Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 18 | Alexander's Success with Cardinals due to Hornsby

Alexanders Alexander's Success With Cardinals Caras Due e to Hornsby Joe McCarthy Failed to Handle Great Grover I Right When With Cubs CHICAGO Nov 13 United Press Those Press Those who tal take e the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage Cubs baseball team rat rather seriously here say that a reaction is beginning to take place regarding t that deal in the middle of last season cason which sent Grover Grovel Alexander f to the St. St Louis cardinals The reaction has o 0 do 10 with a general general gen gen- general eral changing hanging of fan lan minds reAL re- re AL 1 I i. i ANnI A id Mr fl r R 0 ardin whether n. n or or n not t Joseph McCarthy manager of the Cubs used such good Judgment after aftel all In getting rid of ot Alexander When fans read Alexander had been released for fOI breaking training rules the general opinion was that the big bum be released he aint been working But when It turned out that Al Alexander Alexander Alexander Al- Al had just what was needed to mal make e of the Cardinals a worlds world's championship outfit they thought It over But the general cause of the tu tumult tumult tu- tu seems to be the fac fact that if the Cubs had had one more good pitcher say pf the caliber of Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander in that last month of the National league race there might have been a different story to write about the last worlds world's series But those who still remain loyal to McCarthy concede this and then offer In rebuttal the statement that Alexander was of no account to the Cubs the way he was going Alexanders Alexander's actions on the tho field were evidence that he was not working as hard as in former years When Bill Bm Killefer managed the team he he worked every minute that he was on the field When he I wasn't pitching to batters or teaching teaching teach teach- ing some young pitcher all he could I about the art of curving them he hi was hitting fungo files flies to the out out- fie field Id This year it was different Alexander Alex Alex- ander pitched and that was about abou t all Why hy the sudden letup some somi c fans ask that proof enough 1 that he wasn't hustling And Anc I doesn't that Justify Mac I Fans sa say this i is is' why Alexander had lad been used to having ing his Judgment Judg judg- ment meat respected on the team He Hi I had been accustomed to being asked Hii i about thinas And It If ant be ho ne- ne nied that he lie he knows vs something i. i But McCarthy preferred to keep keel I his own counsel He treated Ale Alex just like any other ball player an anit and I it got under tinder his skin That brings It down clown to one point Hornsby was equal to the task of 01 managing Alex McCarthy was not As evidence of Hornsby's managerial managerial man man- ability Alex did dill just about as he pleased Hornsby Hornsb has an at opinion that if a a ball player delivers I Ion on the field It is nobody's business I what he does off the field And despite his little eccentricities ties Alex commands respect for foi what he can do and does know That little Incident in the last game i of the worlds world's series serles proves that After Jess Haines had split his finger fin fin- finger ger get Hornsby Hornsb called his whole team I arou around d him at the pitchers pitcher's box an and I II asked we pitch now now One word came in unison Alex Alex had worked the day before but the whole team w was s swilling 3 willing to put the entire worlds world's C series right back on his shoulders Alexander didn't have anything to tc say about wh what t was going on among amoni the Cubs Hornsby Hornsb- respected his judgment Ther Therefore fore Alex Alev won won