Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1916 — PFEFFER IS CLIMBING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PFEFFER IS CLIMBING

Dodget* Twirler Trying to Duplicate Feat of Alexander. He Is Out Beyond Philly Star, Mamaux and All Others —Manager Robinson Believes Him to Be Greatest of Pitchers. Big Ed Pfeffer of the Dodgers i* trying to duplicate the feat of. Grover Cleveland Alexander. Last year Alex, the Great pitched the Philadelphia club Into a pennant. Pfeffer is actively engaged in an endeavor to accomplish thesame thing for Brooklyn this year. Big Ed is leading the National league burlers now. He is out beyond Alexander, Mamaux, Anderson and all the rest. Wilburt Robinson, manager of the Dodgers, believes that Pfeffer Is ns. great a pitcher as there is in baseball. He does not concede that Alexander or even Walter Johnson has anything on the Brooklyn left-hander this year. Pfeffer has been a good pitcher ever since he broke into the National league. Only Alexander, Mamaux and Toney were ranked ahead of him last year. He won 19 games and lost 14, and allowed an average of .209 runs per fame. ' , The Dodger star had a better record In 1914, his first season in Brooklyn. That year he won 23 and lost 12 and only allowed .197 runs per game. Pfeffer stands six feet three Inches high and weighs 210 pounds. He Is twenty-seven years old and was born In Champaign, HI. He began his career at La Crosse in. the Minnesota-Wisconsin league in 1909. Then he went to Fort Wayne

in the Central league. In 1911 he was bought by the St. Louis Americans, but turned back to Fort Wayne. In September, 1911, after a season at Fort Wayne, during which he won 10 and lost five games, Pfeffer was bought by Denver. He worked in five games for the Colorado city in the spring of 1912, and was sent back to Fort Wayne, which club truded him to Grand Rapids. In 1913 Pfeffer won 25 and lost eight games for Grand Rapids. That fall he was drafted by Brooklyn. His success vrith the Dodgers was instantaneous. He was the pitching sen sation of 1914. He bids fair to have the best season of his career this year. His object is to duplicate the feat of Alexander, and pitch his club into a pennant.

Ed Pfeffer.