Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 40 | Gameness Required to be Good Heaver

GAMENESS REQUIRED TO BE GOOD HEAVER The difference be'tw-een a successful and an unsuccessful major league pitcher is oftentimes made in a disposition to let down hi the pinches. Larry Cheney, the big tight bander of the Robins, is the authority for that statement, and Larry has' been under the. big tent long enough to know. "Pitchers make their mark m the big league because they refuse to waver in the piiiches. The man who lets down is a gone coon, for it only takes the boys about two games to get on to some of your little weak points. If they know that you'll let down, they'll stand in there and wait for your soft one, and then good "'"Some pitchers arc unlucky. TSTieeaer Dell was one of those fellows. He had a lot of stuff with us. but it never got him anything. He'd pitch the wrong son of ball sometimes just do lt-and so it went Being in the hole doesn't botner me If I l""3 five wUcl Pitches ln a row I'd' take the sixth rather than sena a naked floater up to the plate, '