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Show MORAN SAYS HIS MEN TEND TO BUSINESS CINCINNATI, Oct. 1. A champion j basebp 11 player must keep his mind on the game. The ability of the Cincinnati players to think baseball, dream baseball, talk baseball and live baseball has made them a pennant-winning aggregation, according ac-cording to Manager Pat Moran. "If the fellows had thought about automobiles, shows and everything else in the world but baseball, they would not be where they are now," said Moran, in explaining how his team captured the National league Mag atid became con-! con-! tenders for the world's championship. "I guess that holds good in most any game you arc playing. A player must be interested in-terested and he must think about his game. When he does this lie is always up and coming, taking advantage of every opportunity," Pat has been characterized as a miracle man, wonderful leader, and so on through the catalogue of descriptive phrases, but he modestly insists the players are responsible re-sponsible for the success of the Cincinnati Cincin-nati club, "I have a great ball club; that's the whole story," he said. "Not only is it a great ball .club, but it is a club of fellows fel-lows who take care of themselves and put their minds on their work. No man can make good in any line of life unless he has the Instruments to succeed with. I have a good bunch of players, so give them the credit. All I did was to hold the boys together. They won the ball games." Followers of the Reds, however, will not let Moran take a back seat without showering some praise on him. They say that Cincinnati had good players, but that |