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Show EPFS IE! SHOWS REVER8AL0F FORM Fhillie Twirler Has Finally Got Started After Many Failures. By Tribune Special Export Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Eppa Jeppa Rlxey lifts come throucli in the hour of his picalest need. After four years of "dubbing1," the spiral southpaw has found himself. Ho has been pitching a brand of baseball all year that has made him one of the most feared pitchers in Johnnv Tenev's bnsehall league. Eppat bet's form rtversal this season has been one of the surprises of baseball base-ball No one figured him In as a real defensive fa e tor in the Phillies' pennant n-rht. Rlxey. from 11112 to litis, had been tiiven many clvanees; nearly always he failed. lie was an unreliable piteber. vuc who seemed lo be noidintr his big kC'ie ioli more because ho was a "pros-jioet "pros-jioet " V.iow been use of real worth. But now :ho spinH flinuer is in the thielteyt part nf the battle for the pitching ehain P ion ship of the National league. Rivey wo'i l'.'t out of his (irst IT. pames, which 's:ivc to him a rmh even higher than that of trover , ': fmder an ae-i'omph.hme.nt ae-i'omph.hme.nt thr.t most f-. '.):' wi'd admit ,is worthv of more than pa mention. And lie's 'A pnhm' stron-,: f:::i perform-in perform-in without any noticeable sinus cf ri-a-kins. "If R:cv ever finds himself h will rank amnn- the preatest piu-hers In banf.-hail." J'at Moran mr-e said. "If-? has a pnweiful arm. a fool bend, bafflin? t'urves and a world of pced. Hut he lacks .-ontrol and Moadin'-ss. If he ever d -r.; then:, wateh li:m." The f-;:s are doim; ii now. Kppa. fV boy, went to t he Thillies a'lt-r trradiiatim: from the I'nier:ity o' Virginia, su! Thai was in the summer r.f if,:-. "-In lhat year he won H out of 20 -nines for tiie Phillies. In Tt13 lie snap"! n primes in 1! trials. Folks bee an to !:"ui-e llien lhat lie had .irrivftd. But F,t-'.i showed to ihem the folly ot t!ie:r r-.-jH-nnint; by hini 11 out of H tr.i mes in l'.'l-". Last season, with a championship champion-ship l iab ln-hind lurn. the best !-Jp coidd do was 11 vi lories in 23 Eturta a -4-3 showing. But this year well, it's a different kind of -uorv the bovs are writing and i ell r,z a !-.oi:t this port -sidpr: oue. that li !'i s hi m o: t of the error t rie el fs a nd rives to him r:iiik;i:; anions the greatest pitrhrrs in the, Cdrne. |