Evening star., 1923-01-16
BY JOHN J. McGRAW.

Sented to let me stay on the Dencn.
! finished the season as general utility
man. | played every position except
| pitcher. catcher and first base. If
| remember correctly, / played in sew
| enty-two games and did pretty well.
Experience was building me into
real big league ball player. Hanlon
was watching me closely.
HanIon Pulls Big Deals.
During the winter following that
season. Hanlon. having felt his way
began the construction OF what was
| to be one of the most famous base
| ball clubs of ali time-what is know n
now as the old Baltimore orioles, the
team that did things. In way TINS
team really revolutionized base ball.
brought out it's possibilities in ways
never before thought of.
Hanlon began making trades-pl8
trades So uniformly successful was
he in these deals that he got the
name of "F'CXy Ned" To begin Win
he swapped Third Baseman Tim
ORourke to Louisville 1or haThs - ~
TAYLOR and Hugh Jennings. 1ht
former played out the season ami re-
tired to take up the study of Jaw.
Harry Taylor is now justice of the
supreme court of New YORK ana IL
located at Buffalo. If he is as good
and hitter they won't get away with
many inside legal plays on him.
Got Chummy with Jennings.
Hugh Jennings and I became pals
Immediately. We have ppeh ever
since. He is now my first lieutenant
in the management of the Giants.
Jennings was red-headed, freckle-
faced kid and fresh, like myself we
took to each other the hrSt time We
met, both of us having the same
ambitions and aspirations. We Were
close association and chance to ex-
change ideas was of great benent 10
both of us. Hughey and L nave oeeh
pals all our baseball lives. We pc
management of the Detroit Tlgers'
but the moment he retired from tnal
nosition | offered him his present JOB
so that we could continue 10 De ~
rether. His friendship and loyalty
have been an inspiration to me. ANA
7 want to say right here that his help
in handling the Giants has been III >,
valuable To those who watched
closely that help could be seen in the
last two world series.
Eventually | was placed AT rt tnir1
base regularly and Jennings at short
I played that position the rest or my
days as an active player.
Toiled to Correct Faults.
In our room at night Jennings and
our positions. Often we have gone
out early in the morning to practice
on a certain kind of grounder that
had been missed the day before. /
have had Jennings hit as many as
sixty at me until l overcame what we
had considered q fault. In turn, l
would hit to him. This, mind you,
was in addition to the regular prac-
tice. We tried much harder to per-
feet ourselves in our profession than
ball players do nowadays.
Among other faults we decided tnat
we had overlooked our chances to get
an education Base ball had taken
us out of school. ] decided to take
course in st. Bonaventure college
Allegheny. Pa, and had no difficulty
in persuading Jennings to go WIN
me. We were not financially able 70
pay for an education, but we agreed
to exchange our knowledge OF oase
ball for our college education. The
college authorities agreed to this and
our tuition cost nothing more than
helping to train the school team.
Attended College Four Years.
We kept this up for four years. At
the end of each ball season we would
pack up our things and go to 81
Bonaventure That is how both of us
got what education we nave. tnough
Hughey later went to Cornell and
took a course in law. Those college
days, by the way, were the pleasant
est of our lives.
1t was then that my youthful mind
began to appreciate what 1t is to have
an education, or, rather. to have a
trained mind. ! was determined 10
be in position to appreciate the prin-
ciples of progress in any profession
After learning the difference / nave
ever since made an effort to get col
lege players whenever could.
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