Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — FOURTEEN YEARS OF BIG LEAGUE SERVICE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOURTEEN YEARS OF BIG LEAGUE SERVICE

“Red” Ames Still Good Enough to Hold His Meal Ticket. Player Who Won Fame as Pltchei*for New . York Giants la Depended Upon to Do His Share of Work for St Louis Cardinals. With fourteen years of major league pitching behind him, old Leon (“Red”) Ames, who won most of his fame as a pitcher for the Giants, is still good enough to hold a meal ticket in the big show. As a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, where he was sent in a trade in 1915, Ames is depended upon to do a share of the pitching, and, with good support, he generally gives all comers a battle. : ?

Last season, when the Cards began to look up and play some real baseball for Milter Huggins, Ames worked In a total of 43 games and won 151 He was credited with ten losses. This season the red-headed flinger showed surprisingly good early season form, and in a game at Pittsburgh, May 2, he held the Pirates to two hits, both of which were registered against him in the first inning an<Tnetted Bezdek’s boys the lone run that won the game. That was something of a heart-breaker for a veteran like Ames—to pitch a two-hlt game and lose it One of the secrets of Ames’ success as a pitcher lies in the fact that he

knows how to pitch. He doesn’t cut loose too early in the season, and he saves his arm whenever he can. Pitching with one’s noodle as well as with the arm is a secret that Ames learned long ago. Ames broke into the big show at the fag end of the 1903 season, but did not really get his first tryout until the. next season, when he took part in 16 games. The next year he was ready for all the work McGraw could give him and succeeded in winning 22 games and losing but eight. That was his biggest winning year, although he always 'worked in many games and for a number of years ranked as the best pitcher in either league to go in and finish a game that was in danger.

Leon Ames.