Show I I Team Work Gets Results S Says MCGraW ting Out flag Hopes of Giants 1 1923 Team Training at San Antonio Appeals Appeals Ap Ap- peals More to Manager Than Any in Long Career S McGRAW M GRAW BEGINS NEW SERIES John J. J McGraw begins a new series of baseball stories in The Tile Telegram today which promises to make just as asgood asgood good reading for the fans fans' as his famous serial My Thirty Years in Baseball just concluded These stories which will vill appear on on The Telegrams Telegram's sport page pages pages' every Monday throughout the season will be to the com comment and opinions opinions-of of the 1923 pennant race as as it progresses es with inside dope on all the other teams and individual stars A weekly feature to keep you posted By John Jofin J. J McGraw Manager Worlds World's Champion Giants PENNANT RACE STORY STORY STORY-NO NO 1 1 sd SA CAN ANTONIO March 26 The The Giants and I will soon be out for another pennant I team m myself with my players because we are a unit in our desire and determination to win three world championships In n a row S We may not break all records b by doing that but we shall shaH all work I together as one man and teamwork will accomplish big big- results It is I If the chief asset of any winning team I consider too that I never never had a lot of pla players ers who vho appear to tome tome tome me any more capable of being into a baseball machine than those I have now with me Inthis in inthis inthis this training camp In fact I never managed a team during my long career that has appealed appealed appealed ap ap- ap- ap pealed to me as so worthy of my I confidence that they will be in the coming pennant race from fron start to finish Their work so far this has been really tn to i me e as well well well-as as to io my y assistants ns S l t. t Jennings and Dolan Both of them W have have done their full ull share in shaping shaping shaping shap shap- ing the boys up to their pr present ent fine form I haye have a splendid lot of players JOHN JOHN-J. J with me They are all working to together together together to- to gether with a spirit to push to the front that has been as Inspiring to them as it has to me The veterans on the team who have already won two worlds world's championships In succession are not at all chesty over their success nor overconfident about this years year's years result They are really quite modest I mention this for tJ tile the e reason that last spring I felt called d upon to take methods to subdue their cockiness over their prevIous seasons season's victory and defeat of the Yankees When the White Sox played their first two or three exhibition games against His us us in 1922 my boys got the toe idea Into their noodles th that t they could beat the American leaguers of my old friend Kid on their rep reputation t Uon as worlds world's champions alone The Sox quickly dissolved those chesty chumps' chumps minds minas of ot any su such h fallacy S Then I took a hand and what I handed out to them in the shape of verbal was as a a. caution I said You are no longer the worlds world's best You are only minor leaguers Now just jus forget you are on top of the heap heat Start right over x again from now on and think of else elsa but hut the championship to come They saw their faults faulis ana and railings failings also my point and lo looked like I another team in the next game and throughout that exhibition series Kid IId Ol Gleason ason is a wise old bird and a splendid manager He He- was th the one who threw throw the hammer into my machine that time by saying before the first game his pitchers were not in shape I think th the Kid will find the the- situation a a. a bit different spring l I My pitchers are all aU in fine condition with the exception of Jack Jacl Scott and Bill Ryan who reported late fell Bancroft Into line all right and nd was as pleased as aa I was when he ha nande de me his sl signed ned co contract tra t He I Is Invaluable to the team as capt captain in It Is 15 almost too early for me to make predictions about about my my young pitchers I have though th the most promising bunch one could desire desie Just which ones I shall shan retain I cannot say as yet N Neither am I 1 predicting the pennant for the Giants next fall fail Still good od pitching I will keep us In the race and I have some very nifty nitty talent among the youngsters I Copyright 1923 by The Christy Walsh Syndicates Syndicate l The next McGraw article the will bo ho on pennant race pJ printed l on these pages next Monday 5 V |