Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 12 | Dubuc Pitching Find of Season

DUBUC PITCHING H FIND OF SEASON Wild Bill Donovan Cured the Tiger of His Wildness Tho The Giants may have their Tesreau the tho Cubs their Lavender the Hilltops their McConnell the tho Dodgers ers their Allen Al Allen Al- Al len the tho Browns Drowns their Baumgardner and so BO forth but the tho real find of ot the tho season is possessed by tho Tigers In Jean Jenn Dubuc the sensational young young- ster While with the tho Montreal 1 club of ot the tho International league last year car which finished in the tho second division ho he had hada a record of ot twenty one victories and eleven cleven defeats for a percentage of ot Although his team had n a rather poor season he was Its winning pitcher and I managed ed to rank seventh In the tho list of I Ithe the tho en entire tire league ngue Manager cr Jennings s paid paM special special cial attention to Dubuc when his club trained In the south last spring He lie delegated Wild Ud Bill DIll Donovan to coach the tho youngster In n the ways was of the tho big big- league pitchers Dubucs Dubuc's chief fault was wag a tendency to uncork a n wild pitch every now and then and to give he bases on balls to an any batter who had the patience to wait walt him out It lt Is a n legend of the gamo game that when Donovan himself broke into high hOgh baseball baseball baseball base base- ball society he was wasas as as wild as the tho man who came camo from Borneo Ho lie and con- con Irol hol were bad friends and It took tool a few seasons before beCore he lie was tamed Like Marquard after Donovan obtained obtained obtained ob ob- mastery over the ball and could out nut It where he ho wanted to control was ono one of at his chief chic stocks In trade and this asset Is 15 largely the reason why he has stayed BO so long in the big leagues When Jennings told Donovan that his pitching staff was wa fast tast crumbling to pieces and that ho he was anxious to bolster bol bol- bog ster It Bill BIB was tickled to be bo able to cure curA Dubuc of ot the tho same faults that t caused him In his early lays days to be nicknamed Wild lid which will cling clinK to him as long as as ho Is If Identified with baseball and probably as long as he lives for tor that matter Result of ot Donovans Donovan's coaching of ot Dubuc Dubuc Du Du- buc hue The latter Is 1 now the possessor of ot mole more than the usual amount of c n- n and ho he has a good chango change of at p pace ace ce and a large e assortment of curves curves Hohas Holias Ho has lias done so well that he Is now the tho Tigers' Tigers star pitcher Dubuc has h had ll previous pre experience in inthe inthe th the majors maJorR but last long lone because because be- be cause causo of his extreme wildness This season three other promising International International league ue pitchers a Invaded 1 d tho big big- leagues along with Dubuc They are McConnell cConnell of the Hilltops J Lavender a of ot the Cubs and Tesreau of or the Giants