Show Connie Mack Picks Waddell and f. f J Bender Greatest of All Box Boxi Philadelphia Pa Jan Jami 25 Connie Connle Connie Mack ck says Hubo Waddell is II lIe yie greatest greatest great great- est seasoned Sel b baseball pitcher he ho hn has I ever seen Rn and Chief Bender Dender stIll great I In the time i ring With the time Athletics la Js tho grea cutest gm-cutest short series hurler he has ever seen In Inaction action Possibly I know Rube Waddell better better bet bet- ter tr than an anybody bod said Connie Ho lie wims u tl pitcher eVer inch You did not need much munch of oC a n team behind him l Ho could not think lIko hIko BendoT Bendor but for tor common pure purt pitching I 1 would pick Waddell while for masterful pitching Bender Is my choice Bender Bendor show showed I i ime me tho the greatest pitching I ever eyer saw I against the Giants It was 38 perfect b ball ll thrown Waddell In hi 1304 10 tanned funned mon men In innIngs He Ie got goot IG 16 against New Nei York 1 12 o. o against Detroit De 10 alt troit 11 against Chicago 14 U against Cleveland and 13 IS against Washington Witch When hen 1 am picking them tho they aro are from Crom what I have seen In tho the worlds world's I 1 have havo seen acon the tho best beat the Giants and the Cubs had I know v little about Ih I 4 h In h em i n l u league g I say th this s out t of fairness to tho tutu other othor league I 1 remember Amos Amon Rusle n ho was wa-l a IL L speed speech marvel Well Vell no pitcher r who lives or e ever er r lived d could coul get got through all any big l- l IC league on Just speed Cobb Baker Collins Murphy Speaker Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son cion LaJoIe Wallace and anti a n dozen others would murder that kind of pitching There Is no rio t way of ot telling l' l bv by bythe tho the Ct eye oye which pitcher had tho tIme greatest juice Johnson Is a bigger man e every en n na a way waIt than Ii Ha HIl has hus beaten tho the best Oest teams In lit the tiie world when Washington Wash Wash- ington on only hail had a fair fall team behind him to field and ani hat out tIme theo vIctor victory Sinco Griffith has haa turned out that good ball bail t team earn Johnson h has s ben bEen almost unbeatable unbeatable unbeatable un un- un- un beatable In the American league Ed ge Walsh or of the White so Sox Sex and antI Russell Ford of or t the e Highlanders are arc two wonderful s Js und and the they use liMe the most of or the time SpeakIng SpeakIng Speaking Speak Speak- ing of ot spitball ers for tor the more mCIe nuH r of or honks on j tho time ball bali C Cy Morgan had hind a seat WA I front but he ho lacked lacket control A pitchers the bes best game has ev ever r seen and ho he Is la Wo wo 0 lor br going back game after game heating beating tho the best hest teams in the Acan Am A can cami league 1 remember one day vr iv with three on the bases and none nonal he fanned Baker Collins and Mel l MelI T I dont don't know of nn any other pitcher could cOUll have e done dono that trick Christy ChrIst Mathewson of or the Iho Giant Gianti h been cn a great pitcher for a good I years cars 1 X would say flay that he lie ia Is a athe ai am the b best st four that the tho game li has has' seen but remember too ho lie has an aL 1 had hat a a. pretty good ball club b bee C him Put Pitt Jack Powell up tip there w goo good team and amid that bo boy would shaved off ott a n. record that would be beto beto beto to beat I am coming down to to c hut but I 1 am tm m not going to pick the pitcher A lot of ot fellows nt never ver h championship team behind them to toJ them along and while they pitched 1 ter hall ball than some Iome of or the more ra rathey far they did not flot show Rho Rhon In n the figures j Chief Bender Dender is b the best short a 8 BH pitcher in time thu w He n proved U t. Ume Ga me roe when wl with h Ja Jack Coombs hurt hurt- b by the iho way Coombs 1 showed the worlds world's series Bender Bender best stuff I J have ever seen Be Bel throws throw a 0 ball that goes R as fast tad a ad as thing timing that Walter Johnson Amoe Amos B JEli or army any of ot the rest reit of oC them over ever to toJ Ask Harry Harr Davis h or T Ty Cobb Cobb th th tell you Bender coul could not throw a e ev ball lute like futile and Johnson could he lie can ean throw twenty In in a a. game gamet t you ou can hardly tee see ee Waddell ha had tr O every curve CUT that thrown but Den Bender er knows how j ja t ta to toa b batter tt r a curve Once he hmo faces tace a batter J knows next time what to do He teds quicker what ii 1 baUer batter can cannot hit nil He can In lay Ine o ball i ithe i ithe the tho plate almost to the tho inch when h ho Ito is right Condition Condition- Cobb as men on time the bases with Ben Bender er but h ho c cannot the n number r and a. a tu |