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Show :: Giants' Boss Not Hard-Boiled Rogers llornsby, discussing his baseball playing code, his Ideas of .. leadership, attitude toward the game and the fans, leaves the distinct " i T u m "X I t v- T wo I . x ; i 4 l I A m JC V I 1 jr ' i f John J. McGraw. t" impression that he comes of. the same school that T turned out John J. McGraw or perhaps It was Mc- J Graw that started it. jr At any rate, It is general- X ly understood' that McGraw will turn over the full reins I of leadership to Hornshy T when thegray-haired veteran I decides to retire. He has T given Rogers a pretty free I hand this season a nunilier T of limes and the results 4- haven't been unsatisfactory, i "A lot of people have the t idea that McGraw Is hard- 1 boiled," llornsby said, "hut T they have him all wrong. X "Probably they got the T i notion because Mac is deci- I she and forceful In the way T he does tilings. He gives -j- orders and expects them to T he followed. He doesn't do x any second-guessing. If a mistake is make on his or- ders, t lie player isn't blamed. Z. "1 would rather work for McGraw than any other man In baseball J T because I realize, and s do all the other players, thai he's forgotten X T n ' ' 1 1 ! x ' W - .iiore baseball than we know. t "There isn't any friction on the club, either. You " hear stories about wrun- gling in the clubhouse or on the bench once in a while. They're bunk. We may not always work smoothly, but there Isn't .. any argument over who's : i lie team nr why. "You know, they think I'm hard-boiled, too. They said that of me when I .. was managing the Car-" Car-" dinals last year. I don't do any kidding around on the field. If that's what they mean. When I'm out " there. It's all business. "I like McGraw's met h- ods. It wasn't dillictilt X for me to adjust myself to the Giants' style of , play. The game Is th - same. When Mac puts eon-T eon-T lidence enough In me to 4- Rogsrs Hornsby. J- T j- let me run the club at times I attempt to follow out Ills plans Just J X as though he were on the bench." -j- . , , , , .... , T |