Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 44 | Browns will Try Eleven New Hurlers

ELEVEN ISEW HURLERS Rickey's Scouts Comb Minors Mi-nors for Winning Pitching Pitch-ing Staff for 1916. When jHTinanU arc won the statistical statisti-cal fiend compiles a bundle of figures to Hhow you where tho winning pitching staff aUowed lesti than one run per anio, proving that the artists from tho middle hill were responsible for the Hag. The late AoMio Joss also said Homethii.g about a pitching staff being some 1)0 nor cent ot a ball dub, so li. Wesley Rn-key, who houses a low-standing ball clu, today is starting right at the bottom to gi-t his winner for HHfi, says Sid C. Keener in tho St. Louis Times. liirkey is going out to develop a ' pitching staff that will make a name for itself and will produce the winner at mpurtsman 's park. He has not missed a single spot in the miuor league circuit. cir-cuit. He has purchased phonotns and more phenoms and offers this list: . Name, Place. I.angdon University of Pittsburg loff . . . : ' Rochester ' Riley Wichita Southern Wichita Parks Lexington, Ky. Sims Charleston, W. Va. l-'imhcr Little Rock Bast Little Rock McCabe Decatur KJrutayor Decatur Tillman ...New Bedford, Mubs. Count 'em thnre wo have cloven flingore who will report at Grand avenue ave-nue for the 10 Hi prospects. Branch announces that a dozen or more may arrive before the close of the season, and with this crop of rurvers he expect ex-pect s to erect a flinging staff that will rank socond to none in bal7doin. Phenoms Very Rare. It's a difficult task. Branch! How manv sfars are plucked from tho minors min-ors in a single season? An Alexander is not discovered often. Tli Cards were mighty fortunate in lining up Loc Meadows. The Pirates found a winner in Albert Leon Matnaux, so Branch should be satisfied if he can dovelop one Weilman out of his col- lection. Nice things aro said about ''Lefty'" Hoff, who appeared on the hill at Sportsman ?s park recently. He hails from the Rochester (International leagno") club, and ie picked to be a second sec-ond edition of "Baby" Ruth of tho Red Sox. Another good looker iB Peto Riley of Wichita. Peto has hurled but six games, and "he has a 1000 percentage. percent-age. Charley Barrett saw Pete win two eames in the Western league and decided that he would become another Ed. Walsh or Jack Coombs. Colonel Hedges is responsible for the pair from Little Rock. They are Fin-chor Fin-chor and East- With a second division club they have won more than half of their games. Of course, thev do not blossom into stars in a single pmne, Vut Branch declares he is going go-ing to start right at the bottom in this process of building a penuajit contender con-tender for St. LonVs. But Is It Pitching? All along this year we have been told by those on tho inside that pitching: pitch-ing: is responsible for the downfall of the Browns. But listen to this: The Browns scored five runs on 21 hits in two (?araes. The White Sox scored 13 runs on 13 hits in two games. Tliero we find that the Browns had eight more blows than tho enemy, Btill thev wero eight behind in the run column. col-umn. In the first place the box score shows this: Sixteen hits and four runs for the Browns and seven hits and eight runs for the White Sox. You wouldn't call this weak pitching, would yon ? Something wrong some place and not from the hiS, either. Tho fielding was miserable, espe-eiUly espe-eiUly by Jimmy Austin. Jeems has a world of pep, full of conversation, but he's also full of boots and miscues. He fnve Hamilton a handicap of two runs y missing a throw at third base, and iii the first game he had a White Sox entering his field only to miss the throw and later the visitors counted three off Wailnian. A fan in the second deck of the grandstand dropped this remark recently: re-cently: "There s one star on the team! He is George Sisler. " The fan hit the mark. This Sis boy is the fanciest looking athlete on the diamond. dia-mond. He's a kid, just breaking in, and naturally he must deliver to hold his job, while Fratt, Walker, Shotton, Austin and othe3 have been around here for several summers. Just the same, Sisler looks as if he has arrived. He isn't exactly a rival for Ty Co.bb. but he has the hustle about "him that will improve his fielding field-ing around first and Improve his sticking