Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1911 — PITCHERS LOSE THEIR NERVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PITCHERS LOSE THEIR NERVE

Manager John McGraw of New York Giants Says Managers Ruin Young Hurlers by Changing. The custom has grown upon managers to suddenly shift pitchers if they happen to be batted hard. For that reason ball teams are carrying more pitchers in comparison with the actual work that they do on a ball field than they ever did. If pitchers who happen to be hit hard were to be kept in the game in-

stead of being sent to the bench It might be that the team would rally as quickly behind him as It would behind a fresh pitcher, and it frequently has been demonstrated In baseball that a pitcher may be bit hard In one Inning and after that hold a team to almost nothing. John McGraw to slow to change a pitcher who happens to be hit for the reason that he wants the pitcher to have every opportunity to help himself out of the trouble Into which he has fdllen. When be notes that a nitcher is not himself he |s likely to

change in a hurry, whether he is an old or a young player. There are days when the best pitchers are less effective than is usually the case when they are In the box. Before It was baseball etiquette to have almost as many pitchers on a team as there are other players combined the time was when a pitcher would be rapped for three or four runs In the rather early part of the game and yet stick through and win.

Manager John McGrew.