Show V STATES REASONS BALL STARS SLUMP 1 NEW YOm Jan 23 23 By By The Press lrus salaries and ioni aon re rc held beld responsible lc by byJ y John J olin J vice vice president and manager maneger of the York for or a a 11 decline in the ability 0 ma IDa lor lot league baseball Thir Th T- T is ts 8 not a a player toda today he heb heb b 1 ll 11 vc ve who can hold a candle o 0 ic C playing paying of Ty Cobb Honus and many others oth r when wn wr In their prime pi fifteen years ears ago aeo In those thoM day days play players r practiced hours hour a II day to perfect he explained d But no longer Is this true After the raining season and early games are ar over they practice fifteen or thirty minutes a day Then they are off In their automobiles or there are other things 10 to o demand their time McGraw however is not pessi pessi- pessimistic pessimistic mistie over o conditions for tor or It Is his belief that with the one exception ex exception tP tion baseball has Improved in ev- ev every ev every ery cry way The game I Is h cleaner and better organized d Playing fields are arc much better and trav tray traveling traveling eling cling accommodations i arc aro greatly Improved More people than ever attend the games SPLENDID RECORD Ten 1 Ten pennants and three world championships have beta bein won by V McGraw since cince he has managed the Giants Glant Outside of directing the the team on the diamond he attributes at- at attributes tributes much of lii his success to trades with other clubs cluba and the development of rookies Many lany times I have let a a good goodman goodman goodman man In one position so go because I needed more strength at another I place he lie said Laid To win pennants I you OU must have a good goad all round all-round club If It you are very weak In one department then you ou must strengthen It even en It if it Is Ic sary to lessen somewhat the ef efficiency d- d fc at another point p In the selection of rookies Mc McGraw Mc- Mc McGraw McGraw Graw relies relics greatly upon the judg judg- judgment judgment ment of ot his hl scouts but when the new men enter the training camp each spring he ha forms forme his own opinion as to those to lo bo hu kept I I ece sc-e something In 1 man the first time tinie I watch him hint practice he related It U may lucy be bo an 1111 asset or a fault but It Is la recorded all the same caine The Tho first thing I look tor for Is speed As Ae for tor mentality 11 Il ii is impo- impo Impossible imposible impossible sible to tell whether d a map mag has hasa hasa II a good baseball head until ho he hohas hohas has hos been In at least several se games Sly Iy observations during thirty six years have taught mo me that a dumb player Is always dumb You cant can't get It out of oC them This fault has hu kept manya many a player front from being a Second Cobb or Wagner agner FAULTS P During a training m-ason m ason Mc McGraw Mc- Mc McCraw Ic- Ic Graw Craw devotes a as much time to rookies as he does to his regulars Each man has to be handled lI dif dif- dif dlf differently Faults have to be bo cor- cor corrected cor corrected In most everyone If It I believe a a recruit has bas real ability I stick to him through rough his poor exhibitions he said sala Take Marquard as an example I got him from Indianapolis and for three years he was wild Then ho he found his control was the same way two way two cases of nerves Ross Young came to me as an infielder I told him e 1 was an outfielder and farmed him out for experience before he came back and made mado good In thu the outer gar garden gar gar- garden garden den Occasionally I get a a manlike man mal manlike like Greenfield our kid pitcher who on his first appearance pitched like a veteran deran McGraw said aId he be given a thought to retiring |