San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
Doesn't Mean Team Will
Win Pennant, Just in
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MANAGERS METHODS
Foster Describes the Pc
& culiar Ways Of Sew
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Ry JOHN b. FOSTER.


10 say that Cleveland will win thu
- championship. 1t is simply matter
. Z. of affirmation regarding the condi-
ton OF the players and the manner
in which they played their preseason
games.
The second best looking team was
: Cincinnati. 1t was not so forward
: in training when it left Florida as
some other teams but it was substan-
: tial. solid. batting well and equipped
: with pitchers. Not a doubt on the
: latter score. 1t was really the best
: representative of the National League
in the South on the pitching ques-
80 ton. -
- The youngest crowd with the most
powerful punch was Washington. The
Senators are shy of pitchers but they
- are going to see better things when
Gibson gets through with those left
handlers. If there is anything in
Zachary, Mogridge and Brillheart he
will bring it TO the surface. Brill
: heart has heart. He can pitch HIM;
self out of bad situations. He will
- 60 better all the time. He has the
= right kind of man to instill conf
y dence in him.
Cards Lineup Not Fixed.
The st. Louis National League
team Jared well in Florida as re-
cards condition. The players have
- been further South than any team in
Florida. They have come through
WELL, They are experimental because
they are not playing with a fixed
,SIineup. Hickey did not have one last
year. Again he has tried TO build
l,,N lie -
49, predetermined. He is relying ire
~ nlendously upon his Older pitchers. III
they fail him st. Louis will not be
- the pace maker in. the National
-. League in 1928.
- The easiest going team was Brook
: lyn. 1t is full up with old players
and the manager is working them on
- the idea that they must conserve
.x,s their strength and get rid of sore
'-- arms. He figured he didn't want toI
get into Brooklyn with n team base
=, ball sick and travel fired. II he gets
them too fine that is exactly what
will happen, because the exhibition
!. season of the Brooklyns is proving a
worldwide pilgrimage against which
old players rebel and which does tire
- them.
Haven't Any Reserves.
- The team with the least reserve
y strength and which will be working
s. closest to its fighting margin is the
- Philadelphia Nationals which trained
at Leesburg. Arthur Fletcher han
> died the players admirably with mo-
= high-class surplus to help him. The
= regular team has its good points, If
it can come through with good bat
ting, but the reserves of the Phillies
: are not heavy enough. The players
follou E'latchar l0vallr
= The problematical team that was
I in Florida is Boston. The problem
is whether the Braves can get out
{. of last place. They have shown a
= batting punch and that is the best
thing they have shown. They are
still trying to develop a new infield
but It doesn't look like a fast de-
fensiye infield that can work its way
toward championship bonors.
~ The most progressive and dashing
managers are Cobb and Speaker.
= They are not only the managers but
y also the hearts Of their teams. Cobb
: is one Of the furtherest advanced
- managers in new ideas in a decade
Il Speaker is the center of the Cleve-
~ land universe and you never would
" know it on account of his own modes.
= ty and absolute lack of personal ego,
unless you CHANGED to take few min
utes to study the man and his play
= ers. The Cleveland team is magnifi-
. Gently handled in every way by mana
q ger, secretary and all connected with
= the club. So. too, is Detroit. Model
! teams, both of them.
Moran, Of Cincinnati, Robinson of
= Brooklyn, and Mitchell of Boston are
= instructing managers. All three are
s experienced and veteran players. A
. word here and another there was the
n most that you heard from them. yet
= every word was useful word. They
waste nothing. They do not employ
exactly the same methods as playing
: managers but they work in close
= touch with their players. Moran
{ thinks that he has o team which can
win from New York. He won't tell
: YOU so often, but you can't deprive
him Of the pleasure of thinking so,
: and he thinks so. too.
= All Different Jobs.
Robinson had and still has many
queer elements with which to deal,
. as well as some players who have
been in the game for long time and
are "opinionated"
Mitchell has an old job for him on
hand-putting young and old togeth-
CT. Perhaps there is no manager
4 who has been asked TO do more of
nancial reserve TO assist him.
Hickey is a manager all of his own
: type. During the Florida stay he ran
kindergarten, academy and college
He took the rockies and made them
: think they were in a ball game when
they practiced, although if the truth
must be told be had rockies at Bra
dentown who wouldn't know whether
they were to think they were in o
Z ball game or QUOT pitching match
He studied every player down 10 the
throwing measurement of his men
He watched their hands, their grips
their motions and their stride. The
only thing he didn't do was 10 put
il down on chart. If he had h'
would have today a complete physical
: diagnosis Of everything on the team
Bush is wide awake on the lines
He makes his plays fast and quickl!
when he changes his men. He will b,
scheming manager when it come
b. the scoring Of runs. How he vii
: make out with the handling Of hi
players is to be determined. That j.
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