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Show PITBTOROOKS: SOFT M VETERE-; Old-time Heavers Fatten Their Averages During Last of Season. '. , ! Hl- Tribtirif Kpnri.-il Kpoit Pervicr. ' MJW VORK, Xot. 6. The c.xplana- ' j lion for Hip many low-hit games pltchcl ; ; by veterans in the last month or so of ; I rvi-rv bai-pliall ranipaign ia that they j do most of their performing against j "rookies." j Along about September 10 the man- j i ap;ers of elnbs that are out of the pen- i I nant fights pnll Iheir regulars out of the lineups and give the youngsters a j ehanee to display their wares. Only j ! about one youngsler iu every fifteen ; i measures up to major league standards, and the re?ult is that the opposing vet- : eran pit -hers have a romparatively easy , time of it. Also it will be noticed that during tha I late part of the season the. clubs that ! j remain in the fight for the bunting roll -up huge scores when pitted against the ; . out-of the-raee " clubs. The explaua- r. tion is simple. The pennant contending teams keep their strongest lineup in the : '! field, while the manager of the other team, anxious to try out hip new piteh-I piteh-I ers, pitts them against the flag-chasing ; outfit. Oh, ves, sometimes the veteran elub , strikes a tartar finds itself unable to , hit the straight and curved offerings of' a vonngster. But that, happens only, ', about once in every ten times. i Nervousness Rook's Foe. Nervousness and over-anxiety often 1 send ba-k to the bushes many a youngster young-ster who. under normal circumstances, should make good in the majors. The "rooky" getting his big leagus . chance realizes that from fitteen to (wentv other youngsters are getting a i trial at the same time and that a man- ! ager hasn't much time to devote to ! watching or developing him. , The "rookv, " therefore, tries with 1 his whole heart and soul to show bril- ; liancy in his first few trials. He is fearful that he won't succeed, and tep-riblv tep-riblv anxious to succeed. The. result is that, instead of being cool and calm be is in a wildly excited state. He j foozles drives that would have been easv for him if nervousness hadn't af- j flicted him. He goes up to the bat, and instead of exercising patience and caution cau-tion he tries to "kill" the ball. He goes after nearlv everything pitched in his direction and the result is that ho fans or pushes out a puny grounder or an easy fly. Cobb's Nervousness. Tv Cobb's anxietv to make good near-1 Iv caused him to be sent back to the minors. The wonderful Georgian joined the Tigers back in the fall of 1905. He whs purchased for $700 and came into the big leagues unheralded. True, -he had made a good record in the south 1 ' , ( but his record was not half as wonder- 1 ful as two-thirds of the minor leaguers who get a major league chance eacfc I vear and flivver. Cobb got his tryout in 1B05. He wai over-anxious. He did what the major ity of "rookies" do swung at nearly i everything that came his way. In the field he showed up only ordinarily well. But Tv had the "pep" and be looked promising. The Tiger management de t j eided to give him another chalice in I lflOG, despite tho fact that he had bat- i ' j ted onlv around .'260. In the spring of .HI06 Ty showed up a ; I Iittlo better, .but nervousness and anx' iety were his enemies. He wanted tc hold down a regular job wanted tc I prove that he was a ball player. Ann ' so he, in the early part of tha season . ' performed with only ordinary results ! Just about that time the JJew York Americans and the Tigers were involved in trade negotiations. The Yankee; wanted Cobb and were, willing to giv Delehantv, then in the heydev of hi: career, iii exchange. The Tigers balker they wanted a pitcher in addition-ami addition-ami the ileal fell through. Ty then was told that he had a regu , lav 'job in the Tiger outfield. Righl then' and there he settled down. His nervousness left him, over-anxiety n ! longer afflicted him. He began play in i ball, miworried and unafraid, and hr I has since developed into the most bril ; liant player that baseball has evei j known. |