Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-09-16 | Page 11 | Joe Wood, Latest Sensation, Could Curve When a Kid of 7

JOE WOOD LATEST SENSATION COULD CURVE WHEN WREN A A. KID OF OP 7 More lore or less frequently In the th baseball world there appears on the far horizon a twinkling object In which experts of the game recognize an Important star atar Learning of the new discovery the tans fans are especially the critical ones become anxious ious bus to know all aU about the value of ot the newcomer Man Many of the games game's most sensational players were first discovered In some remote place twinkling like a a. distant star and expert cruisers for the big league clubs kept them In eye o and mind until they developed the right kind of baseball quality Amon the pitchers Rube Marquard the left handed boxman boaman of the tho New York giants created a a. sensation by winning nineteen continuous victories He Ho was enthusiastically en en- greeted as the best pitcher of or the tho But the tho time came when Rubes Rubo's effectiveness began to ItO wane and the steady progress of the giants became vexed by obstacles In the way And there were others Big Biff Ed Walsh for many years the tho premier performer for forthe forthe forthe the Chicago white ox and Walter Vatter John John- p n of or the tho Washington club were werA deemed the greatest pitchers In the countr country Meantime the glint of ot the newcomer on the baseball horizon has waxed brighter Little attention had been given to Joe Wood the red rea sox wonder who was aB all U the time gradually but surely advancing nd tho the team to a a. leading po position In the competition n for the American league championship Joes Joe's be best t work seems to have been kept for the present season At the present time Hmo of or writing Joe Wood h has won more mor than three fourths of of his games and has saved several games s for other pitchers In first rate rato health and physically able to pitch every other game me If it necessary much depends on this young oung pitchers pitcher's marvelous skill hi ti keen mental qualities and ht his cool headed Judgment not only to win th the championship hl of or the American league but to bring to Boston the cham ham plans hi of the world this fall all Joe Wood Is In his twenty third year yur While a a. first year student In the tho Uni Un of Kansas Kansa hi he Joined the Hutchin son Kan t team m. m The year car following he went to the Kansas Kansa City club of the American al association His father was a lawyer laer and anti ha bet has haA a brother who adopted law as a profession Ilon but baseball was so attractive to Joe that his mind turned away from the Idea of becoming an attorney at at- torney and he gave his attention to do de curves drops quick and fast straight over the plate shots Asked how he mastered the knack of ot curving a ball Wood replied I 1 could curve a a. ball balt when I was 7 1 years old I never nover was shown anything about pitching I devised and developed every curve cuno and shoot that I use All AYi through my school days I played ball batt and while often assigned ed to other positions I was usually called up to pitch the im im- games