Show ITS IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE HAS QUIT x 7 ft JQ air r l NW Mt GR ID V ELE og jt N G LEAPE 5 PRIME lIS-PRIME Nf A IN ii'S D J v 3 LD e I 5 a I ON PI t 4 i i nr C I I is t HIS 6 WIN Ib IK MAV 24 E T I 9 V tt t II 1 E 2 4 On r forE S CN gD I G M-E M 4 OLO tk OltA N J 1 1 Started With 9 Errors J Jawn's a Initial Game Wasn't So Rosy Never Nevel Forgave Ump Kiem Klem By nr WILLIAM 1 nR EA Service Sports Writer It is hard to believe John McGraw really has resigned as manager his heart Is is isso so concerned with aUthe all aU the doings of the game he has lived b by his ball club for so many years but he was consistent right to the very last one of his last acts as mana manager er of the thc Giants was to denounce Umpire Bill Klem as grossly incompetent It was an old feud the thc McGraw animosity toward Klem KIem going back to a l year ear when those Giants came very close to winning a pennant pennant pen pen- nant and one one or two umpires' umpires decisions either way meant the thc championship championship cham cham- Klem happened to be bethe bethe the thc umpire who called the plays McGraw could not forgive but bul Klem in the years since has remained re reo rc- rc unperturbed sure that he be hei i was right sure that he was always always always al al- al- al ways right TYPICAL OF GAME IE If It you were to take a figure in baseball today typical of ot the vcr very game itself you would have to take one of two men men the other is Connie Mack their rivalry has been traditional since the they first met metin metin metin in a world series in 1905 and McGraws McGraw's men won by tour four games to one in the games the Giants won that year Jear Macks Mack's men never made a score The years ears passed and they met again in 1911 and Mack Mackl turned the thc tables on the National league master mind winning four games to two Then two years later the they met again and the Athletics overwhelmed o the thc Giants winning four games ames to one McGraw lived in the tile hope that some someday someday someday day he would even that count McGraw never forgets not nol only does docs he cherish the thc memory ol or injuries but he keeps aflame a bri bright ht fire tire of friendship for those he likes there are arc ball players who have not played with the thc Giants for many years living on what gifts gitts they can wheedle out of oC McGraw he finds It almost impossible to refuse refuse re re- rc- rc fuse a n touch in spring in California Cal Cal- many of oC his old players turned up tip here and there with requests for loans and McGraw saw that none was in want FOUGHT TO WI WIN Smart in the thc ways of ot baseball he never has been one to take defeat complacently he would use every means within his power to win a ball game he resorted to all sorts of ot strategy and tricks to win games carnes he has been a fighter since he left peanut butchering butcher butcher- in ing on a jerkwater railroad to pl play ball at Olean N. N Y back in the thc from there he went to the glorious old Orioles the sensational team of the thc McGraw still will tell you there never was a ball club lub like those old Orioles Ned Hanlon was manager er of that team and in those days McCraw Mc- Mc Craw am weighed around pounds When he first reported for dut duty Hanlon looked over his frail physique and told the thc young fellow ho he didn't need any ny bat boys but the thc fire in the thc youngsters youngster's eye made Hanlon ehan change e his mind and McGraw could talk talk h he could talk plenty always and some of ot his words would make your very hair stand up also he was cocky unbelievably cocky Hanlon doubted if It he could make good his tall talk he lie did make it good he made it good in a n great big wa way He was tas sitting on tile the edge of or the thc Oriole bench the big fellows kept pushing him over over suddenly suddenly sud denly he leaped up and started swinging swing ing his best punches there was no more talk of Batboy McGraw the thc Orioles were fighting men they took this fighting kid to their hearts TOUGH O ON UMPIRES U He became the thc bane of ot umpires there were times even in his later years as manager of the Giants when his appearance on the thc field was the signal for a 3 riot especially espe dally daIly in Cincinnati Shortly after Andy Freedman made him manager of ot the Giants McGraw McGraw McGraw Mc Mc- Graw started to make radical changes he signed one player at an increased in creased salary Freedman told him he had been intending to let the player go McGraws McGraw's reply was He lie stays And he gets gels the thc raise he did sta stay and Freedman overruled finally decided decided de de- de to pull out of the Giants selling selling sell sell- ing ins out to John T. T Brush Brush played ball with McGraw made him the thc supreme voice I. I and McGraw l rewarded Brush by making the Giants the most colorful color colorful ful tul team in baseball what had been only a moderately successful baseball property became one of the best investments in professional sport In his handling of the club McGraw was an autocrat he was an egotist they finally be began an calling calling call call- ing him the thc master mind his name gave rise to that expression 1 as it has been used on the diamond for many years of late it has come to have a not vcr very wholesome meaning that master mind rather a lI light ht term of ot disdain 1 but of course that made no difference differ ence to McGraw w nothing made any difference to him after he had made up his mind FINED FOR HOME IE nu RUN 1 He ordered a man to bunt I the player hit a home run That will vIll cost you ou just was the thc players player's greeting as he returned to the bench There is too much thinking going goin on around here I am doing the thc thinking for this team team and and nobody else will do an any while I am on this bench McGraw was n a natural showman and knew too the value of ot the thc odd things in baseball he kept Jim Thorpe around for years after it became apparent Jim never would be able to hit a curve ball for the same reason he gave e a And Andy Cohen young oung Jewish infielder a long trial in the thc belief that thata a Jewish player would make the turnstiles click more rapidly They say he be made man many mistakes mistakes' he he let players go o for little or nothing and paid huge sums to get set them back he did not hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- tate once he did not want a ball ballplayer ballplayer ballplayer player on his team Rogers Hornsby was one o of the thc chief samples sam sam- pIes ples h he ht wanted to run the ball club McGraw gave him the theair theair theair air just as he would an any dime a dozen infielder MADE UP WITH BOBBIE ROBBIE McGraw brought Uncle Wilbert Robinson old Oriole catcher back to the game ame a's as s coach alter after Robbie Robbie Rob Rob- Ible bie had retired to the butcher business busi bush ness and Robbie Bobble made a name as one of the he greatest coaches of ot pitchers the game has hns known of ot course he had talent to work with such talent as Rube Waddell McGraw and Uncle Robbie finally had a spat and for man many years after ater Robbie Bobbie became manager of the Brooklyn club McGraw would not so much as look at Robinson 1 I and hated to hear his name j But the years mellowed him finally Anally he went to Robbie Bobbie and nd shook hands that incident gladdened I Robbie's Bobbies heart for the two had much in common having come comedown comedown down n the years cars from the thc old Orioles together I I I |