| Show 1 H i Father Chadwick dwick and nd n nt Hir lid Views V on ontI t Pitchers Timely a Gossip G ass In I ILe n the time Big Bid Bi Bie tI League Le guer Sebring S e gs s Batting w j I iJ ENRY popularly Y 11 known throughout the country C as 08 the father r of baseball l has ban r I made modo an on Interesting contribution lop tion to 10 the limo Itter literature tore of the na national gum game by announcing the results re of ot n of ot Investigations he hI has hu made Into the tho effect produced on teams by the maintaining of oC large pitching l g Father whose whole opinion 1 tan lon by IJ tt day way Is worth u n great dent deal i nan haw coma cone to tl the that a 11 large lalle of oC twirlers Is a handicap rather than limn a 11 benefit r That fuel fact he hw declares was apparent In the Ih races of ot the National and Ameri American can un leagues ln that t when the sixteen Ae rz 4 4 t i lt r t ta tn tf rj J a t t I n f C W SAMS BAN JOHNSONS LE LEj L j GAL ADVISER I It t Con Conway way W lY Sams formerly president nt I of the I J A W Is fa coal er to 10 I t r President l lIt Johnson John on of ot the American league l steering him dear clear of many an annoying annoying if tangles tangle In tn his hI baseball dealings i r t clubs o h hall had d no lesa M than 1 pitcher hers an n l I average of ot eleven wirier t to n a 1 club and yet t not mart more than four lour pitchers In each b took tank part In mure more than ten len games of the tile Two years un ago aro fo the tho con conditions were pretty prell much the some same but not to b pronounced as PI waR wag the tho th case last lait season tison i Here 1 I nn an II I J t A striking Illustration of Father bather bathery y Ch argument U Is to be told had h d by byi i comparing the work of 01 the winner and the tall till enders enden of a I year ago 00 Tie The champion champton cl PI tu burgs had but five aye m nun n non it on th the pay roll roil who pitched In a sum auff sufficient dent c t number n r of o games m to Rive give e them I e a 1 standing The New Yorks however who ho taut last had no less leil titan than thin thir thirteen teen slab at artists tilts In action six of them doing th the Ihl major share of or the work worle Five of oC the pitched in no vic victories 1 tortes tories lorl Th American league contest also alto pro produced results evidencing that too luo many man are a R white elephant An Interesting feature of ot last season b becomes Lorne noticeable by b a comparison e ethe f C the records r of the winning teams leans In both major maJr leagues In the National the JIt t burg won th lr second e ond pennant f solely through the IIII work ork ut of their pitchers The Tho champion of ot the Americans how vcr the silk Uk streamer by reason of the gilt gUt support the tw tn s rr rl Ivell Ho So o It II becomes be plain that there U is I no rut and dried rule ruin for tor success S In and IIII the argument frequently frequent advanced that lint a 1 good pitching corps will always make a ful Cul tram train was proved Incorrect by b the thi teat feat of ot Connie Macks Quakers who won on out n against till net at ot least leant three American teams having better bettor pitchers Twenty Twirlers The club In the American league last past year employed twenty er era IrM anti and yet the club dub tithed finished aay dawn doun In tho the list Three of oC the number pitched In more mOrl detente defeats than victories and six failed to win oven a single con context text teat 14 Is any more proof needed to 10 show that Ihal the th strength of 01 a 11 team lean does not net depend on Its Ita having a large lane number of pIt hers This Thin year It would seem sHIm that heat the va varl varl B rl i le s captains anti managers mau gera In the bl blI big bigI I have Imp learned t a 0 lesson Thc nt of oC pitchers has been materially r as lu ul rd In several ln instances i and when th h fia p asun on dOles daces very nr few teams same la In mil Ill eu hr h r th thi American or the National h 1 acu n II will be found to have h ve used more mol thun seven a m or eight twirlers at the very Cr must mOH Tl The CollA 1 a tine One of oC the greatest surprises s In the National league 1 lIlue this Ihl year car has lui been len the splendid showing of ot the Chicago teRm team nt tart Hart and Manager Selee Helee have hae ba left no stone Ione unturned to put pul a strong aggregation on the tho diamond and tie the sterling article pf pC I bail HI 11 that has hall resulted lions chows conclusively that they Iller know kno their business The Th Cults Colts managed to 10 forte force their way to tu the top lop o of the league early In the Ille season and the Windy City funs funt un at last had nil ad nl opportunity t tl to root for Cor team that was n net t lingering down among the also rans rane Th The baseball conditions were some lOme somewhat somewhat what reversed from Crom tho those of or last sea sen son sail when American Whit Sox Sent were fortunate enough to 10 lime have ha e the In the American league early In to the campaign Hut baseball h l is 18 11 like he horse horae hor racing In Us its uncertainty sad and a ale team le ln that Is la the pride of oC the land one moment limit Itself striving hard for lor a II reputation the next The ur of ot The wordy ordy war lx between heen Hart and anil was wae finally settled nettled much to the relief of ot the followers of th the gome game gomeTha The Tha proceedings which mat Led the con controversy ono were not flOt dignified d did na as much to 10 hum harm the tile game ane In hi tine minds r f till the public as do altercations allocations between ayon and umpires And by the way nay s of ot urn um lir hee did you ever 11 prat Ilar of ot a n more un tin unc c bonce nce on the diamond han that which placed graced the r recent c nt games In New ew York Pitcher i d his hl Just Juit when lc Pulliam went sent him to 10 the then n h for tor three days without pay but Lint butt Lintt t the same time Umpire Jm lle was wasat it at 1 without blame He H not havo j unwed the to Im tin l in that they behave behl as ns they IhlY Met with at as a o team The Tle rules have developed a II streak of 01 I that will III but bat ul revert reut to their Injury If It persisted In Umpire Johnstone hail had A Ol 1118 agre le time lime at Cincinnati recently and the po police Po Police police lice were compelled to escort him to the live tHIa I gate a It He lie called a n Cincinnati runner out at al the home plate cord and the rooters talked threateningly for Cor a n time John Johnstone j I stone itane say sayi IIII It U seems m to be M the urn um plies s lot to 10 bear a big bh burden hunlen of Cli Put I make casks m ke It my III rule rude to give u lust Just Ju t as a though there thero was no audience present This practice makes trouble rouble for me sometime for tor the Ihl fans Cans do lIu not 1101 I the tho that lint I for tor I seeing a play Ilia but hut I 1 consider the th method the tho only rate one on fair to 10 the play era Ii is All Jimmy Sebring that ilia I deer clever youngster from tiara Bucknell university wh where whre Chris Christy ty I also learned how to 10 pitch Ii b certainly rate onu of the best besl things on time the baseball me Is II Isa isa a 11 hitter hiller from away III back bad and he ho fills the th place vacated by Lefty Letl Davis In a manner that causes Fred no regrets that t hu t Davis Da Is chose to LO lump jump to is the t l ague In III n a accent 1 game in Pittsburg Sebring 0 H did seldom seen on an the tile dint d mond mend In lit the second Inning he struck the tb ball 1111 fairly farly on the noc nOI It 11 alighted lIgh It ft hl deep tle center and aid I d rolled under undu the th cop r p for a II horn home run fun While the lilt hit w was wa i remarkable the Min MinMI speed MI d with which he merle made the tb of Gt f the bases was WU more murt so Tb The lore loll on looked on In admiration In III n the fifth JUtt juet to 10 show the spectators spectator that thul his lou WM as no Se Sebring bring brine landed on of the tall Jail fog tn nl a o ahome home run ft n to the center f tl ld d dence fence ence When Jimmy reached ti pili plate Ie after er nix Ada rt rapid base ha running the crowd wart II i it II Wild slid and e every ery ry man on rat the Pirate tei leam hook his hand iI f Cr CT You n p Put Tut to come cause to the question of IC pitch hitch c r do you jcu know has hall tha ha claim in lu Man being the most mOIl remarkable his hirr r III In the country He lie Is no na other pl er than thun iy ty Youn Young of ut Boston Cy C hns hak beset In humi hurn harness s t fur rl oI than thal h yea QUO and till i t ec n today loony his r nt compares m II ouLI with Ih best of or the lIe y young oung I Iy In t f fi i v y IK is I nothing less lees than a 11 plant being in I TI n 11 than Uan six alx feet eel trill and the Ih power in his hll arm and shoulder It 11 ng ni nl In s II man of ot till his age lIe He takes lakes ex and ami during the Iv lent rate cate of 01 himself season never neer lets n a day pose POM PO without putting In at le loat t nn on hour of or practice Cy C takes take things too tully easily In the box he has bos wen been known to tot get Ket t his hla bumps good and hard but buC when Wh each 11 misfortune attends Cy C takes up UI an Inch or two Iwo of 01 slack In his hll bolt belt and andIn AndIn andin In the next irain jUnto Invariably squares the flue deal deel B |
