Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 147, 3 April 1910 — Page 6

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Fine Players, Fine Fields and Fine Sport for Season of J 910 AMERICAN LEAGUE BRIGHT WITH HOPE Review of the Clubf, in Which the Strong Points of Each Are Brought Out for the "FanV BenefK By John B. Foster. When the sun begins, as Uncle Ephralm Bulty was wont to remark, "to be hlgher'n de iky Jan do Hexbyterlan Chu'ch steeple." there are three subjects which are bound to demand the attention - of American mankind. It is futile to try to .get away from them, and it Is useless. They are , fishing, making garden and baseball, and the greatest of these Is baseball. Don't try to evade the direct accusation and by subterfuge attempt to make people believe that you are not Interested in the national game, but manfully admit that the very first . time the southern breege blew Into your nostrlL the odor of spring you began to think of the chances of the home team in the summer to come, , X am going to pitch headforemost into the subject at once by stating that this will probably be .the greatest and best year that baseball ever has seen. It would be folly to keep away from such a candid statement of the'1910 platform, for sooner or later this would be bound to come to tbe surface. There are reasons, many and potent, why this Is likely to be the ease. Increasing Interest In the game, increases of population and Increase in the number of persons who piay baseball are three of them and they are all good. More could be cited. What's the use? The outcome of the year, barring finan- , cial panto, war or epidemic, will bear out the prediction, and the writer is willing to submit It and take his chances. Up to the XtUUong. Thirty years ago we counted baseball spectators by the hundred. Only a little while before they could be counted by the score. About ten years ago we began to count spectators by the thousand. It has gone to the million mark now. AU records are completely upset, and are likely not only to remain so, but to be worse upset. Millions can be accommodated now, where there was only room for hundreds thirty years ago. That big crowd of 4,000 spectators, which almost startled you out of your boots one Fourth of July morning lust before the "nineties," would be wallowed up in one corner of the stadium which John T. Brush has built in New York city for the comfort of baseball patrons, and that stadium, as big as it is and as comfortable as It Is, ranks by no means as a permanent improvement like the stands In Pittsburg, Chicago and Cleveland, simply because Mr. Brush cannot obtain ownership of the real estate on which It Is located. - - . Only next year Washington will Join tbe list of those "permanently Improved." and the cities in the high grade minor leagues are building stands that the major leagues' couldn't equal two years ago. So much for the probabilities, so far as one side of the game Is concerned. Now for a jump Into the playing end of the American League. It Is only natural at lite beginning of the season to look the ball clubs over and- sea- what they have la the way t players to offer for the campaign about to begin. Looking the Champions Over. First of ail. a brief glimpse at the Detroit club. They won the championship last year for tho third successive tlnu-. A ehib which can do that is worthy of praise. W. .IH.il MftAflVAM .it.- mkllUAP Aril. .i - - any grOUP OX players, lo go inrou?,-n inrw;, uecoV.lv season, and retain the .d-r-X ship of the organisation a to wnicn it u

...,. longs. ji Detroit can be considered on tbe eame basis as It finished the season In 196. As It Is likely to be changed least of any dub , In the American League circuit. It Is difficult to arrive at ony other conclusion. These points must be reckoned with tn Detroit's favor, rtrst. a competent, vivacious, magnetic manager. Hugh Jennings .'1 ', record at tie need of e baseball organlaaUon speaks for, Itself. When a manager vV baa been at'vte guide a team through three seo.iei ;ee eesjeeney and finish first V ,r all at them, k to a force. , f . Dacpas, a s.aaoaol and powerful pitching : Attention te pitchers of she AmeH- ! ....... ...Vj. ,

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MR. HOSSEN HYDE EMERGES

can League is called elsewhere. Results In the season of 1909 speak well for the probability of good work from the pitchers of the champions In the year to come. Third, excellent team work, which Is a natural resultant factor from the association of players with each other, a quality in which Detroit should be strong from the fact previously stated that few changes, if any, are to be made in the champions for the year to come. . Detroit has a well balanced team, inside and out. Jones, Delehanty, Bush and Morlarty are not the best Infieldcrs in the American League individually, but collectively they have accomplished results for Detroit. Cobb, Crawford and Mclntyre are three of the best outfielders in the organization. Mclntyre was not always able to play in 1909 because of lllnesu, but "Davy" Jones proved a capable substitute.' :. If the team has a weakness it is behind the bat, and yet, as matched against other American League clubs, Schmidt and Stanage, who are none too fast, have been weighty factors in the Detroit club's suc cess, if not so much by expert catching, because of. their ability to bat. Beckendorf. a young player who had llttlo oppor. tunity to show what he could do in 1909, is likely to prove a valuable substitute when ever he is needed in the season to come. Studying the Athletics. The Athletics come upon the scene pos sesslng some of the admirable qualities which have been accredited to the Detroit. First of all there is their manager, "Connie" Mack. In many respects the exact antithesis of Jennings, for he is grave when the Detroit manager is gay, sedate when Jennings is frolicsome and demure Identical with those of his contemporary. There Is some quality in this serious, cleri cal looking man which enables him to make some players great when other man - veers have tried to do so and failed. Per-1 haps he puts them on their honor and atj'n a i . IrMAMtlnM n Mad Ar-tk O t-kSkl 1 Tand miESS bimies of players better than they do, develops their art before they nave appreci ated the change which has come over them, Philadelphia, too. has a corps of seasoned pitchers who are likely to be help, ful. The experimental pitchers are Just as much a variable quantity for the Ath letics as they are for any other team.; But the veterans, men like Bender, Plank j and Krause If he may be considered to be,

a veteran will give the team heiptui as-(second Dase and stahl first base. The insistance when the warmest weather; field is not a wonderful infield if it is to comes, and Mack expects better pitching! be reckoned upon for fielding, batting and from Morgan this year than Morgan has; throwing. On the other hand It is an indone since he became a major league field which accomplishes the unexpected

player. Philadelphia's infield is attractive. It's the same as last year. It Is a great infield on the right side of the diamond. Davis and Collins, side by side, are two men fit t vrace anv nine. Barry, at shortstop. and Baker, at third, are two players who were a little awkward and timid at first, but who have put on the "Mack seven league boots" since they have been in Philadelphia. The manager says Barry will be one of the leading shortstops of the country this year, and Baker he expects to be a better player than he was in i9n Th ouartet played together part of the season of last year, and this must be reckoned as in their favor ior tne season to come. Work To Be Done In the Outfield. In the outfield there Is another prob lem. Mack has been vexed by having an outfield which was not wholly stable. Very likely Murphy will be right fielder as he was last year. Hartsel will try hard for the team, for the time has arrived when he must exert himself to hold his own. There are candidates tor left field and candidates for centre field, but it ia by no means certain who will be fortunate enough to hold the position when the season begins. There could be improvement behind the bat without Injuring the chances of the Athletics. None of the players regularly in the position is the fine, clear headed and quick thinking man of the Powers type. Livingston la fair, handicapped by his height, because he ia short, and Thomas can bat fairly well, but Is erratic In his throwing. Yet Mack "will probably have that club, with its weak points known by other man. agers, persistently In the race from the beginning of the season. He will do so because he is patient and confident, and his players seem to absorb something of his spirit, for they will turn the slightest rally to their advantage even though the game Is on the verge of the ninth inning. Boston begins with a new manager. Patrick J. Donovan, who has been with St. Louis, Washington and Brooklyn, will handle the team in the year to come Admittedly Donovan has D roTlrto hoe. He succeeds a manager who. took a lumble of Dlavera and. bv skilful use of - . ... . . -. ml,er ww.nn - uo iisu. or may not nave nau ia .un . baseball instruction, accomplished results; -,wncn were not anticipated when tne aea-,.

. r wnipuseu i f i .. no can circle me, bases with oeieruy. and they are not afraid to take chances, the mors so that they have carefully measured the general ability of a majority of the American Ltague catchers. The star catchers of tha i organisation can be counted without ovar! without over exertion Harry Lord, third ttaew- of am.,

It was their Ped which assletei him. XST Careful observation of the work of thej1 " tefleld Boston t''iyers In the Cities of the year worki TheW( two candidates for first Impressed on strongl: with higher re- and three candidates for snd gard for the frequent demands of base-!ba9e fhe team which may be chosen to ball managers ior speed.. The Bostons start the season may not last the first

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Deience to DCTROIT5 6RT Tears may come and go no real "an" j would stop them and baseball contests i for championships may be history making events in the lives of human workers for decades to come, yet it is doubtful if that pennant shall ever be won in which masterly pitching shall not play its part' in the outcome of a season's work In an organized league.. - No nine can be greater than its batters, but a nine can be greater than its pitchers. Tet a great team In all but pitchers may never meet the fullest anticipations of Us own members. So much for a little baseball philosophy, and-now to the subject of pitchers In the American League. The pitching staff of the Detroit tam i wvu seventy ana lost twenty' six of the games which were played by the champions In 1909. Of the 154 earnest which were scheduled for the season these three players took a prominent part

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J ,ad,vanceVs, t0 their effectiveness! MulHn, With his wide, free swing and exh ii v Which 18 fortunate 'cel,ent arm action, seems not to have exenough to enroll three pitchers who canjhausted his vitality to the extent that the be depended upon to participate in such a I debit side of the ledger will find frequent tremendous propotion of the season's charges against him. His style is good, games, and who are skilful enough to win! his curves quick, sharp and telling. His more than seventy per cent of the contests speed is a known quantity

a player of steady improvement, has been appointed captain for the year to come, Wagner will play shortstop, McConnell joiten. usually when it does so It is at a time in the game when it is especially ad- ; vuntageous. Speaker the Man. The man who made the Boston team in 1909 was Speaker, the outfielder. There stands one of the greatest finds of recent baseball in his particular department of the sport. His addition alone was worth game after game to the Bostons, for It almost invariably follows that whei a natural batter is gathered to a team, who is also an extraordinary fielder, that both on Inside play and defence he will repeatedly strike a telling blow which shall assist his fellow players. Another factor which) is greatly to the advantage of Boston Is that two raw and inexperienced catchers, who were inclined to De eiow and none too accurate, either In h&nrillnc- th hn . j x,i ' kL i i OP ln tnrowln to oases, nave improved so thoroughly that they are much better materiaf for the j vear to coma than (h oor. at year to come than they were at the beginning of the season of 1909. In the pitcher's box Boston must still experiment. The .work of the pitchers, i . . .

MteV thfa vr riThl..;; !cssiui with theCoIumbusTlub foVrnurnwm -Jhl f ' !k ? ,t6r meniber of years, was permitted to go in the win be with the team for the full season ! middle of the season of 1309 and Friel took instead of only part of It, but Boston can ! his place. The new manager will start stand improvement no matter how good; with the team this year, while "Danny" the beginning of the season may be. iShay will be retained by Kansas City, and Chicago obtains a new manager this i "Ducky" Holmes will have charge of the year. Hugh Duffy, who was manager foriPlavers of -be Toledo club. Providence last year in the Ea-ternl.,whlle f01?6.0' the clubs in the organizaTamu a wh ho a m.ngnri.i tlon will start with new material, there

m. r3 V? 5 major league. While Sullivan, who tried! " v um.p his hand as manager ln 1909, resumes the; task of catching, quite content with the hiiih uiiiar wnif-n re iisli i use. as. ihh rri in i : tor. It doesn't seem as If there Is much to be said about the Chicago team. It must be overhauled from top to bottom, and when a team has come to that pass in baseball it is out of the question to ex pect too much of h until a new manager has got new players running in the ri&bt groove. :y. . ' i. ..v...--' First of all. there are sterling pitchers and a sterling catcher to help in the task of renovating the playing outfit. Elsewhere there are changes to be made which would stagger two men of less strength of purpose than Comlskey and Duffy. There Is to be a new first baseman, a new second baseman and a new short'stop. The latter will be Blackburn. Tan- - ... , . 8upef w;il ntav third base Ten aniS caoi - f th t id "of the B ivll . r. n . vu o.uv v. - fortnight. In the outfield It Is even worse. . Dough erty is the only veteran left. Parent may be sent to the outfield. He still bats welL and he is fast and clever in catching fly ball. Chi Chicago seems to be a problem otr which one manager with experience a a one with ka of base baD acumen, are

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Louisville Will Be Hard Pressed to Retain Title

One of the most enjoyable races of the baseball season of 1909 was that of the American Association. It has come to be the custom in this organization to bring forward such contests for a championship pennant that attention is called to the work of the clubs In cities of the major leagues. " While there was perhaps not quite the excitement in 1S00 that attended the race of 1908 there was enough to keep the population of three cities busy. Louisville won the pennant, with Milwaukee second and Minneapolis third, and some of the cities which had shouldered the baseball honors of the organization for a long time dropped back in the rear night. or ine season ox isiw cnanges nave Deen made in two or three of the American Asuiinn rinhi whih a helpf u Those changes' . apW ?o bei m.Vniuriii rw nt v., ramu c managerial end of the game. Of course abundant changes have been made in the players, as is tne rase ln all baseball orsanitations from one season to another. William nvmor who taA Iwon as en wrill Kk o wh.. will - flstatftltr tn

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to try to matcn -corking good" batteries to an infield and an outfield which are still in the rough. And that's about all that one can say about it. Changes In Highlanders. New York will be a reconstructed team, though not to tbe same extent as Chicago, for there is a tittle of the New York team left. Chase and Gardner on one side of the infield are comrades. The- are a fine pair of players. Austin Is likely to make third base again. He is lively, full of steam and the best fielder in the position that the New York team ever had. Foster will probably start the season at short. . He is a splendid little ball player. Whether! be may be able to finish the season so successfully as he begins is another matter, for Foster is not a player of great endurance. Alt in all It looks like an infield! which will balance well with others ln the league. Engle la the only outfielder left from; last season's supply of regulars. Keeler, the greatest outfielder who ever playea for New York, has been released. Demraitt. who played centre field a. greater part of the season of 1909, ha gone to St. Louis. Thus two gaps are to be filled. Hemphill will try hard to be a regular this year; so wilt Cree. ,:One of them is almost certain to be chosen, while there is great hope of a young player who has played, under various uw with minor

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LONG WINTER RETIREMENT.

" ty 7 ATHLETIC ' I Wniott Is a hnnl nainataVtrif? worker? He may not be possessed of the grace oi athletes of more artistic pretension, but he is gritty and forceful, and even when the game is going against him is as confident in his ultimate success as when victory is riding with him on the seat. - Summers is more of the artist. His work has a finesse that is pleasing and attrac tions which need a little reinforcement. Increased patronage made it possible for the owners of the American Association clubs to improve their ground facilities ast season in many cities, and to-day the organization is better oft for accommodations than the National League was twenty years ago. . It has also become possible for the American Association owners to branch out more liberally in securing players, and the standard of their clubs has Improved greatly within the last decade. Judging by the make-up of the teams for the coming season Louisville will have hard work to hold the championship for the second time in succession, while the clubs which finished in the second division in 1909 seem to bo strong enough to make more trouble than they did last year. Of course, it is out of the question to make a very valuable criticism of Players j until they are on the field, but. judging by ?h " .t Utts which bZt T een made and the LUK "U'13 wn-n nave Deen maae ana tne efforts which have been put through to equalize the strength of the organization for the season to come, the contest in the American Association will be another of those close affairs which have been the admiration of the "fans" in all the cities of the important Class A circuit. When teams finish so closely as those of two successive years there is no telling what the outcome will be in the season following. Every manager is confident and every owner is sanguine of good results 1910. leagues. He is Ayres, and be wiU be with New York thi3 summer. 1 The pitchers are problematical. Sometimes they are excellent, but there is not one of them who has shown that he is a pitcher ofenduring quality. Vaughn, who has made quite a minor league record, may forge to the front as the winner for New York. Still, there Is as much specu-j lation over the pitchers for New York as there is over the fielders for Chicajro.

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Behind the bat it would seem that Newltunfty at the end of this year for them York has finally beea assisted by obtain-! to confirm their belief, tag the release of Criger. The team hast Washington has good pitchers who long needed - a catcher of experience..! did little or nothing; In 1999. It has some Kleinow has been with the American, excellent infielders who seemed always

League for a long time, but he has bis , limitations. 4 Cleveland is to be a reconstructed tam

and therefore a guess. James McGulre.'Leaue- 14 bas.an outfield which could

tbe manager, has been credited with ting that he would put Lajoie on first base. Turner on second. Nicholls. whom be ae. cured from Philadelphia, at short, and Bradley at third. It is possible to do so and have an excellent infield. On the other hand he may go back to the old regime, when Stovall played first. Lajoie second, Turner short, and Bradley third. In that arrangement he has - both' Perring- and Nicholls f or first class infield substitutes. In any event, Cleveland should have a fair infield, perhaps a first class infield- The combination which is agreed upon will have much to do with the efficiency of the players. The outfield Is to be bunt over. Blrmlng-

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ONCE AGMIM. AMONG ENTHUSIASTIC TAN&I HELLO , o ! T,T TPT ' 1 jy ' ' tive. His judgment Is good and his stabil ity, when he feels the impulse of his art moving within him. Is durable. That was notably in evidence last season when he Ditched eighteen successive innings in a single contest against Washington and was not scored upon. In these days of kilf ul baseball that Is a record which appeals to the better senses of men. .- There is another pitching staff in the American League which is to be reckoned with as a determining baseball factor. It is that of the Philadelphia club. Three of the pitchers in 1909 won flftyflve games and lost twenty-six. Their defeats exactly equalled those of the Detroit club. Their victories were fifteen fewer. They played in eighty-one games, as against ninety-six for the Detroit trio. Their percentage of victories was sixtyeight, as compared to the seventy-three of the Detroit principals. That shows a Ic&ser effectiveness, and at the same time it proves rhat the Philadelphia pitchers are of a superior order because of their ability to win more than one half of their games, Thse pitchers are Bender, Plank and Kraus-3. . Bender is a pitcher of speed. More than that, with a capable catcher, he Is a pitcher of good judgment, v He seems to work his best wfth that cool and easy style of catcher who knows the batters and assists the pitchers In fooling them. Plank is a left hander who has always ham and Lord may retain their positions, and ; there may be changes which ? shall keep Lord on the bench. The outfield, in any event, is to be reckoned upon as a green combination, which must make its own headway. Behind the bat there Is to be nc change. The catchers are not above the average,' as catchers, although all have theii strong points, and all are fair hitters ln an emergency. In the box Cleveland will have a raft of youngsters to assist the veterans of the staff. It's simply out of the question to try to place the team with so much rebuilding going on.' ' ' Repetition of Oplaloa. Exactly the same thing is to be said of both Washington and St. Louis. Here are two teams which shift managers, so to speak. McAleer, with St. Louis last year, becomes tbe manager of the Washington team, and O'Connor, who was with St. Louis in 1909, is retained as the manager of that club. O'Connor has to build his team from tbe ground. J He has released many of : the veterans. On the Infield changes have been made at second and third base. In the outfield he baa retained Stone of last year. Behind the bat he will depend on the services of Stephens and young players whom he expects to make a formidable showing. . His pitching talent is a mixture of vet L , , vw ui ,.r..ii is one which may be whipped into a powerful machine within a year and which may take two seasons before he will have the wheels regulated to suit him. He has securer1 an outfielder from New York Demmilt and a pitcher Lake from the same club. His trades have been advan tageous and his releases of old players have seemed to be well selected. The task before McAleer at Washing ton is not so much one of securing young players as to obtain results from the players who were the Washington team of 1909 If there were any in that season who felt that the Washington club was not being managed as It should have been to bring forth the best that was in it, perhaps-there will be an opporto blunder at the most critical moments in-a game. It is provided with one of ithe best ' catchers in the American 00 sirengxnenea, ana , wm oe ,utoiuiened. The team played ball in 1999 on some days with so much assurance that it seemed as If neither Detroit, Philadelphia nor : Boston could beat it, and on others as if any team In a Class E league could defeat it. , To correct those faults ts the task before McAleer. w It is quite a different undertaking from that which is before any other manager of the American! League, and it is fair to say that If he! ... 1 . ln MhMlll.ln fas uh,11 I,! BU4V ,U , ..... up m . ,u Washington as he has in every other city in which he has been a baseball factor, , there will be different this year tu the national capital.

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TAKEN HOME TO BE -WORSHIPED AND ' ADMrEED A5 THE AND BEd?T BAIL OP THE YA35j. sierT1cernTi been much of a success. When his record is compiled for all the years in which he has been a player in major leagues, it will be found to compare well with the really excellent left hand pitchers of the came, lie is not of the phenomenal temperament, but a steady, conservative worker who splendidly carries the gage of battle for his team in average games. Krause will be put to the test this year to prove whether he is a steady, substantial asset or a bubble of a single sea son. Both opinions have been expressed as to his ability. Careful observation indicates that he ts more enduring and erratic than some have asserted. - Suppose that the pitching talent Of Bos ton, which finished third in the race last year. Is taken into consideration. Here will be found Cicotte, Wood, and Arellanes with forty victories to their credit and twenty-four defeats. Hall ranks ' a little higher than Arellanes tn percentage but he took part in but ten games, of which he won six. As Arellanes was a principal in twenty-eight games It would seem fairer to bring him into consideration, especially as he Is counted upon as " a winning factor for Boston In 1910. The percentage of victories for the Boston . trio Is less than that of the Philadelphia three. Of course it is much less than that of the Detroit trio. Arellanes. of the three, perhaps, can . stand the most work. This season will tell whether he has profited by his first year In the American League to be a greater success than he was last season. Beyond that It Is impossible to enter . Into any reckoning. He Is not a pitcher who If always sure of himself, but it to a fault which may be overcome. Cicotte was not in the best of condition in the early, part of 1909. If he to able to pitch more games ln 1910. with a proportionate share of success, he will be the winning pitcher for Boston in 1910. Wood, so It Is said, is not possessed of the rugged strength which will make R possible to use him frequently, but on the days when he is at his best his opponents wm find him a difficult pitcher to beat.; Hall is an enigma. He never has been a uniform pitcher. Variations In form are -such that positive reliability cannot be placed on his efforts as It has been on a pitcher of the type of Mullln, Other pitchers of the team are quite wholly uncertain. . and Boston will very likely not hesitate to avail Itself of the services of such young 0 players as appear suitable. ' In the Chicago club are found two known ui.ii.n nt th htshest degree of skill, so far as mere pitching talent goes, who stand . far lower In the percentage column wma some who could be no more effective with , no better support. , . . - So far a Chicago is concerned, or was concerned in WW. it might well be stated that history surely recorded an Instance where pitchers cannot make a club no matter how great their skill. - Smith and Walsh between them pitched sixty-eight games. Mullin and Wlllett be- , tween them pitched the same number' for Detroit. Mullin and Wlllett won fifty-one and Smith and Walsh between them won , forty games. Would Smith and Walsh have done as well had they been members of a team which was as powerful ln all respects as Detroit? An answer In the affirmative would not be out of order, it is possible that they may be a trifle lees . effective, as pitchers, than the Detroit pair, but it seems to be only a trifle. Of the pitchers in the teams which composed the second division last year, there is more to be said individually than col. lectively. They played their part In the games in which they were assigned to .the best of their ability. Take the case of the veteran Young, ot the Cleveland club, as an example. ? Adding to the other wonderful- work which he has done In the box, he won nineteen of thirty-four games. It to true that It was not a record which was the equal of others which he-had made In his career. but it proved that with a team which was inferior he Is still a superior pitcher. Any pitcher who can win more than half of his games Is not average. Joss, on the other hand, won but fourteen of the twenty-seven games tn which he played. This would seem to ho an Indication more of an off year for Joss than tbe result of 111 success with a team not up to the average. As a matter of fact. It probably was an off year for Joss, and so., when the estimates of work by pitchers in 1910 are being made tbe name of Joss must not be omitted as a probable winning factor for his organisation. : In the New York club no pitcher appears to stand forth with the brilliancy of the pitchers ln the Detroit, Philadelphia and Chicago teams. Quinn was the most successful of the year. He won nine games out of the small total of fourteen. Too little work to rank him with the . top notchers. r Waddell and Powell, two sterling pitchers in their time, were buried under, the slow laboring machine of the St. Louis team. Here is an Instance where pitchers are not to be judged by tbe success of their club. St, Louis, early handicapped ; by injury after injury to important play ers, was never to be reckoned upon seriously in baseball results. The pos si bill- -ties in the team, were far greater than the realizations. Where a baseball nine is torn to pieces by accident there to no fair basis on which to compute form. In Washington, on the other hand, is an instance similar to that in Chicago. Washington bas a truly great pitcher to Johnson unless alt signs are misleading. Yet Johnson lost not only one game, but two. and more, because bis good : work was nullified by Incompetent work on the part - of the players who were supporting him. Hence it is but fair to enter Johnson among the probable winning pitchers of the season to come. ; - - . - If age has set its Iron beef too rigorously . upon any one of the pitchers mentioned, ' the season of 1910 will make it manifest.-. for there Is not one of them but was very near the xentth of his ability in. : "; - weeit mikr, Jesus ewes the Katteaal ssrtfele

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