| Show K M MK yankees not tough to beat athe yankees are not so tough to beat if you go right out and T battle them some clubs and some pitchers curl up roll over and are beaten before they start when the yankees dash upon the field but the washington club bothered them last year because we declined to believe that just because the yanks were champions it was in their contracts that they could not be beaten such was the explanation of garland braxton the slender southpaw of the washington club a pitcher so slender that bis pounds are distributed tri buted along a frame of five feet eleven inches in telling bow it was the troubled the yankees so much winning nine games from them after a bad start the were just as easy aa other clubs tor new york in the spring but when the washington pitchers braxton and sam jones in particular rounded into shape they gave the champions a lot of bother major league benches are too large Is another of braxtons Brax tons sage remarks A lot of big leagea clubs carry pitchers all season who are not ready for the big show and who might be acquiring real experience in the minors the purchase of braxton by the new york yankees at the close 0 the season of 1925 was a blessing tor the slender southpaw tor it was at new york that braxton learned more about the art of mys the batters coached by berb pennock he imitated pen nocks delivery but where pen neck throws a curve braxton depends chiefly upon his or screw bail garland braxton the screw ball Is bad on the pitchers arm says george uhle it never bothered my arm says braxton and I 1 have thrown plenty of them in fact elace have not had a sore arm sometimes when new york and washington was calling on me often for relief work my whip was tired you know added braxton my lack of weight always has caused managers to figure I 1 was not strong enough at boston I 1 was told I 1 was too light when I 1 joined new york I 1 guess miller huggans felt the same way tor he did not call on me until he threw vie into games he figured were already lost but he did not consider me strong enough to go the entire route and that la how be happened to send me to wash ington so he could grab dutch ruether yet this pound six footer took part in ba games tor washington more than any other american league pitcher in 1928 in three more games than marberry even |
