Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1917 — TWO YOUNG HURLERS GIVE MUCH PROMISE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO YOUNG HURLERS GIVE MUCH PROMISE

(By JACK VEIOCK, International News Sports Editor.) Two young pitchers who are earning their cakes in the big leagues this season show promise of puttipg up records before they outlive their usefulness on the rubber that will give them a place in that select set which includes only the greatest slabmen of the game. One of these two youngsters is Ferdinand “Stubblefield” Schupp, the brilliant young southpaw of the Giants. The other is Stanley Coveleskle, the sensation of the Cleveland Indians. Schupp is perhaps the most remarkable of the pair, because he is a southpaw, and as a rule the southpaws have a tough time when they turn their steps toward the pitching hall of fame. McGraw has kept his weather eye on the work of young Mr. Schupp for five years. He has always maintained that Schupp had the makings of a wonderful pitcher, but though Ferdle failed to show him anything sensational in the pitching line until last fall he clung to him, and the season of 1917 has so far proved that McGraw knew what he was about. Schupp is in his twenty-fifth year, and he Is Without a doubt the best southpaw pitcher in the National league. He is considered by many to be equally as good as Ruth and Leon-

ard, the famous Boston portslders, and from the pitching he has done so far this season there is no great argument that can be advanced to offset Schupp’s standing in fork-handed ranks. Schupp has a formidable young rival for pitching fame In Stanley Coveleskie, the Cleveland right-hander. Coveleskie is twenty-six years old. Like Schupp, young Coveleskie has youth on his side, and today he stands out as a pitching phenom who is just beginning to come into his own as a winner. Coveleskie’s work with the Cleveland Indians has been one of the biggest features of the season in so far as pitching goes. He has pitched against every club in the league, and has come through on the long end of a big majority of his games. He is one of the most effective pitchers in the big leagues this year, for he has started already to pile up a string of shutouts. Last year he allowed an average of 3.41 runs per nine innings pitched, but his 1917 record will show a smaller percentage. —— Compared to his southpaw brother on the Detroit club, Stanley Coveleskie promises to do the most to plaster fame on the family moniker, for although the older Coveleskie is a wonderful performer, his kid brother is coming on so fast that he blds fair to pass him as a winning pitcher, and at that he has his work cut out for him.

EARNING THEIR CAKES IN BIG LEAGUES.