Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — MOST PERFECT BALL JOSSER IS BROWNIE [ARTICLE]

MOST PERFECT BALL JOSSER IS BROWNIE

Grover Lowdermilk Has Shown Splendid Form This Spring. to orctn«.''iii'irirfTwi»wi«ii*iiiii,.n ~«j urr.i n'liti ' ..f r.firiCi j rr|ip‘i(fl‘UiwrtN[lwtrrin St. Louis Twlrler Has More Speed or» &>p»Wh er JL-s*W , “ ShoUld Win 25 Game. This Year. GrovttLowflermllktes shown something this spring. Grover’s great as* t>et is a fast curve. He has more peed’on his “hook” than any pitcher have more speed than Lowdermilk, but none of them can curve one over like Grover. Johnsonhas a "hop” on hlsfjst one. but life barely naked eye. Johnson, Bush, Hendrix and ullthe cannon-ball bnrfem, have as much “stuff” as LoWdernTltk; btit they can’t put It In their fast one and control the ball. Lack of control has always been Lowdermllk’s chief handicap. No wonder. .Mt the throttle wide open on a curve ball. Johnson, Hendrix and Bush would have ail much trouble as Lowdermilk getting the ball over if they put all steam behind a curve, Omnge of pace is the secret of success in pitching. A" boxman must hurl his curve and slow bail over with the sjune motion that he goes through fiftiging a fast one.” Otherwise the batterg would guess pretty well what was codingLowdermilk has had ah interesting career. Roger Bresnahan fir§l Inijroduced Lowdy to the St. Louis baseball public away back in 1911. Bresnahan had the two Lowdermilk boys— Grover and Louie, who is a left-hander. ; Grover’s wildness prevented 'him from making good with the Cardinals. Rickey gave him a trial with the Browps of 1915. fi J JkSISO ] Rickey found Lowdy a hard man to handle and sold him to the Detroit Tigers. Jennings was hard up for pitchers in the fall of 1915. His team was in the pennant fight,'ahd “E-Yah” figured that Lowdermilk and “Big” Bill James of the Browns would clinch the pennant for Detroit They disappointed Jennings and Lowdermilk was sent back to the bushes in 1916. Last year Grover bobbed up with the Columbus American association team. Joe Tinker knew how to jolly the big boy and obtained maximum efficiency from him. Lowdermilk actually burned up the A. A. ring. He was a sensation from start to finish of the campaign, winning 25 and losing 14. Lowdy walked 138 men and fanned 250. The A. A. hitters couldn’t gauge his curve with a field glass., /.