Show i MATTYS MATTY'S 9 COLUMN i Sport Comment and Views J JI Ji I 1 i By CHRISTY MATHEWSON tho the New York Giants Giant Famous Pitcher j I Copyright 1915 b by tho the Wheeler Syndicate Inc Ine Matty Mat Defends Slim Sallee Tho The St. St Louis Louls club Is talking bIkinI of ot releasing Slim Sallee and all nil the theother other teams In th the tho National league have said they dont don't care and furthermore further further- furthermore more th they dont don't want to give him a a- a Job Slim says sas he Is not worried Tf I but willing willing to go to th the American Ame league and guarantee Tic ne will win half hair n of ot his Ills games game for tor an any club that hires him which Is fair enough What hat Is more he Is ft liable to do It Slim has a 1 theory of ot his hla own i iI I Ive lve watched these American JC leaguers guen says sas Sallee and I would Just i Jlko to get a chanco chance to work on their circuit Most Mout of ot them Ulem are arc first hall hal i hitters and that Is my dish Inthe the National they make you Pitch your you r I arm out with managers like McGraw and Stallings and Herzog telling their thelt batters to watt walt a a. guy uy out Give me a a. first ball hitter and 1 l Ill I'll 11 ll make him look had bad us a rule It tn So in a good theory or of SlIms Slim s but I l' l dont don't think It would work out especially when he faces ac s some Rome American n le leaguers like Cobb Collins and Jackson However I would not be surprised If It Sallee could go over o Into that hat league and noel show how something for or a club It has hits been done before H Hhas Hohas Ho Hohas o has one of or the best I have ever er seen een used b by a left letl hander with i the he he exception of ot Eddie Plank and he has a very deceptive motion In delivering th the ball which requires a whole lot of study stull As AIS long IonS as ns Slim can keep the bases bues clear he Is ill all right but when he has to cut down his motion to hold up tip runners It cuts Into his effectiveness oness The Thc way to beat beatI him in la b by getting men on tho the sacks However If It f I 1 were were an American le league Sue I manager I would take a chanco chance on Slim He should help a weak staff and ind good left leet handers arc aN S scarce I There Is an nn old stor story about Sallee and Josh Devote Devore Josh Josh was I never any too suon strong against a 0 southpaw but for tor a lon long limo he looked extremely rotten against a crossfire such as Plank and Sallee could dish out McGraw got sore one ono day when Slim Slim was working against us and I bawled Devore outGo outGo out I. I Go up to the plate he ordered Josh and get Jet hit with a fast tast ball I want to show w you Bailee Sallee hasn't speed enough to hurt you ou If It you ou dont don't get hit you'll be fined tined Devote Devore evidently preferred pre to take one one In some soft spot of ot his anatomy to permitting Mac to ral raise e any welts on his bank roll ron with a afine afine fine tint so h he ho got hit When hen he came back to the bench he was pleased to toI death I x took one o of his fast Cast ones declared d Josh and It didn't even cven tickle me me After Ate that Dex De court could bat stuff stutt He know Slim would not hurt him I If he did dM hit him home Chancre W Works Wonders Frequently when a 0 pitcher or a batter changes from Crom one major league to the other he takes tokea a new lease on life Ute mainly because tho they are not used d to him In his new sphere of activity Old C Cy Cy Young did this twice When he went to tho the American ho developed a 3 curve ball ln having depended largely on on s 's speed ed In his earliest days In the worlds world's series of ot 1903 Fred Clarke was surprised to find Cy curving them After Arter finishing with Cleveland Cy Cr spent a short time with tho the Boston Nationals and turned In several victories Dick hit In the neighborhood of oC In the National league Just before he ho quit us us but he ho went over o to the American with the Boston Red Sox Sax and showed over o The Tho shift naturally fills tills a player with new ambition He In is eager to make good Just to show how his old employers that they thoy were wrong when they let go o of ot him I believe Sauce Sallee has some good American league baseball In him yet which Is no reflection re on the American lague logue He would probably take better r care of ot himself and try harder Perhaps I I. I too will take my shy at the Amerl American n league one of oC these days das I did not come como so 80 far tar from It recently at that that only only a certain deal for Cor the New hew York Yankees fell Cell down With much Interest I have followed the reports from rom tho the White Sox training camp to see ee what Eddie Collins has been be 1 doln doing and all he has done so 80 far Car is IA to tear the tho cover off ott the ball ban What Is more moie lie he seems Meems to have o put the hitting spirit into his teammates and an anat at the tho present rate the Sox wont won't be bo known as the Hitless Wonders next season If Rowlands Rowland's club will wUl continue to pound the ball throughout the race raco as alt the thc they havo done on the training trip with tho the pitching J staff tho they thoy have those them Sox will be he trouble makers I look to see FCO them upset a good man many things s in tho the Amen Ameri c can n league legue anyway When Whon Eddie Collins went to tho the White Sox I heard a n lot o of wise baseball followers say that Mr Comiskey had made a mistake One On man man the they d declared wont ont do o a n team any good an any more than a single le swallow makes a n summer But how Evers Stalling Stallings s did lId not predict ho would win th the pennant with his Boston Braves until he had obtained J Evers E Johnny filled d. In Just the hole which needed filling tillinG badly l and th the Boston club looked n a good deal worse one year r Co ago ngo than the Sox do toda today Yet It Iton won on the he worlds world's championship It Jt seems to me that Collins was Wa Just the tho mt man n n needed by Mr Comiskey to make malfI his club a strong one It is certainly a a. dangerous crous team n now o w Lo Look k out for tor It Speaking Speaking- of old Athletics who ho arc now elsewhere let me me call caU your at attention at- at to John Coombs of ot Brooklyn lie has changed hla hl religion or his league I should say and I look to 8 see sec e him stir things up In tho the National league this summer r. r Ho lie is ono one of ot the wisest I haw have ever over watched work and ho he Is fA busy with Robbie coaching the thc Brooklyn pitchers He Hc Is showing some of ot them then ono one thing which a Jot lot of ot them did not seem to know Jenow last season that season that is is IH to be successful tile they must pitch the curve and the fast taBt one and the slow Alow ball with the same amo motion The Tho Idea says Professor ProCessor Coombs to his pitching pupils is to fool Cool j the batter into believing you ou are ore handing him your slow one when youre you're I really pitching a curve curvo or fast tast ball a And always try to use the same tame de do- do livery with ev every ry kind of ball hall If It you do that jouve youve got em There Thero is something In what you ou say John From what Robbie writes McGraw McCraw John Is la liable to be In fn there himself elt too |