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Show JOSS SAYS THERE IS HO BEST PITCHER Who la tha beat pltchert There 1en't any beat pitcher. .1 never have believed la urh a beina aa tha est' and I never shall," says Addle Jose. "From time to time -one man or another will ba hailed aa the kins of them all. and tha fa na will amuse tbemeelvea dlscueelnf the mat-tar. mat-tar. To my mind, the fact that no man'e record Is consistently remarkable for a terra of years precludes the poaalhiiity of pli-ktnc tha leader. One season It may bo Mathewson who appears bast, another Donovan, and so on down tha list. Then, too, these are a lot of snod pitcher with poor cluba who don't have the recorda of some others, yet pJtch Just aa good ball aa the league's lead ine" wlnnera. 'Take Walter Johnson, for tnstance. Put him an tha Chlraao Kaitonal leamw riub. wltb Us fine defensive work, and ha wouldn't Insa flvs samea a araaon. pro-vided pro-vided the -ul ootied ret a couple of runs a fsffl for him. Another fod man with a poor club Is Rucker, the Brooklyn star, one of the best left handera who ever stepped In a pair of shoes. If there ware any su-h thlna aa tha 'trreateat pltrhar,' our own C'y Youna would ha about mm icioaa to tha mark aa anyone. When a man. after pit Hi ine; all these years, ran ao In and ahow the kind of ball that old Oy showed last seenn, lie ta about aa great aa any man In tlie world. "BUI Donovan, when he ta light, la one of the bardent men to beat la the world. In fact, he la almoat Invincible with any kind of support. No pitcher ever gave hia rlub better service than Mullln aava the Itetrolt people n tos. He waa In there pitching winning ball day after dnv, aa staady as a rock against all aorta of htltera." |