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Show ROSY PICKS HIS "MONEY" HURLER Milwaukee Brewer Pitcher Recalls Phil Douglas. Who was the beet "money" pitcher In the last quarter century t Was It Eddie Plank T G rover Cleveland Alexander, Alex-ander, or Herb PennockT If you will permit Rosy Bill Byan, of the Milwaukee Brewers, to decide, It ts neither - of this trio; Rosy's choice Is the almost forgotten Shufniu' Phil Douglas, ten years ago John M'c-0 M'c-0 raw's ace-ln-the-hole. Shufnin' Phil, you may remember, was the bootleggers' best friend while on the pitching staff of the Giants, Gi-ants, and his devotion to the cup that cheers prevented him from hanging op a record that would have put him In baseball's blue book right near the front 1 "I have seen a lot of ball games and a lot of pitchers during my stay In the big leagues but when It came to a tough spot my choice would always be the Shuffler. And Douglas liked to get Into a tight battle In the eighth or ninth. "He bad nerve as cold as an Iceberg. Ice-berg. He might have been dozing In the sun somewhere and when tbey sent him In to relieve be would probably prob-ably ask what Inning It was and how many he had to get out The first two pitches would go whistling at the batter's bat-ter's chin and then Phil would 'come down the middle' with three straight strikes. When he threw at you be wasn't fooling, either. "1 was with the Giants the last few years Douglas was In baseball and his Intemperance became so bad that he would 'hock almost anything be bad to get even the worst kind of drinking poison. His pay checks all went to bis wife and McGraw finally Issued an order that any player that loaned Phil even a dollar would be fined 200 bucks. But out In the center of that diamond, with the game at stake, Shuffltn' Phil was the greatest the game has known." |