Show e K yankees not tough to beat J L B RE ne yankees are not so BO tough to beat it if you go right out and x I 1 battle them some clubs and some pitchers curl up roll over J and are beaten before they start when the yankees dash X u upon pon the field but the washington club bothered them last year because we declined X to believe that just because the yanks were champions it was wai in 3 their contracts that they could not be beaten X such was the explanation of garland braxton the slender south southpaw paw e of the washington club a pitcher so slender that his pounds are dla i tributes trl trI buted along a frame of five feet A eleven inches in telling how bow it was the nuts troubled the yankees X so much winning nine games from Y them after a bad start aft X S the nuts were just as easy as I 1 other clubs for or new york in the X A spring but when ben the washington ac pitchers braxton and sam jones in barti particular cular rounded into shape they gave the champions a n lot of A bother A major league benches are too X large Is at another iother of sage 4 X remarks A lot of big lemie league X Y clubs carry pitchers all season who 5 jare are not ready for the big show lk and who might be requiring acquiring real S experience in the minors 5 A the purchase of braxton by the J A new york Yar yankees thees at the close of 1 X the season of 1025 was a blessing for the slender southpaw for it 5 A was at new york that braxton braston j f learned more about the art of mys X X tidying the batters coached by jr herb pennock lc he imitated pen S nocks delivery but where pen neck throws a curve braxton de X chiefly upon his e I 1 X or screw ball garland braxton the screw ball Is bad on the X A pitchers arm says george uhle it never bothered my arm says A braxton land and I 1 have thrown plenty of them in fact once 11 1923 1 have y ariot X not had a sore arm sometimes when new york and washington was A y e calling on me often for relief work my whip was tired T C you yon know added braxton my lack of weight always has causse X managers to figure I 1 was not strong enough at boston I 1 wits was told I 1 wa was A V 8 too light when I 1 joined new york I 1 guess miller huggins felt the X A X same way for lie did not call on me until he threw me into games hea lie at k figured were already lost but he did not consider me strong enough eno i to go the entire route and that ls Is how hov he happened to send me to wash A f ington so he could grab dutch ruether Itu ether 1 yet this pound six footer took part in 59 games tor for Wilis washington hington t MT more than any other american league pitcher in 1028 1928 in three more X games than marberry even mam e I 1 |