Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — GIANT KILLER EASY FOR SOUTHERNERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIANT KILLER EASY FOR SOUTHERNERS

Ball players said this spring that they would "get to” Covaleskie, the big Pole whom Chattanooga is carting along as one of its star attractions, and it looks like they are making good. The "Giant Killer" is no longer in the bearcat class if the scores that have been made against him recently give a fair idea of the work he is going to do this season. ▲bout the only, reason ball players had for saying they would hit Covaleskie this season after woefully failing last season was that they would play the same kind of a game against him that they played against any ordinary pitcher. "We’ll test his control,” they said. "He used to get away with fcost anything, because he had us buffaloed.” Whatever was the cause there is no doubt that Covaleskie put the jinx on many good ball players In the Southern league last season. They dropped their little angoras just as soon as he came in sight. Some of them were bewildered with bls speed, others feared his lack of control would result

In Ms slamming them on the bean, others gave up trying to hit him simply because they didn’t think they had a chance. —*—-i——When Covaleskie went back to the big circuit a lot of Southern fans thought he would keep Up his spectacular work, and when he failed to do this they began to wonder whether he was the pippin pitcher that he had been cracked up to be. When Ms return to the Southern league was announced, ball players started* contriving bis downfall. There is no doubt that Covaleskie is some pitcher. He has speed enough to singe the atmosphere between the ’box and the plate, and when Ms aim is good he is pretty sure to set a pace that only a good team can keep up with.

Pitcher Covaleskie of New Orleans.