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Show Here's the Man Who Brought the Pennant to Philadelphia Nationals, First in 33 Years PAT MOEAN. heights to the league championship, is plain history to the fan army. Little has been told, however, of the career of the 1915 miracle man. Like Jimmv Callahan, former manager man-ager of the White Sox, Moran was a native of Fitchburg, Mass. Callahan's parents wanted him to hire out as a plumber's apprentice. Moran 's dad got him a "lucrative" job as a textile toiler. Pat finally went to work for the Beoli mil of the American Woolen company at West Pitehburg, but the . confinement of manual labor did not 1 kill his love for the national pastime. Every spare moment found the red-' red-' faced Irish boy with a baseball in his hands. One of the oldest inhabitants of Fitchburg delights in spinning a talc P which features Pat as the maker of yarn baseballs, which were wrapped ' with twine in order that Pat could ; practice. Then he developed, and afTer j burning up the town lots of New Eng-1 Eng-1 land accepted a berth, with Newport, i R. T., as catcher for Patsy Foley. Tn 1805 he signed out with the Central 1 Parks of Orange, Mass. He caught 9 seventy-six games for the Lvons club " of the' New "York State league in 1897 f and ninety-three games in 1S98. Cubs in 1905. The following year Pat went to Mon- treal of the Eastern league and bis " experience there ripened him to such a ? degree that the Boston Nationals purchased pur-chased him in 1900. After five years with the Bostonese Pat was trans-i trans-i ferred to the Cubs, where he remained 1j until 1910, when he was released to f Philadelphia as second string catcher, ', acting aa relief for Rod Dooin, then manager. In addition to his ability as a base- e ball player, Pat also is rated some pumpkins as a basket-ball and hand- )Sall performer. Time was when he was also a whale of a soccer football player. Chicago 13 his winter abiding s pla-e. It was there he married, and next I to Philadelphia and Fitchburg he know? of no spot he would rather cali 0 home than the Windv City, s j ' Veteran, With Championship Champion-ship Cinched, Same Modest Mod-est Chap of Cub Days. EVERY season has its miracle man. Jones, Chance, Jcnuings and Clarke', Mack and McGraw, Stahl, Carrigan and S tailings each a different type of diamond strategist strate-gist has worn the title by right of conquest. Each has proved himself to be a worker of miracles while marshalling mar-shalling his forces in championship campaigns. cam-paigns. It's an old story to a few of ihese grizzled pilots, but a new and mighty novel one for Patrick J. Moran, the miracle man of 1915. Starting his steam roller Phillies on a nerve-racking spurt July 13 when the Cubs were pried from first place, Moran, Mo-ran, never using the whip, successfully piloted them down the line. Says "Can" Moniker. '"If you're a friend of mine, don't call me the miracle man,'' said Patrick Pat-rick J. in his best vein of Fitchburg Irish. Modesty always was a viri ue with Patrick and his unassuming ways, when a member of the Cubs' old guard, won him frieuds in legiou. He really is sincere in asking that the title orig-inallv orig-inallv hung on Stallings be relegated to the cannery. However, he is a miracle mir-acle man for all that, as a slant at the records will prove. The Wrights, Irwina, Shettalines, Stalling?, Zimmers, Duffys, the Mur-ravs Mur-ravs and the Dooins acting in managerial man-agerial capacities for Philadelphia's National league teams since 1883 never delivered as did this smiling, red-faced Irishman, who only a few years ago was second string catcher on Chance's epoch-making Cubs. Wright, Shettsline and Dooin spurred the Phils of various years into second place, but it remained re-mained for Moran to assemble the first place, A Xo. 1 champs, hitherto un-I un-I viiown at Broad and Huntingdon j Greets, in the (Quaker metropolis. How Pat Got Start. How Alexander the Great, ''Cactus'' Cravat h, Demon Pave Bancroft and .ill the other topliners fighting under (Patri.-k's standard helped repulse all I comers and eventually storm the |