Show BIG ED S FITTER PITTER RANKS AS BEST lilt Z f 21 J marty 0 toole 25 COO pittsburg beauty marty 0 toole says hank oday 0 day manager of the cincinnati reds has a spitball that breaks something like walsh s but be he has nowhere near as much speed nor anything like as good control and yet he Is getting more strikeouts getting them against good batters too rather hard to figure but he s getting away with it in clever style notwithstanding the reds cant can t un der stand how 0 toole gets away with it it Is probable that he will be a sue suc pitcher unless something happens ao to his arm there Is no greater pitcher than ed walsh of the chicago americans and in intelligence big dig ed also ranks high n f ia big ed walsh he ile says the spitball Is and will con dinue to be the most effective ball a pitcher can throw one can understand how 0 toole could fan bescher a star hitter on the cincinnati three times straight and also make every other man on the team miss them after reading what walsh sas sacs he can do to hitters as cobb crawford and jackson jaclson the stars of the american league the white sox twirler says when I 1 ive ve got my breaking right I 1 can beat any ball club in the world no use trying to bat against it its simply larry la i ax jole ty cobb and other hitting stars stam of the american league will tell you the same story ask cajole about the time I 1 fanned him in cleveland with the american league championship at stake stale rhe Is a terror when it 1 works right one day I 1 had detroit in the nine hole and you knon the tigers are some hitters I 1 think cobi cobb and cranford craw ford are two of the greatest ers the game ever produced the had them all standing on their heads neither ty nor sam could coula get it out of the infield I 1 held them hit less for eight rounds and had two gents gone in the ninth when my catcher muffed a foul tip it he had only held the leather it would would have meant another out and given ahe me a no bit hit game against the tigers the mutt muff gave the batsman one more chance he dumped a roller to tannehill Tanne hlll who had a hard play to make and missed his man f fhe he scorer called it a hit flmer stricklett invented the spit ball in 1904 1 I swiped the idea from elmer and have been perfecting it ever since now I 1 think I 1 ive ve got the spitball down finer than any other man in the game |