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Show TY COBB RATES JAMES BAGBY AS " SMARTEST PITCHER IN BASEBALL JjUrnitiotviPV ,. - , . ?' (rt? && afflfflKt ntoi " ?& v WmW' Who would y.,ti naino 8 ,m t u,0 smartest pitchers ever In baseball? Illght otThand you would say Christy Mathewson, would you not? ln the opinion of Ty Cobb, Jim Ilagliy of tho world's champion Indians Is entitled to the honor. This Is what IV has to fay about the Cleveland llluger, who won 31 games Inst year: "Hagby Is the smartest pitcher I ever faced, and I'll tell you why. Ilo husn't n very gojd fast hall nor '11 very good cune. Ho has a pretty good slow hull, with almost perfect control. Unghy knows be hoxn't enough natural ability to fool hatters, so ho makes n study of them. He knows the strong and weak iwlnts of every batter who faces him, and ho pitches to their weak points. If a but- TV Cobtl ler Is weak on u low curve, that Is all he will get from Rugby. If tho Mime hatter should get it hit off a low curve, It does not make any difference to Ilngby, nor dots he change his tactics. He knows In the. long run hy pitching low curves to this bntter the percentage percent-age Is alt In his favor, and thnt Is nil he will pitch. Nothing will swerve him from his course. "They'll get a lot of hits off Ragby, but he wins because he ls pitching percentage baseball pitching to 'he weak points of ench bitter and not iho strong points. He has jierfect contvol of what stuff he does command and win put It any place lie wants to. "Rngby Is an Instnnce of what con. centrntlon and practice will do for a pitcher." |