Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-19
PAT MORAN's LEADERSHIP
KEEPING REDS UP FRONT
Work as Pilot OF Big League
Clubs.
TRANSFORMED GIN Natl
Go. Team Classed as Sccond-Rater
OFF to Flying Start, and Ii Has
Played Remarkable Ball Through
out Season.
RY JAMES J. CoRBETr.


NEW YORK. July Isis Pat Moran
biz league pilot?
baseball! world in 1915 by leading the
no Good PhillicS' to championship
heights has set Cincinnati ahame with
peunant enthusiasm by his remarkable
work as chieftain OF the Reds:
The season is half over and the Reds
are lighting 1t out for the flag. hat
OF any Cincinnati; team in National
League history, playing moro spec
tacular. Yet consistent, brand of base
bal! ;han any club in the world.
And to Pat Moran. the real miracle
man" must go the glory.
There IS something about this ruddy
faced. canny and lovabie son OF Erin
mates dsh; to ,heir absolute limi, and
beyond There's nothing Of the fiery
style OF leadership in Moran, yet every
Club thai lie ever bossed has been !,
hip-hip- hooray, al!-together and up-
and at EN- boys aggregation: a crew
that never admits defeat until the last
man is out ana then. PROMPTLY forsets
its grief and LAYS plans for the win
Ming o: tomorrow's battle.
Develops Poor Clubs.
The remarkable thing about Moran
is that he takes clubs that were moth
ine but chronic tai!sndcrs' or so-calied
see9 ,, at pest; , ana almost eyer,
racers.
Charlie Doom spent years trying to
land the Phillies some where beyond the
: Doom was a. mighty smart baseball
man. When he passed on and Moran
took charge OF the Philies AZ the out
set OF the 1915 season. fandom eX-
Poor Pat. he's drawn luscious
lemon in his first managerial assign
meut.'
Doom couldn't do . thing with and
without q radical change in the whole
lineup. amazed the baseball multi
tudes by winning the 1913 pennant
How did Moran do it?" was asked
OF one OF the phillie players.
Hes Il Regular Fellow.
He's human. regular fellow. a
never-say -d!c lrishman. and one Of
the greatest stratcgis;s In the game"
was ;hc answer. Moran can get lOl
that works for him because lie knows
human nature, KNOWS how 10 handle
his men: makes them. by his kindness
and his fairness. love him, not fear
b. wards the boys hcarkcn 20 his adj
vice. bow 20 his Judgment and go out
and win ball games"
Philadelphia went INTO mourning last
winter when William T. Baker, owner
OF the phUllas. released Moran with
out seeming cause. y howl went w
from the Quaker City tina; echoed in
Egypt. Moran was Jobless but no,
for long John NIctiraw grabbed him
a. assistant coach for the Giants. Hu;
hardly had Moran signed New York
contract before the chance came 10 Fat
70 manage the long m!s:IaNaced Reds
And NcGraw let Moran go. kindly
act that John probably regrets IL,
tie now for II IS this same Pat that
menaces the Giant dash toward pen
naat heights.
Got Flying start.
team with which HerzoS and Chr!sty
MathewsoN had failed so niseyaOiy
Moran sen, the Reds along 20 flying
start and they've never hesitated IN
their mad dash. The team is playing
A2SSball heyy99nd Itself just Ike The 4,
week after week. the Rh!ncland crew
Is performing In glorious fashion and
striking terror 20 the hearts of al
other clubs that had nurscd pennan;
hopes
'"rhe Reds Of 1919, like all other Red
Slories: They'll crack around June L.
was the prediction. But instead o.
cracking. those Reds merely frightened
their belts a little more around June
and ever since then have displayed
Workmanship far beyond the splendid
form of early spring.
I'm ! n9,@.inak Ii,t% any p%nna"t claims
tina; these ho,.S OF mine are a Arh,-
ing crew ana fighters don't quiz The
whole team Is travelling along /!
E-ea, shape. Thu pitchers are WORKING
sp!cndid!y, ~" fielding is near perfect
and tn" h!t;ers are hitting when hit
win ball games. Ana the Boys are ful
OF real confidence which is half tn,
battle. "-Copygirh 1919