Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1913 — PRAISE FOR OSCAR STANAGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRAISE FOR OSCAR STANAGE

Californian Is Considered by Manager Jennings as Wonderful Catcher —Also Hard Hitter. Tiger pitchers have pitched not alone good but in several instances phenomenal bajl against the eastern clubs. There are performances by Mullin, Summers, Donovan and Lafltte that stand out as accomplishments in pitching above the ordinary. Due credit is given these pitchers for masterly performances, but in this case, as in others, there is a “man behind,” and in this particular case the man behind is Oscar Stanage, the Californian, who receives the shoots, curves, fast balls, spitters and slow ones of the Tiger hurlers. Hughie Jennings has always insisted that Stanage is a wonderful catch-

er. Hughie said that & few years ago. | Since the present season opened many I have been heard to agree with Hugh .Ambrose. Cool-headed, quick-thinking, StrongArmed Oscar, the boy with the broad shoulders and massive muscle development, who “can throw the ball like a shot and hit It a mile,” is the man 40 whom much of the credit for tbs

success of Detroit’s pitching staff isl due. Quick to outguess a batter, sure in receiving, accurate in throwing, and the best judge of hit and run and base-stealing intention in the world, Stanage stands supreme today in the American league as a backstop. Stanage rarely asks for a pitch-out He does not ask his pitchers to make a wide pitch so that he can get a man stealing. When Stanage asks for a wide pitch chances are four out of five that the runners for whose benefit, or rather detriment, the wide pitch is ordered will try to advance.

Oscar Stanage.