Show FOURTEEN FOURTE EN YEARS OF BIG LEAGUE SERVICE red ames still good enough to hold his meal ticket player who won fame as Pitcher Pitchers for new york giants Is depended upon to do his share of work for st louis cardinals with fourteen years of major league pitching behind him old leon cited I red ted ames who won most of his fame ns as a pitcher tor for the giants la Is still good enough to hold a meal ticket in the big show As a member ot of the st louis cardinals where he was sent in a trade in 1915 ames Is depended upon to to do a share ot of the pitching and with good support he generally gives all comers a battle last season when the cards began to look up and play some real baseball for miller huggins ames worked in a total of 43 games and won 15 lie ile was credited with ten losses this season the redheaded red headed showed surprisingly good early season form and in a game at pittsburgh may 2 he held the pirates to two hits bits both of which were registered against him in the first inning and netted bezdekk Bez deks boys the lone run that won the game that was something of a heartbreaker heart breaker for a veteran like ames to pitch a two hit bit game and lose it one of the secrets of ames success as a pitcher lies in the tact fact that he t leon ames knows how to pitch lie ile cut loaff 9 too early in the season and he saves his arm whenever he be can pitching with ones noodle as well as with the arm aria Is a secret that ames learned long ago ames broke into the big show at the fag end of the 1903 season but did not really get his first tryout until the next season when he took part in 16 games the next nest year he ha was ready for all the work mcgraw could give him and succeeded in winning 22 games and losing but eight that was his biggest winning year although he always worked in many games and tor for a number of years ranked ns as the best pitcher in either league to go in and finish a game that was in danger |