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Show PITCHERS LIKE MAYS i Wfflt ARE NEVER RELIABLE Case of Jack Chcsbro Cited t ffirHH Excuse Yankee Hurler.' W 'Ifli 19 Some American League Playe-s As K"iiHi sert New York Twlrlor "Beaned" V HH Chapman Intentionally First I''JiH Fatal Accident Lw'mLIh There Is a controversy on In (he ma- B 'H Jor leagues as to tiio exuet position H.' WM Mays holds In connection with thu '-H death of Day Cliapmnii. BL-H Some of the players chilm that Mays BIi ' "bcancd" Chapman Intentionally und H$siilfl that he should he barred from the ma- EwLflfl Jor leagues forever In conscqttchcb o' BSiiH There have been more thnn llfty iHLI years of professional baseball, -and In iHifl nil thnftlmo there has been but this iLifl one accident. Il Time and again major league imts- HiH men have been hit on the head with a sHBiLS pitched hall, but with no ufler effects, LLLLl and time and again players have been H Injured by the BH Dut with nil these accidents, In tha iLiifl fifty years there has been but this ono H For my part, I put tho snd Incident liiifl In the accident column nnd will let it LaLLLl go nt that. I can go even further sLiH than thnt nnd clto nn Instance to jH prove that n spltbntler or an under- H liumled pitcher has never complete H control of the ball, writes Al Spink In IH Chicago H In the year 1001 Jack Chcsbro, H then called the "Iron Man," was about H thu only out-and-out spltball pitcher jH in tho mnjor leagues. lie had n dellr- H v tt. iBBtBhBBBBBBBbI IbBBBBBb -SJHBJBBJJBJB JJJJJjjjT bS H I I BBBmMBv9T -wlnauBBbVW EBBBBa I IwkBBMb1&0 I'liolaCySBlBnBl H I BK7j,PjrUn!2j V' fBBBB Carl May. H cry uioro like that of Mays than any fl oilier pitcher I have ever seen In tho year named tho Now York Yankees and the Hustons were the H runuurs-up In tho American league. That year Chcsbro had reached the -sH zenith of Ids fame. Ho had pitched 'H 5.1 games for tho Yankees nnd won -II of them, the best major league rcc- ord up to that time for two decades. ' w-aH In the fall of 1004 Chcsbro was so- lectcd to pitch for the Yunkecs In n H cnino that wns to dccldo tho chain- H plonslilp of thu American league. In H the ninth inning of that gatno ho was H called on for n supremo effort in the H pitching line, but Instead of respond- ; H Ing, ho made u wild pitch, tho ball H sailing over tho hatsninn's head, glv- Ing tho pennant to Dnston. Cheshro suld nftcrward that tho hall H had simply got away from him und that the wild pitch was an nccldunt H pure nnd nlmple. H Cheshro at this particular time wiu M considered one of the sttecdlcst of pitchers nnd was a master in control M of tho jH |