The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-18
Giant Club Il Not q Good Team
But Aggressiveness Makes
Them Winners
JOHN KNOWS GAME
Benton and Fitzsimm0ns,
Mostly Benton, Is All They
Have In Pitchers
By HENRY L. FARRELL

1lghtln& Tor the N4Llon9l League
flag. They may not out-game or
out-win the we'll balanced St. Louis
Cardinals, but they certainly have
q great chance.
And why? y.
It is hot . fancy looking ball club
that has come almost from nowhere
to challenge the much more formid-
able st. Louis favorites. It is not
q great ball club.
Il is not . great ball club because
it has no regular outfield; it has .
spotty infield; it has only two win
ming pitchers on the staff; it has
catchers who are good batters and
the team is around third and fourth
in hitting and fielding.
It is probable that even the base
ball writer's who cover the team can
not name the outfield without hest
tation but any three chosen from
Roush, Welsh, O'Doul, OFT, Reese or
Mann do not form . combination
that threatens the prestige Of any
celebrated all.star combinations.
Two Great Players
The infield defense is built around
two great ball players, 1indstrom ct
third base and Jackson at short.
Pittsburgh will argue that Lind.
strom 10 no better than Pie Traynor
and Brooklyn will dispute that Jack.
son is . better shortstop than Ban.
croft but that does not alter the fact
that Lindstrom and Jackson are very
good ball players.
Terry is no Bottomley at first
base but he's q very fine workman.
Cohen 10 no Hornsby nor Critz but
he has done well In Z tough spot and
he hasn't hopelessly handicapped the
men who work beside him.
The pitching staff is Benton and
Fitxsimmohs-mostly Benton, for
the twenty-five games or more that
he may win.
Where is the "why" then that OBJ
viously il behind the Giants
Il is in the stout size flannels Of
John J. McCraw.
McGraw's teams, with exceptions
50 inffequent that they do not cling
in memory, always are in the pen
nant races, And it 10 hard tc recall
off-hand just how many or how few
Of those pennant battling clubs were
great ball clubs.
It is the McGraw spirit that is
beaten into ordinary ball players
Wilbert Robinson soft-soaped and
kidded Z couple Of punk ball clubs
into the conviction that they wcrc
good. But McCraw drives and
pounds it into his men.
run and Hustle"
"You get out there and hustle,
he commands them and they get out
there and hustle-or else.
II McCraw needed more proof
that had already Seen entered in his
brilliant record to convince skertics
Of his genius, he found himself in
situation this year to show beyond
doubt that the founder OF the Nc.
Graw system and the system Itself
is and has been the success ct The
New York club.
.McCraw started without . bal
club last April. Rogers Hornsby
was traded away from him and III
had built his team around Hornsby
he was NOT only q 0IIllISuC PIeyel
but . brilliant leader to be used in a
emergency. Burly Grimes wal
traded away without his consent ant
he lost q pitcher who surely wouls
have won thirty ball games for tn
Giants.
But. there was too much fight il
McGraw to squswk. He took I
without . whimper.
He gathered around him Z motle!
outfied, . disorganized jnfield an
. rather pathetic group Of pitcher
and commanded: y
"Get out there and hustle"
And it is the McGraw hustle in q
ordinary ball club that has sent tn
bosses Of the Cards on : desperat
hunting expedition into their farm
for reinforcetAents.
You can bet that the Giants won
be out-gamed in . fight that Nigh
70 to the last game for : decision
McGraw's teams won't quit and the
never stop hustlinG.