| Show ALL KINDS OF CRITICISMS HAVE BEEN SHOT AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE NEW YORK GIANTS ON THEIR SHOWING BUT SEEMS TO HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA Discussing base baseball aJl in general recently John McGraw I 1 havo have b been cn greatly amused for lou louthe the thelast last three thieo and a half h. years at nt tho the numerous criticisms on the Giants Grilles Critics all nil over tho the country have hl agreed the team Is not a championship championship championship champion champion- ship one Yet tho the Giants have havo won three pennants in a low lea and right no- no now are pointed toward another If H it is not a champlon championship hlo team what Is It These critics have hn Invariably argued alon along these lines Take fake the Giants in individually individually In- In an and thero are two or three teams In the National lea league c stronger stranger than they arc Unity Is Thing That Is the answer right there Taken individually there mB may be bo clubs as strong as New ew York is But nut why hy Make them Individually when unity Is 15 the toe thing In baseball A manager could have a a. team of oC stars and still not win a championship If It there were no machine pIa play piny That Is the tho thing ever every manager Is after team after team pIa play It I la Is latho tho tha hardest thing to develop and once developed elope to maintain Take any of or the great championship teams of oC the past and It is found they vero ero all long on team play No team that has hns succeeded In winning a couple of ot championships consecutively ins has been without It Occasionally a 0 team ma may nash hash to the fore foro In a race without a great r at amount of ot machine work orl but Invariably It Is because other clubs have been shot to pieces g b by injuries and illness and tho the strength of or the time opposition thus Is widely scattered I Z would rather have ha a club of or players players play play- ers who could and amid would work together than a team of ot Individual stars I know that every other manager feels cel e exactly the tho same Hl way cay about it They Win Perhaps the tho Giants Glanb individually are not us its brilliant performers as other com corn I nm nn not going lu to discuss it The Tho thing that I am nm principally interested In Is winning au and to win In thero there must be unity both in attack and defense e. e The Gla Giants have this That is all aU that Is essary In 1903 the Cleveland club dub with eight hitters enrolled enroll J was undoubtedly undoubted one oneat of at the strongest batting combinations the game amo of ot baseball has ever er known n For Fortha Forthe the tho most the pla players rs were consistent slug slug- gers With Ith Joss Bernard Boward Rhoades Hess and Moore It was well in pItchers pItch pItch- ers ert- But the club could cout not nor win con con- enough to grab a championship This Is ono one of ot tho the most striking examples exam plea pIes In In tho the history of or the tho game ame an and proves conclusively what McGraw contend contend con con- tend tend Another Example The Tho Athletics of this year ear furnish another another an an- other example of it When Iuen the pitchers were going poorly an and the team was not hitting in its normal stride It U stilt still managed managed managed man man- aged to bo be In iii the tight nn and t after 1 assuming assum um- um ing Ins the tho lead to maintain It This was accomplished through h. h no other medium than team pia play Another example cample was Wall the Chicago American league club of or 1906 a team known as the tho hitless wonders It was I II not a batting organization Neither I was I I It Jl a u perfect fielding macl machine ne In fact It It was char charged ed with many errors of at commission com corn ml mission lon but never ne an error of ot omission or Judgment was WIlS registered against ag it It was a perfect machine In m every re re- re spool It s scored more runs on fewer hits than nn any clu club has since The Tho players worked together tog |
