Show A TH OF STARS LOST f r BY COLOR TO TO DIAMOND l Negro and Da Dark k Cuban Pit Pitchers Pitchers' hers hers' Have Arms H of Surpassing Su p Power and Cunning f around major league baseball has barred b d HE color linc Ine drawn so o tightly THE from major league fields three of lie Hie greatest g pitchers the game ever has produced One Oue of the thc trio John Donaldson pitching pitch semipro ball in ill Kansas City tit hit JuL run a run a record without allowing a or innings recently pitch pitched cd thirty without parallel hull hniT u u he If lf Donaldson Do ald on were ere ere a white man juan or or orif if it the unwritten law of or ba baseball didn't bar bal nc negroes roes from the major Ie leagues sue 1 I Would give iV for him him and and think said saM John ll loX was a bargain of ot the tho Giants after seeing E Don- Don r ldson pitch se several crl games In Cuba Donaldson Just before establishing his ill record of oC thirty j Innings without being hit struck out twenty twenty- e 1 five men Inta twelve Inning game game On an average e of or better than two strikeouts per pct Donaldson Just no now no Is twirling for tho Nationals all a n Kansas s City teRm team composed of oC players of all nU nations nation and an an art outfit that ba baseball sharps sharp claim lahn is ron enough to give ghe an any major majo league ue club a nip and tuck battle b y c c K Is an another ther ne negro ne- ne FRANK F L gro gre pitcher who would rank with tho the Walter Johnsons Joe Woods and nd Gro Groc c Alexanders If It he were a a. white whito- man WicKware i Kware performed some Mme mar mar- pitching feats eats in and around N. N Y and and liaR has since since- x moved on to Chicago where he ha hai become a t s sensation amon among th the semi semi- pros Wickware has marvelous speed a weird set set of ot curves s and wonderful control Arid And he ho has a a. trick that has made mad him feared nm among n batters Ho throws what hat seems to be a R bean ball but his control Is so perfect that he h never yet ct has hit a batter In the head But when n the batters see see the han ball propelled propelled pro pro- with mighty force Coree come eom pro I for tor their theEr h heads ds they tJ e Jump J away and away and the I h p u Dall taKing taxing its lIS proper ann ana W II cun curve arc arches H Hs s over the plate plato for tor a as strike s has compiled a wonderful strikeout ae average ag He figured in about thirty games over a stretch of ot three years from rom 1912 1912 and and struck out something something some some- thing thing- thin like 11 e batsmen batsmen batsmen-an an average e of or Rb about ut 8 3 1 3 to a a game Jame In one game ho fanned fifteen m mOn men n. n He Be has al allowed allowed al- al lowed on cin an average of oC only five hits to toa ton toa a n a game game for the last last twenty games pitched and over a stretch of at fifteen ho ho allowed only six twenty runs two yo runs to a a. a game ame Cuba In-Cuba- there IM If lm Ifa a negro pitcher by bythe bythe the name of ot Mendez Hes He's l known as The Black Matty and his work vork has been almost ilm st as brilliant as as' as that of ot The Six of ot the Giants Giants' Mended lendeL Is 18 OrI only o of medium h hel height ht but he has hai terrific power in his arm The Tho Cuban negro has a canny cann brainand brain brainand brainand and he Ire Iwa s has used it He has hl his fast ball with J his ls slow one I has an a assortment o of J Beautiful curves curves curves' and perfect control Pitching for tor forthe th the speedy speed Almendares team he has he established s some orno amazing ITI ing Irig records s. s But nut he lie has done so with without out nut really tr Like Lika Mathewson he hI IH ue never n. n m LI n UI u i n has ima to to He conserves his strength But nut when ho he ne needs s to 10 pitch hitless ball ban h he does loes It When rhen he needs to strike out outa a n man he he- heu u usually All succeeds But Dul lie he al always ni- ni that he has ha ha w ways s 5 works work on the theory eight m men n to aid him In the tIle defensive c work work 1 |