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Show HOW BRESNAHAN GETSTHE RUNS Cardinals' Spirited Leader Imbues Im-bues His Men With Confidence Con-fidence in Team. MORAL SUASION BETTER THAN CLUE PROFANITY McGraw's Boorish Methods Falling Fall-ing Into Disuse Among More Enlightened Managers, i BY MANHATTAN. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, July 22. Did you ever know such a baseball season? 1 never did and I have bocn following the game since tho days of town ball and rounders. round-ers. rlfs a great thing for the game. too. to jee the middle of the season with the first team of tho second division of the National league so close up with the league leaders that the result of three or four games might reverse their position. posi-tion. I While the American league race is not so intensely exciting as the National, there Is what would under ordinary circumstances cir-cumstances be a rattling race between the two leading clubs In the junior league with two or three others still in striking strik-ing distances. Undoubtedly the sensation of the sea- j son In baseball Is Roger Brcsnahan of the St. Louis Nationals. We have become be-come accustomed to look upon the Cardl-nnls Cardl-nnls as hopeless tallenders. When Bresnahan took the team three seasons ago there was a temporary" spurt, but the team from tho far west continued to fight It out with Brooklyn and Boston for cellar honors. So It began this year, when suddenly and without warning Bresnahan's men began to play the best and most consistent ball of nny team In the league, until now if they can keep the pace they have as good a chance as anvbodv to cop the- flag. What's the reason? Alwavs a brainy, resourceful athlete. Bresnahan has at last gotten the managerial man-agerial knack and has pulled his squad together for one set purpose and that purpose Is to set more runs than tho other side. When his pitchers start wobbling ho Is no longer hot on their trail. With him now It's: "All right, old dog. stick it across; vou 'can do it: shoot it here, you ve Hot :em beaten to death. . Como on now and push this one over." Bresnahan Badiates Ambition. Tho main factor in Bresnahan's success,, suc-cess,, however, centers around this one feature he has put ambition Into his bunch, has wiped out the old lethargy and has made them believe they are as good or better than nny other club in the league. Personality Is the createst factor In any managerial success. Quick thinking think-ing and knowledge of the game como next. Bresnahan has nil three. lie has the great faculty of getting the last ounce of work from his talent, of keeping keep-ing them eternally in the light and of plavlng tho game to the best of their ability at every angle of the fray. And his late shift of giving his own team encouragement and fighting the other fellows instead has been tho one knack which has put bis people in tho race . Graduating under J. McGraw. Bresnahan Bresna-han belongs to what is known as tho "old school," which comprises McGraw. Jennings and others of that typo. And the main Idea If the old school vas to go out there and . fluht and tight to win. A. W. Lambert, Jr., a member of the Western A. A. U. located In St. Louis and one of the flnrt polo vaultcrs in tho business, is in town on a short visit and Is anxious to get Into competition at some of the forthcoming sets of Karnes-.Lambert Karnes-.Lambert competed In the Pittsburg national na-tional championships, but through some misfortune he was unplaced for the llnaln. It would not be a bad Idea to match Harrv Babcock of tho New York A. C. and the westerner In a special af fair. ' The St. Louis pole vauller had hardly seen City Hall nark before rumors went afloat to tho effect that the N. Y. A. C. was trying to grab him up. He hns no intention of giving up his membership with the western club. Lambert is a clean-cut young chap and has all the earmarks of a coming champ In the nole vault line. He Is very affa- i hie and picks up friends wherever lie i goes. E J. V. Llndberg. the new national quarter-mile champion, who belongs to tho Chicago A. A., has been doing a. little work at Travers Island. Tho Chicago man's tlmo for the quarter at the national nation-al championships was :4U. beating out GIfih. the Seattle man. by a fair margin. Llndberg wns reported some time ago ns having made up hie mind to enroll himself wllh the New Yorks. but according accord-ing t" the energetic Paul Pilgrim that Idea has vanished from his mind. Several Sev-eral of the Seattle men also put In sumo hard licks on the Inland. Marathon Runner. Harrv Jensen, the amateur marathon king of the Pastime A. C, has decided to rest up after a hard season's campaign. cam-paign. Jensen will resume training the latter part of the Hummer and It Is known that he has his eye on that Olympic trip. He is the most consistent runner in the United States over tho full marathon distance. His record Is one to ho proud of. IIo won the Long Island marathon at Celtic park In 100U In 2:10. over the full course, all measured, meas-ured, which Is morn than can be said of all courses. He finished socond In the Boston marathon the same year and third In the Soa Onte marathon. Ho captured first in the Flatbush marathon last year and finished second to Jim Crowley In both the Flatbush and New Jersey marathons mara-thons In tho previous year. Then he came back after a rest and was only beaten by tvo minutes by Corkcry. the Canadian, in the Victoria dav marathon, held by tho Spectator of Hamilton on May 2-1 last. The heat has knocked discus throwor Jim Duncan out temporarily, but with a fortnlght'k reBt the husky Mobawkcr will come around O. K. Duncan's Job keeps him out in the .broiling sun and on his feet ton hours a dny, and nix days in the week, Ernie Mertberg writes lo a friend in this city that he has' a surprise or two In store for both tho oorlnters and distances dis-tances from Antorlca. Mnyle Ernie will be u bit surprised himself when John Paul Jones and a few more of Undo Sam's boys, who have developed a bit since HJortberg wont to Sweden, show tholr wares. |
