to Give Youngsters
Chance in Game.
HANG ON TO oLD.TIMERs
Brilliant Work OF Frisch in Giant In
field Has Proved That Young
Blood VIII Infusc New Life Into
Il Play OF Hardened Performers.
ny JAMES j. CORHI:I'T.

...:sss-Ssss.sNEW YORK. SEPT. iI.-Thc wcar-
rs :1s 5, OF ,o mos, major league managS:s
s,:the ,nilets of clubs that arc IN the
S.ably. put in he S'd;ime-s .rIev -~.m
ft'art,ii OF 'rr,r- out. the 81 i':,"n ',rs
- :, - dreams II iaiS National League pen
> SEssisant have pot come true. asset thit
Johr McGraw had pu; youn4. blood
nto the lineup things might have been
!. ~, ~. .,t:xnsrience has Shown ina, veter,
eSt6ey CLAIM. 'Mctiraw tried 10 wn
with perhaps the oldest club that ever
sSaherished nag ambitions. His regular
his o1tfeld aCa" 20 thirty The tea M
Fs a wilol5 TaE ono that averages
AT toe sae sd &c 55nna one '" chase
splendidiy until carly August. And
then the pace which i; was forced TO
Rsss s Began 10 ,ei IN The Of ms
@CSpldn't maintain It and the team
So F>ri-ch Took Doyle. Place.
so a e. xssss go MG E: ;S Rgt
taking poZls,s place at second The
sses E. H sss noan; "9 asead T.
that be is. OF major league caiiore.
The plsy:ns Of he whITlw!nd young.
sse ssId l. has spSsdsd up s'y ehas on
FLETCHER and Zimmerman, and the OH
1 ,sarS are s2gF,;iaE Gss7 Egr'heTf
Fe;sch. his pep" snd MS enthusiasm
has caused The whole team 70 take
nev. spirit and 10 Try 20 follow his
IL Mciraw had only put a few kids
dfferen, Story probsbly could be tod ID
ccSoncsrnins the 1919 nag fight" is
But McGraw isn't alone in his prs
ference for old players. It's almost a
universal fault in the National. the
rarely play youngsters unless i, is an
absolute. necessity.
They hang onto the oldt:mers until
home. And all the while the KIDS
who undoubtedlr could play game
or are sent back TO the minors for
more seasoning"
TO repeat in pennant fights is because
Managers "re loathe to break up the
The 1914 Braves packed many vet
Grams whose places could have been
sS m9Te "fs nt tsorrs in sI by
didn't want 10 scatter UP an aggrega-
ton that had won in 1918. He Thought
travel to remnant heights in 1915. But
Pat Moran, who fayors old players.
won flag for the Phillies in 1915 with
many fading stars on his team. Pat had
chance TO put new blood" into the
lineup in 1916, but he stood pat on
the aged OUTFIT The result was that
the team OF old men. even though they
had won the year before. couldn't stand
the 1916 strain. The fight OF 1873 had
taken the steam" out OF them.
Wilbert Robinson won in 1916 with
such veterans MarQuard. Meyers.
Wheat. Myers Dauhert. Stcngel and OIL
son. But they couldn; come back In
1917. The Giants won that year and
McGraw, starting out on the 1918 cam
paign, used almost the same team that
had won the year before.
The few changes that had been made
were not youth for age: II WAS one old
timer for another. And the Cubs
whipped tho Giants. The Cubs stood
pat in 1919. placing almost the same
veteran club in the field that had
tgiumphed in 1915 and the Cubs fell by
the 1913 waysidc.
Experience. It's said. is wise
teacher Rut II seems 10 teach slowly
in'the National League. Not since 1913
has any club repeated in pennant
fight. Each winner usually has stood
pat on the old linc-up.i. II any changes
were made il was .watersFs for veteran
not youth for faded stars. And no club
has come back" Copyright, 1919.