Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-05-23 | Page 29 | Boland is Sensation of Detroit Pitching Staff

BOLAND IS SENSATION OF DETROIT PITCHING STAFF i. I 7 74 4 4 I C f nI I tl A I Wk J r 4 j t z S I k r S g 2 BOLAND Mich Mich May 22 Bernard Bernard BernardJ 1 D DETROIT J Boland of the Tigers is lj isone one of ot the very few young twirlers of the AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean league who bId bid fair falI to challenge this season the reigning gods of or slab- slab dom dam for tar the fans fans' homage He already has a long line Ine of victories to his credit cred cred- it and rare rarely does doos he permit the opp opposing op- op p posing poing side to get as many as as' a half half- dozen hits in any one game Red McKee recalls Bolands Boland's debut In Inthe Inthe inthe the Central league That was four o r or five years ago Springfield was playIng play play- Ing Dayton Danon and Boland held Springfield fJeld hitless until the ninth when Mckee got the solo sole swat off oft the young oung hurler The Southern association season wound up last year with a R mound duel between Rube Kissinger the tho league grandfather and Boland the kid of ot the I circuit It was a a. two two hit inning extra affair And these are Just samples of ot the wa way Boland has always performed Ever since Ince Leo Lee Fohl now of at the In IndIans Indians In- In diane took him In hand at Dayton and taught him hini a thing or two Boland has always been a tight accurate brainy pitcher who Invariably could be counted upon for a battle He showed his brains and stuff at training camp and occasionally U did some Bome good pitching but it was vas feared that he was not physically strong strong- enough to go the route In the big show But In gam games s. s this year ear he has shown tho the folks that all leagues look alike to him It is ver very possible of ot course that he ma may prove to be a a. flash Inthe in tho the pan but since the fears for him had to Jo do 10 with his physical strength chiefly it looks ver very m much ch as If another another an an- oth other r Dauss were with us