Show I J I t a 4 l ji v J f I 1 t T 0 THE SALT LAKE LAKrE v TELEGRAM TELEGRAM-f. t J r is t L j I I I I f 1 r D aL' aL J i j F f Robinsons Robinson's s r Friendship jf r for or t Players jr Secret of Brooklyn Clubs Club's Success I L 4 1 L S t j I b c c jc id- id 1 1 de f c i S 4 S 'S r I UA N I f I I f EAT J AM Pan S Brooklyn Manager Believes That That- Thata a Pat on the Shoulder Will Do More T Toward award Getting a B Ball ll Player in His Stride Than the Imposition of a Fine and r- r C T T That's at s Why the T Team earn Is the Sen- Sen 1 V 1 of the Season J 4 I 5 By BOZE BOZEMAN BOZEMAN A BULGER ULGER NEW NEWYORK YORK Aug Aug 28 Unless Unless 8 Unless youk Youki you k ki know ow Wilbert Robinson n otC off the tho field Its IS Is 8 rather difficult to to understand nd h his his' ls method pf ot Ind indeed ed Ii It can b be called a method It is moreth more th tho dissemination of ot good nature and loyal loal companionship Now that Robbie is leaping to fame lame in rapid bounds and his club is within striking distance of ot the National Na No league championship they are beginning to tp call him a a. G Genius a Tactician a General This makes the veteran manager or PC the Dodgers ers v k vIf I la laugh i If lf I had been a a. genius he says it would would ha have e broken out out b before Core I 1 became a grandfather i if t t there cro 1 is is anything new new in the way I handle handlo a n. ball club I dont don't know It Eve Ive simply got a. a a good gang JanE of or fellows s together ether and they Rr ar are winning because they are ale enthusiastic sUc bout about it I always s 's shae have hae believed that a l pat on pat on the shoulder shoulder der will do moro more toward getting a ball player player- in his stride than tho the Imposition imposition imposition im im- Im- Im position of at ofa ata a fine A A. fellow who has hasto to be tin d all ll the time is more trouble trou trou- ble blo than hes he's worth It is Irs better to get rid lid of him That practically sums up the tho so- so called caned Robinson method in getting eUing to together together together to- to gether a a. ball club that Is creating a a. sensation in iii the National league Getting G right down to the rac lIc heal I needs of or a a ball hail club club- Robinson believes that a It pitching staff stat counts more moro than tIJan anything and and- he h has s proved d th the of that theory Heh He 8 llY put l together ge her a string o of mostly young men men men- and they have turned the trick Hitting Isi s always was necessary but it is Inter Inter- r t to note that the tho Dodgers aroID aro arc ID fl W getting g to to the top lop with a team learn that Is ia not hitUn hitting HP so o well as the bno no that oer overe the ottom Th The pitch pitching Ins Ins' has done it Jt The Brooklyn manager is 18 a strong belie cr In the necessity pf ot handling different men In different ways He IC quickly re reads ds their natures and treats t them em acco accordingly He Hc says that no two twp men can be be h handled exa exactly ll alike aUke For instance n e. e when wilen Robinson fir first t came to U as coach he lo found Rube Marquard and pd Unable un unable un- un able ible l to get control l of C the the b baH bal i. i He Ho was waa confident th that t Marquard had the tho natural and began by making a comrade d of oC him h to tp learn the young tello fellows fellow's personal peculiarities e He Marquard to believe c that th he was ws Wf S a a. pitcher and that he could get control D Day D y after afler day Iday ho he worked with hl him for tw two months o or OI m more mord r and finally y old oh M that tha the Rube was ready He tHen iHen had Jim his one oile best year yean e r Whether r ab absence ab sence Renee has had anything to 10 o d do with Marquard's decline Is t t say Bay but the fact r remains maln that the Rube has nas not had a real good year yer r since the theold old aid ld atcher catcher left lett lh the GIanTs s to be omo a a. manager As S Manager R Robinson J knew that ho could not be o on tho same footing with vitti his own own men men as s h he had hitt wll with th the thO Giants while assisting McGraw h he therefore Jumped at the chance pf of getting Jack Jacl Coombs Coomb And ho wanted d Coombs on the team whether he lie was able ble to pitch or net In Tn fact tact the chance p of Coombs b able ble to pitch winning ball w was wis 1 secondary In ht hi thoughts He wanted a veteran r n pitcher wh who work wit It i the th youn pitchers RB as a a. and do with them Just what he hp Robbie had done with the Youngsters of at the plants plants' lJ l ti lt Is bd I pr proof t f of at the soundness pf ot his Judgment Wh When n ho first toOk charge chargo ot of the Dodgers Dodgers' Bobbie Robbie found s several veral players who were dissatisfied dissatisfied with their lot Jot and ahu n whose whose hos plaints the tho Chance tchon e ot of h hiving having B. B a crowd pC bf oC athletes t r who could hh hovea ib spirit lot of c mr deil i Instead of ot re resort Ink to tId Uie purpose q qZ f enforcing r die dis f. he e simply limply got rid rid rid-of f pl ot their nat natural ral re ret t pf ot the p paY paY- ayers ayr ay ers era era q quickly rf found that t they ey were working together as friends and anil the desire to lo win Increased with the thc growth pf of this this' comradeship Robinson has introduced no new methods In playing the g game ine and has shown nothing nothing- startling In the he hc way of ot strategy Last spring down at nt Daytona Robbie Rob Rob- bie ble was criticised b by some of at the tho experts experts experts ex ex- ex- ex for allowing l his ls players to I indulge In in- in In too much golf golC As the 1 links link's nJ 8 I were ne near r tho the ball bali grounds golf golt Jot got to tp be a mania for the club and the players could talk of ot nothing else Before and after aCter base baseball all practice every ery day there thero would be he twenty six or pr twenty eight pf ot them then out put tr trying Ing their their- ha d at the old Sc Scotch game It wont hurt hUlt them Rabble Bobble said in answer r to his critics because they are arc having a good time Yo YoU Yott must remember that most ball players play play- ers nr are a n lot of pf boys and this is a n. fad tad with with- them Just like Ilke marbles s or tops are with the little kids at certain tam tain times times' of at the tho Y year Tearl ir l ld id d Jath rather r see eco them playing golf Jolt and enjoying themselves themselves them them- selves than sitting around the tho hotel grouching about their treatment I II I know of or one when Instance when Rob Rob- was with the Giants where he took toole three players payers all of oC whom were going b badly I on a week end camping trip on the tho Brazos river In in Texas They pr prepared pared their own food tood had a great time and baseball was not even mentioned On their return the tho young young fellows all ull began to deliver dellver the tho goods As si a result of ot this unique wa way of or overcoming diamond slumps lh the tho players como como coma to look upon Robbie Robbi asa ns as a n a frend forgetting that he is the he manager And that tha ia is really the tIme Bob Hoh- lison method As ono ana of or the players said the other day Hos Hes a R grand old SU guy and that looks like the answer |