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Show LADYLIKE TREND OF BALL GAMES Calm Replaces Fire and Dash of Old-Time Giants. Baseball fans with a memory long enough to extend back to the day wen John McGraw von "Mnggsy" find his New York Glunts took butting practice on the Jawg of their opponents, oppo-nents, took occasion recently to lament the "ladylike" trend of the modern game. When Roger Bresnnhan, celebrated In his playing days a one of the flghtlngest of the fighting Giants, asked the Pittsburgh police for protection pro-tection during their recent series In the home town of the Pirates, the old timers lamented the reformation of the last survivor of the old time warriors. war-riors. MrGraw established a new order of things when he hurled the "Muggsy" purt of Ills character, tucked away the uniform that hnd hcon so familiar on the coaching lines and went Into mufti to lead his tenm from the bench. Larry Doyle reached the end of his big iPBgue playing days and Art Fletcher graduated Into the Job of manager. "Oil" Smith, a scrappy young catcher, who hud heard of the old fighting Glunts and tried to keep the reputation going, was '. tnrned I loose and the other members of the team were warned that umpire baiting bait-ing and flst-flghtlng were not essential essen-tial qualifications of a ballplayer. In- his fighting days McGrnw, ne doubt was following a natural Inclination In-clination that came from the old Baltimore Bal-timore Oriole school to be a doormat To' tPi if i A, n Manager John J. McGraw. for no- man and to fight for erery point Hut his belligerence also may have been a by-product of an equally nntural leaning toward showmanship, The Olants Hiways drew .well on the road 'regardless: of -the class ot their club. The fans saved their money to visit the bail park when the CIrnts were there to razs the scrh'.py manager man-ager and sit In on a few figtits t.'iat were always threatened and many times materialized. In his maturing days, the fighting nature of-McGraw softened as might be expected. Old men, as baseball rates men of McGraw's years, do not have the fire and the spirit of youth and they are not quickly aroused. They learn from experience to think first before swinging. ; 'McGraw's reformation, however, was purely practical.? No lloiibt he still has an pccfslbn'n'I Inclination to chastise chas-tise an umpire or have his players do It for him but as a man In the business busi-ness of winning pennants he knows that a Rtar bull player on the bench under suspension is of no value to the club. |