| Show 44 t McGraw System Hard to Beat probably tn typifies the spirit of the Giants The slim third baseman a a regular In the Na ha- F year old league for tor the last 11 six li Beo seasons ons has become one ono of at the greatest greatest greatest great great- est hitters bitters In 10 the game Ills His fielding ability has bas been unquestioned from the this first day dal he broke In as al a brilliant but Inexperienced seven len seventeen teen teen year year old And Anil LIndstrom has haa been ben a better third baseman with each ch succeeding year says cays a writer In an exchange After you say nay LIndstrom Is la a fine hitter and a fine fielder he Is still BUll a mighty Influence on the ball ban team lie Ue has hill a way about him him- joyous confident and game that game that percolates through the rest of the z ball club He loves to win for the thet ther t r 4 sake of winning Baseball to hIm f Is II first a n game and then a pro pro- fr Playing flaying ball boll for John McGraw y Is a rather grim business for most athletes So much penalty la is attached attached at at- Cached to a single lingle slip nut But Lindstrom Lind- Lind 3 strom somehow manages to keep kep yA his philosophical balance He k doesn't let McGraw faze him In Inthe x the slightest lie He Is fa perhaps the theda da only Giant who ever evet had the cast- cast iron gall to kid his hard bard boiled t manager jai ss Here Is one story I out of a I II s The Giants Jumped L s fN last after western i city season Just 1 winning a 11 close final game through II a brilliant play piny of Fred Lindstrom n which cut off the t tying Ins run at the plate pine In the tile ninth Fred went over behind third base bose for a hard hord smash came up with It and while off otT balance hal bal ance threw hOl home borne e to Hogan to nail noli the sliding runner by b- b ba a an eyelash eat sat l In tho the diner that night Across the aisle sat John McGraw McGrow Entered a n newspaper newspaper man That was ns a great play you jou made this afternoon Fred murmured murmured the newcomer Freddy waved Freddy waved tile the compliment airily to one side Its nothing he said loudly Indicating his doughty manager toilIng toil toil- Ing lag with a 0 steak It was the McGraw system that's hots all John McGraw McGrow glared lint Hut there might have hate been Just a hint of a twinkle In his life bard gray eyes Other Giant Giant players have lm fallen afoul of what Und called the McGraw system at lit one time or another t |
