Show LEON AMES IS STILLA STAR Many Former Baseball Me Mein Men in the Service Who Should Receive Preference Dy Ely I International News Service Serce NEW YORK May 27 With With fourteen years years of major league pitching behind him old Leon Red Ames who won most mot of ot hi his fame as a pitcher for the Giants Is still sUll good enough to hold a ameal ameal ameul meal ticket in the big show As a member of the St St. Louis Louia Cardinals where he was ws sent in a trade in 1915 1015 Ames Is depended upon to do a share of the pitching and with good support he generally gives all comers corners a a. battle battie Last season when the Cards began to look up and play some real baseball forMiller for forMiller forMiller Miller Huggins Ames worked In a ax total of three forty games and won fifteen lie He was credited with ten losses This season the red-headed red linger showed l surprisingly good early season form torm and In a game at Pittsburg May 2 he held the Pirates to two hits both of which were registered against him In the first inning and netted Bezdek's Bezdek s boys bOs the lone run that won the game That was something of ot a heart breaker for a veteran veteran vet vet- eran like Ames Ames to to pitch a two-hit two game and lose It One of the secrets of Ames Ames' success as asa asa asa a pitcher lies in the fact that he knows how to pitch He Ho doesn't doesn t cut loose too early in the season and he saves his arm whenever he can Pitching with one ones one's s needle as s well vell as with the arm is a secret that Ames learned long ago Ames broke Into the big show at the fag end cod of the 1903 season but did not really get his first tryout until the next season when he took part In sixteen games The next year he was ready for foral foran all an althe the work McGraw could give him and succeeded in winning two twenty-two games and losing but eight That was his biggest biggest biggest big big- gest winning year although he always worked in many games and for a number of years ranked as the best pitcher ini in either league to go In and finish a a. game i I that was In danger |