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Show EDDIE PLANK WON'T GIVE UP TIE SHIP j I Veteran Southpaw Insists He Is Still Good for Many Years. Eddie Plank refuses to be counted out. He scoffs at the idea that he won't amount to much this season, and confounds con-founds his critics by the assertion that he expects to keep ou pitching in the majors until he is 45 years old. According Accord-ing to all that dope, the hero of Gettysburg Gettys-burg will stick around another five years. In a garrulous moment the other day he consented to talk about himself. Hero is what he had to say: "I've never had a sore arm, and when I quit the game it ?'ill be because I'm tired of it." I'm 40 now, but I'm going to stick in the big luagttes for five more years. At 45, then, 1 think I'll be prepared pre-pared to stay at home. "Pitching is a job. Jt must he studied by the pitcher. He must study the othor fellow, the batter, and then give htm what he knows he cannot hit. That's the way I've pitched for !; years. The fellow with the fast ball will last longer than the one with the curve. L Ml pitch five fast ones to a single curve or slow ball. But the winning j pitcher must mix 'em to the batter. Control is the biggest point. If you can put it where you want, then you'll win more games than you lose. "I believe control just was natural with me. If you keep the ball away from the 'groove of the sluggers you'll win. 'Benny' Kauff got one real hit off mo last season, it was a drive over the right field fence in tSt. Louis. He had me three and two and my foot slipped just as I shot the ball. It went outside, and he met it. "You can't fool 'Ty' Cobb. He'll hit anything. Against 'Ty' I just try to get him off his stride and trust to luck of my infieblers. Sluggers like Craw; fori f, Sneaker and Jackson are easier tn feel than ' Ty, ' because they swinir a heavy bat and. hold it on the handle. 'Tv' uses a light one, and he swings it like a toothpick. "I never try for a strikeout record. You won't Inst long if you attempt to fan every fellow who coms up there. I know that 1 have eight other follows on llic field with me. Tn spring training train-ing T take my time. Never a curve until after the first week, and then T start my speed, gradually. I believe this system sys-tem has kent my arm in shape for 15 long years." |