Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1916 — CLASSY RIGHT-HAND PITCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLASSY RIGHT-HAND PITCHER

Fred Toney of Cincinnati Is Ranked With Alexander —Performing in . Clever Fashion. In Fred Toney. Manager Mathewson of Cincinnati, has one of the classiest right-handed pitchers in baseball, a man who ranks with Alexander in effectiveness, and who will give the Quaker star a run for pitching honors in all likelihood v this season. Toney is a Southerner, having been born in Nashville, Tenn., 26 years ago. He first began pitching regularly in 1900 with an amateur team known as the Free Silver Sluggers, in Nashville, and lost but two games all year. The following season he played semiprofesslonally in Nashville, winning 26 out of 31 games. In 1908 he played for a time with the Bowling Green

(Ky.) team, and in mid-season received a tryout with the Winchester club of the Blue Grass league. He made good and the following year wa* the star of the league, though he didn’t advance. In 1909 he made such u sensational record that the Philadelphia Nationals obtained him and took him up at the close of the year. He was shifted to Chicago, where he played the following year, and after a couple of seasons figured in another swap, this time to the Reds, with whom he is now performing in brilliant fashion.

Fred Toney.