Show ROSY PICKS HIS MONEY HURLER Milwaukee Brewer Drewer Pitcher Recalls Phil Douglas Who was III the best money pitcher pitcher- rIn r- r In the last quarter century t Was Wu It l Eddie Plank Grover tr Cleveland Alexander Alex ander or Herb Pennock If It you rou will frill permit BUI 1 Ryan nyan of the Milwaukee Brewers to decide It Is neither of this trio Rosy's choice Is 18 the almost forgotten Phil Douglas Dougla ten tD years ago John Me Me- Graw the ace Phil you rOU may remember was wal the bootleggers bootleggers' best lIt friend while on the pitching stuff staff of the Ot- Ot ants ant and nd his devotion to the cup tUP that cheers prevented him from hanging up a record that would haste put lilt him himIn himIn himin In baseballs baseball's IIII's blue book right near the frontI front I 1 have seen a lot of ot ball bRIl games and a tot lot of ot pitchers during my stay In the big leagues but when It tame came to toa toa a 1 tough spot my choice would always be the Shuffler Shumer And Douglas 1111 liked to get It Into a tight battle In the eighth or ninth MIle lie had nerve as cold as III an Ice Ice- berg He lie might have hue been doling dozing In Inthe Inthe inthe the sun IUD somewhere And when they sent se-nt him In to relieve he be would probably probably abl ably ask what Inning It was fAl and how many he had to get out The nr first t two pitches would co go whistling at the cite batters batters batter's bat bat- batters batter's ter's chin and then lien Phil would come comedown comedown comedown down the middle with three straight strikes When he threw at III yo yot 10 te ire wasn't tooling fooling either I 1 was with the Giants Chants the at few years Douglas was Willi In baseball and his hi Intemperance became so bad that he lie would hock hoek almost anything h he hind had to get It even ven the worst kind of ot drinking poison Ills His pay checks checkl all 1111 went to his wife and nM finally Issued an order that any player that loaned even nn a 1 dollar w would he be fined bucks buck nut Hut out In the center of ot that diamond with the en game me at stake was the greatest the game has ho known I |