Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-31 | Page 10 | Saints Likely to Get Another Major Flinger

Saints Likely to Get Another Major F linger BOB HARMON. ' - VA '! - v '-'' t X " 1 Kit : , r" V . 1 . if ' V PROSPECTS are rosy for another big league pitcher for the lf17 Saints. The desired Individual is Bob Harmon, famous as a Pittsburg heaver. Manager Bernhard of the local club has been in correspondence with President Barney Bar-ney Dreyfuss of the Pirates and it looks as though things are shaping up for a dicker. The difference between the bidder and the biddee Is now reduced to inconsequential proportions, and it is possible that tiie final word may be passed within a week. Harmon was one of the mainstays of the Pirates for two seasons, sharing honors with Al Mamaux. He is still a good linger, thouyh possibly slowing up a bit for big leasue requirements. Last year he was in thirty games. Based on an allowance of earned runs, Harmon stood thirty. first in the National league's list of first rate pitchers, numbering fifty-nine. He allowed 2.06 runs per nine-inning" game, and ranked ahead of such well-known dingers as Hendrix, Prendergast. Sea-ton. Sea-ton. Carter and Lavender of Chicago, Schneider of Cincinnati. Benton, Tesareau and A mlerson of New York. Do?k. Meadows, Jasper and Steele of St. Louis, Mathewson and Knetzer of Cincinnati, Coombs and Appleton of Brooklyn, and so on down the line. With Harmon and Dubnc as the prospective lenders of the Saint righthanders and all the rest of the likely looking hurlers Bernhard lias collected, the club would bo in excellent shape to tackle any opponent.