Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

primitive to- go in big league base
ball. The major league manages may
sbe right, but Mccarthy might re
taliate on some of them by saying
that he is not discovering a great
amount of major league base ball TO
contend against. Having ruled with
a mighty scepLer in the American As
ISOLATION for some time, he is not
abashed by his change of company, be
cause the only change is in region. not
base ball.
Mccarthy has taken the Cubs from
a tail-end position and never let them
see the bottom of the National
League since the season began. Not
once has this team, which seemed to
be made up Of an odd assortment of
nondescript ball players, splashy ball
players, uncertain ball players, odd
and end ball players, been where it
could peer into the cellar. Since July
II the Cubs have been in the first di-
vision and they are so near the top
that they might, if they had one of
those runs of victories which come to
clubs now and then, go ahead of
everybody.
Shows His Nerve.
That Mccarthy has been able to keep
the Cubs out Of last place is not so
much of a feat, as the fact that he
has kept them out with no more than
he has had on hand to do it with. To
top that off. he has not shown any
fear of results because he shipped
away two pitchers, each Of whom in
his time had been a bumper into
which more than one National League
team had banged with disastrous re-
suits.
Cooper went away because he was
not fitted for the National League
ground in Chicago and probably be-
cause he has been pitching so long
that the ieft-hand slowness of his
joints has slowed his slow ball so
that it is no longer deceiving.
Alexander left Chicago because all
the home club bosses got mad when
Alec forgot that all the world is not
primroses and 'blushing peoples dur
ing the base ball season.
The nearest thing that Mccarthy
has acquired TO add strength to his
team is the person Of one Stephen
son, a man with a mighty pair o.
shoulders, once with Cleveland, and
of whom Iris Speaker said in glow
ing admiration that no player he had
ever seen could hit a ball harder.
Stephenson is no mercury and he
has an arm that is not as plant
ais a yew bow. vet he has fitted the
Chicago frame for the moment be
cause he has put T. N 7. into the
batting order.
He Rules the ROost.
How has Joe Mccarthy done this.
which now earns him the respect of
other managers and incurs the jeal
ousy of some?
First, by discipline. He told the
| boys he was going to have it and
| he has had it. In the base ball sea-
son the Cubs belong to Mccarthy.
mentor. Second he made the Cubs
play ball. It is one thing to be
among those present on ball field
and another to be at the right place
when the queen comes in and every
body must tip his hat.
Mccarthy has McCarthyized Chi
cage. He didn't expect to win
pennant. He didn't expect to get
into the first division. but he did
expect to play ball and he courted
hope. She smiled. Now Mccarthy
smiles and the National. League has
settled back TO the fact that in the
future thereH be a Mccarthy at the
ball a-dancin' the Wrigley UP and
down the center of the hall And If
the Los Angeles Club and the Chi
cago Club by some dispensation of
fate should happen to win pennants
this year, the Isle of Catalina in the
Pacific Ocean will bust out laugh
ing and keep it UP all Winter.