Show YANKS HAVE A FINE AFF OF YOUNG i PITCHERS SY i Will Carry an Even Dozen Them i Until Cutting T Time M May 15 A f. f Ime ay tI J By BOZEMAN BULGER NE NEW YORK April 8 Until S.-Until Until the fifteenth te of May Yanks have dec decided ed to carry an even dozen pitchers a decision de cislon that Bill Donovan reached after h having barely escaped the loss of Urba Urban Ur Ur- ba ban Shocker a young twirler who looks to be the goods It was a question ques ques- tion of the retention of Shocker or orDan orDan Dan Tipple Tippie but when Bill BUI discovered that his pitcher the pitcher the cheapest buy of the year year was was in demand all allover over the circuit he decided to hold them both But It was no easy job Dan Tipple cost the New York club In caSh while Urban Shocker stands them a measly Incidentally tally the price that Ty Cobb brought I Just the same the club lub found it possible I ble to get waivers on the Tipple Tip Tip- j while two big league clubs made madea I a dive for Shocker already had their m money ney up and but for some rapid work over the telegraph wires at thelast the thelast last minute he would have been lost Th The Cleveland club is still hollering about having been given the tue work The capture o of this young man Shocker is BO so well In keeping with the history of at so many great stars that h he should make good Just to keep up tradition It seems that Harry McCormick the former Giant while managing Chattanooga recommended a pitcher pilcher on the Ottawa team in the Canadian league As many clubs were after this fellow the sleuthing had to tobo tobo bo done mysteriously Bobby Gilks tho scout took a sneak up that way to have a a. look and make a a. report He found others on the trail His Ilis report read There may be some trouble in getting getting get ting tho man mau you spoke of but bul there is a much better pitcher on the same team Put in ina a- a draft for Urban Shocker Shock er cr 1 right away I the draw New York got Shocker and all they had to pay was Two days ago they had to fight to keep a club from taking him away for 1500 Right now they could sell him for more money than they could Dan Tip Tip- and Dan cost But they are not nol i going to let Shocker go If It it comes t to a decision between the two Ti Dle will go first the difference of notwithstanding The Yank staff of twelve men is the they have ever had It begins witt tour four regulars regular either of whom sl should uld win a majority of at his games The veteran quartet is made up ol of I Fisher Caldwell Shawkey and Keat in Ing Fisher was the best winning pitcher pilcher according to the records of at la year year but Caldwell ran him a very close second Shawkey bought from when Connie Mack began his big shakeup pitched good ball for foi Donovan toward the end of the sea son despite the fact that he lost many of of those hard luck games He was beaten repeatedly in games with scores like 2 to 1 and 1 to 0 O. Bob looks look very good this spring I Keating a puzzle to baseball men 11 for two or three years appears to have found himself this time He should have been one orie of at the greatest pitchers In the game two or three years ago possessed of the natural natura ability immense strength and size nc no one could understand why he didn't come through The Yanks have been I oft offered red fancy prices for Keating but bul they have doggedly refused and now v it looks as if it they are to be rewarded Keating was married during the winter win win- ter nd the new responsibility appears made him take his profession more seriously He is anxious to make g good d now and Is working like a beaver Of Of the new men and Cullop Cul- Cul lop both left handers appear to beI be I the best They have had experience Moreover they both have control Cullop Cullop Cul- Cul lop came from the Federal league with witha a great reputation and his work here seems to Justify it ft In his manner of pitching reminds one very I much of ot Ralph Stroud of at the Giants i Stroud was a veteran apparently bei be be- i fore he ever got into fast company and the same can be Bald of i A A. real youth who Is certain of at his I Job for a while is s Piercy a flaxen flaxen- haired right hander with the speed of I a Joe Wood or a Walter Johnson This boy with the is but 19 years old and he has everything that goes to make a good pitcher His speed is terrific and when he varies it with a slow curve the batters in practice swing their heads off partly oft partly through being puzzled and partly from fear of at being be ned One of at those fast ones whizzing under the chin is liable fable to make anybody shaky In hi the knees I IA A running mate for Piercy in speed i is Slim lim Love the big southpaw It If YOU you can picture a man six feet and andI I seV seven n Inches tall with an arm like that of a windmill turning loose a baseball from that height straight down at a tiny little batter you can f see with what difficulty they hit itI it Love Is the I tallest man that baseball 1 has ever fostered and with large larger r hands and long arms to match his speed Is terrific I To make the matter all the more 1 complicated for the baUer baiter Slim Is a left There 13 is no doubt that Russell the star of ot the Richmond club I last year will be kept for a while and Markle will also stick until Donovan rides his second cutting The left handers of at the new men have an advantage ad v vantage in that southpaws are very much needed For two years the r Ya Yanks k had no let left left-Handera anders at all |