| Show YOUNG VETERANS HARD 4 9 4 aw colw 4 w 4 4 j k aw iva 4 IS f 4 44 ant A X 0 XV FIX hub purdue of boston braves extremes in ago age baseball age have been prominent in the big league pitching this season prominent by effective work such pitchers as mathewson and plank are arguments in favor of reversing the fixed custom and building up alth with age each has begun the 1913 yea with a display of form up to anything displayed in more mora youthful times as if the further away from auth they get the more youthful they become we find a considerable number of rf veterans going along with ith no appa ent diminution in skill and anil effectiveness among them mathason plank ames hughes II rucker walsh while white falkenberg sallee richie and camnitz it if any of these men have gone back nothing that has happened this year Is a symptom to that effect and it f any or all of these men have passed the inevitable time at which a pitcher begins to go the other way the signo signs af f that retrogression are hard to to us die cover cover and the retrogression very slow low crack pitchers such as matty FA ik ir A k ot rall I 1 ca X 10 1 fred falkenberg of cleveland walsh rucker and plank seem to travel along for years on a plane may have its occasional deprea depres lions in the way of effectiveness but which to all outward appe appearance ance maintain an almost level standard of excellence but the king la is dead long live the tho new king the SOs feie meie were in another century the year 1913 A D not only finds veterans going at their list but has brought out dashes of tip top work by youngsters notable among these u ire ue e seaton beaton keating demaree perritt Perrl tt brayer russell and johndon the III dian all of whom have pitched one or more games of conspicuous excel lence also such pitchers as hub pur due gregg alexander alexander wellman alien allen steen hendrix and Robi neon comparatively late comers are going well |
