Show lEFTY WilLIAMS DEFENDS SOUTH SOUTHPAW PA PAW HE WRITES MAGAZINE YARN t White Sox and Bee Bee B e S Says ys H Have ve Been Wronged by Antics of Old Timers WILLIAMS WILLIAMS WIL- WIL LEFTY LAUDE C. C CLAUDE LIAMS formerly sensational t twirler for the Salt Lake club in inthe inthe th the Coast league but now star southpaw pitcher with the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago White Sox Is breaking Into fame In other fields than the diamond Lefty has taken a literary turn and is now an honest goodness magazine writer His Initial effort appears In the Baseball Magazine for February Subject The Advantages of ot Being a Port I He starts out by acclaiming that left handers handels are nuts in the eyes of ot the ball ban I pla player er This he says because their heads were ere ThIS fu full full 1 of ot bug ideas idea instead of brains and because they indulged in a lot lotof lotof of foot antics on the diamond and elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where the failings fallings of ot which have come cometo cometo cometo He HeIs Heis Heis to be applied to the entire class is here referring to Rube who he says got all aU the tribe of port alders bequeathed this undeserved epithet Claude admits that in his sand lot days he lie was an rely sorrowful youth be because because be- be cause he found out he could never play third base shortstop or second but this I IsO sO sorrow has a. a turned rne to o Joy sine since th that iI day I S Claude d h has the following IO maxims which he gives Left han Left larders ers are nuts In teh eyes of or orthe the ball player On the diamond left-handedness left a handicap at certain positions is a decided ed advantage at others I For some reason a L left-hander left tin throwing owing for distance visually curves the ball at a tremendous angle I Two persons out of a L hundred are left handed a But at least e 20 per cent of i major jo league ue pitchers ft r are 21 left ff a d A left handed pitcher has ten times the chance of making good that his right hand rival riyal enjoys If u there is any substance to the th theory of of ofa a port alders wildness Sallee should be wild On the contrary Sallee probably probably probably ably has the best control of ot any pitcher In either league Whenever I face a batter I have one definite thing In mind mind mind-I I want to get the batter In the hole When I have one or better still two strikes on a batter I can safely proceed to work worle him He lIe says he wants another try at the k worlds world's series game Iame and declares that against Baker Balser at the Polo grounds he leVer ve pitches a ball ban on the Inside where he he he can pull it Into left field Offhand you would say that left- left handed pitchers would bother Babe Ruth and they do But he he- can hit home runs off left-handers left Just the same We W had hada a sv Consultation of war over Ruth this summer We noticed or we did that Ruth Rut h 1 lifted if t tand ed the ball ban when he hit it and therefore must thrive on low balls With this Information one of our twirlers decided he be would feed Ruth a nice ball high on the outside where he couldn't couldn possibly lift It Ruth met th the e ball fairly bleachers and drove into o left and drove it Into our r left field bleachers |