Show I Favors Letting Pitchers Use All They IT Have 1 H R R. WA BRATZ M I VI Sport Editor a VJ- VJ y S r. r L. L T Telegram ram Dear SirI Sir I cant can't resist the temptation to write you in regard to a a. question that is taking up more or less lesa space in the papers at this time I have l i. i read leading vuu 4 any sport HW v number I. I b writers 4 of or vii on articles u n v how and Ill by I why wily the I. I vuu 4 HW v b 4 vii on u n v how and Ill why wily the he effectiveness of pitchers should or should not be reduced Now I have what I think is ill a very conVincing convincing con- con argument in favor tavor of allowing allowIng allow allow- ing the pitchers to use all the tricks they k know 1 i hay have p put In a great Y Jn gp r i up many y years s i-s pl playing g and umpiring baseball and I 1 cant can't remember the time when the people who furnished the money to run ball clubs were in the game gam for their health alone atone That takes us down to the fans tans and they sure dont don't want the game any different from what it is now You can an stand at the park gate any day when the fans come pouring out and ask them one by one how the game was If the score was 17 to toI I 5 they will ill tell you rotten even if the home club wins and the game was full of fielding features with two or three home homo runs T f Then rhen n th the next day they turn in one of oc those pitchers' pitchers battles and the score is Z 2 to 0 and the fans tans to a man are raving about what a ft of a a. game it was And they dont don't forget it f fg ei eia for some time e And if some one got gota a two or three bagger they will not forget to say so Its It's 20 to 1 that they cant can't think of one play that stuck out in that to 17 to 5 5 game But if ft there is js one that sticks stich put out in the to 2 I game garne arne they can cap tell teU you about it for a a. week Now to clinch my argument the majority of the fans tans always like to see eee the home club win but when a a. 3 a game to 1 is and going o the visiting along l with clubs club's mb the pitcher Ig score 1 starts to b blow just as soon as t they rth w o th get three e or four our hits off him you will hear them yell Take him out That looks to me as though they wanted small scores and tight games And we all know that when a a. game is Ia that W way y we just cant can't help yellIng yelling yell yell- ing lag when one one of ot the boys pulls a a. classy play Baseball has become the great American sport but 20 to- to 4 games never did it and I 1 am sure that the game I is right now where it will hold its own forever But dont don't let them take anything away from the pitchers as they have a pretty tough uh time trying to stay u up there neg nd now a and of the hundreds s who go up each year but f few w make good the first trip In edal all my ny Ke experience f IT C I never e Pi pitched to to toone one hitter i in my y life ife and andI I had no mercy on good pitchers when I could hit them So that's not the reason for this this Give us good pitching and lots of those one hour and fifty minute games s so we can get some dinner and read the paper before bedtime and you will keep the old turnstiles clicking ing at a great rate Yours oura for good pitching E B B. B NIBS B ARDSLEY |