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McGraw Started With New York Team 25 Years rears Ago By nr GEORGE DWICK Special Correspondent of The Thc Standard Examiner Eta Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association NEW YORK June JUM 25 25 Things had bad been goIng from bad to worse with the ball roll team at Cedar Rap Rap- Rapids Rapids ids Iowa A wisp of ot a 3 player va Va- variously Variously called the runt the Wee Pee and several other dc- dc terms by other members member of ot the team teamS stuck out his jaw jaw- jawan jalan an an- angrily angrily angrily and blurted out to the catch catch- catcher er err er who was his friend Take Tak this blasted old ball team you and all of ot you ou take it and keep it t and go to the devil with it Some day Ill I'll boss one of ot my m o the lg leagues Hear the sparrow chirp tho the other othet players retorted Men ten play in big leagues not midgets HIS ms COMPLETE TRIUMPH Some years later Ilter a number of ot years year in fact tact John J. J McGraw flushed with a Do victory won by the theN New N w York Giants a victory that meant much to him for tor the mo mo- moment moment ment called C out to tho the ground keeper of ot the rob Polo grounds rounds Say SlY Henry remember the time I told you that I would run runa a a. club in the big leagues leas some someday someday someday day Well Well Well- You bet I do John The mite mile of ot a player out in Ce Ce- Cedar Cedar dar Rapids was John J. J McGraw of ot Truxton N. N Y His friend the catcher Henry Fabian afterward became ground keeper of ot the tho Polo grounds because McGraw remembered remembered his association with th him at I Cedar Rapids Fabian had been expert ground keeper for tor tho the St St- StLouis Ix Louis Browns BroOs after McGraws McGraw's rise to the leadership of ot the tho Giants but buthe buthe he could not resist the Invitation to togo togo go io With McGraw They are re still there at tho the Polo Grounds McGraw and Fabian and now n w there Is a I. I committee organ organ- or an lied bod In New York to get set up a I. I sil all silver silver allver ver jubilee to commemorate the fact tact that McGraw has been con con- connected connected with ith the tho Giants for tor 25 years ars The Tho festivities will wll be held at the tho Polo grounds on July 10 I 1 when the Cubs Cube play the Giants MANHATTAN Ul REVELS S it was planned to make the for tor McGraw a a. testimonial to what he has done for baseball but some insisted that Idea was too broad because there were men in New York who has done do no as much or more mere for baseball than McGraw had ever done H Is only a a. youngling after all It was much more to the point to make it 0 a jubilee for tor what Mc Mc- McGraw McGra McCraw Craw Graw had done for tor New ew York In baseball and let New ew York ok Yo k revel in her ber own little island way On the other side of ot the East river In Brooklyn there are those who think McGraw never DOver did anything for tor baseball and certainly n nt t for tor Brooklyn A good many keen eyed observers ors ers see in the benefit for tor McGaan an advance information that the he close of ot his career as pilot of ot otho ho ho Giants is near at hand More light will 11 be shed on the question of ot McGraws McGraw's retirement at t the tho end cn of the present resent J baseball season WINS MOST PENNANTS rI McGraw has won more pennants for tor a Do single city than any other manager has won in the majors They have all been for fo New York very VCr first pennant that he won with the Giants started baseball in ina ina a n. broil It wap sva in 1304 He lie had bad finished well up In the race in 11 1503 1903 and made the Giants look promising but he had tho the bet best bestman man roan in the world along with him That man was John T. T Brush Without the operation co-operation of ot Brush Drush McGraw might have been b en as big bigas aa as II he became and he might not Who shall tell 1 In 1904 the American league wanted to enter Into a a. post sea postseason son series of ot games with the tho GI GU ants anta Boston won the American league pennant Neither Brush nor McGraw l wanted to play chief chiefly ly 13 I because of ot personalities which h had been slung freely about by bytho bythe bythe the tho president of ot tho the American league The players were also op opposed op 01 posed to a a. series They The didn't play but the Giants G won on again in 1905 1906 and played a world series because In the tho previous winter Brush had suddenly summoned a friend one night the night the friend was Wl John B. B Foster tho the baseball writ writ- writer er and er-and and they drafted dratte l. l the tho world orld cones rules and then got the two leagues to approve e them McGraw w won his first world series in 1905 1105 hands bands down After that he ho never ne won much of ot an hands down downIn In a a. world series No manager ever lived who has been In so much hot water as Mc Mc- Graw He Ho has defied presidents of ot leagues as long as lS ho dared has hasT T been Involved in Innumerable scrapes with umpires and almost got cot sidetracked in a I. I with tho the newspapers yet for twenty- twenty five years the score cards have ha carried his name at the Polo grounds That's why they will win give giva him a out blow in New York on July 19 11 in s typical New York way way ty five years on the score cards |