Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1919 — CONFIDENCE IS BIG HANDICAP TO EHMKE [ARTICLE]

CONFIDENCE IS BIG HANDICAP TO EHMKE

Detroit Pitcher Is Good and Bound to Improve. Carelessness Has Been Only Drawback to Tiger's Hurling So Far, a Fault He Should Endeavor to Overcome at Once. Few pitchers who have come into the majors in recent years have displayed more natural ability, speed, cbrves and control, than Howard Ehmke. He is a good pitcher now end is bound to Improve, but he has one fault which he should overcome, a tendency to be careless. Confidence in their own abilities has made great ball players out of many who otherwise would have been only ordinary major leaguers. There is probably no greater example of this than the case of Ty Cobb, much of his super-success being attributed to this trait. Ehmke has the same confidenceand deserves credit for it. But he must learn to curb It, to permit it to assert itself at only the proper time and only in the right way. Too much of It often provokes carelessness and that has been the only drawback to Ehmke’s pitching so far. It prevents him from taking the opposing club seriously enough. , . This feature of his play has been fa evidence frequently this season, and it bobbed up again Sunday. He did not seem to exert himself enough at the start of the game, and before he had settled down Washington had scored a run in the first inning. One run Is a lot to give Walter Johnson. After that Ehmke sailed along at top speed, and as long as he was careful and steady the Senators could do nothing with him. He permitted himself to get into tight places in the fifth and again in the ninth. and both times Washington began scoring before he got out of trouble. The Senators’ ninth inning frolic would not have reached those proportions, however, had it not been for Cobb’s letting Rice’s grounder get through him. Rice and two others scoring before the ball was returned.