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Show HURLERS DEVELOP" COMING CATCHERS String of Experienced Pitchers Pitch-ers Big Help to Manager. An experienced and smart pitching staff Is a great relief to a manager under any circumstances. But there Is one particular time that It means the most and that is a time that very few fans think about The situation referred to is that In which a manager is breaking in a new catcher. Donie Bush of our White Sox is facing fac-ing Just that circumstance and he is thanking his stars for pitchers such as Thomas, Lyons, Faber, Blanken-shlp Blanken-shlp and nenry to help pave the way for the developmeut of young Johnnie Riddle. With Moe Berg, his first string receiver, on the Injured list, Donie must use Riddle right from the start. The youngster has everything to make a great star, apparently, except experience. ex-perience. When he goes behind the bat to catch such men as the above-mentioned above-mentioned pitchers, he can have experience ex-perience made to order. Naming Christy Mathewson of the Giants as pitcher and Johnny KUng of the Cubs, catcher, Honus Wagner, famous fa-mous In other days as shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates, picks all all-time all-time all-Amerlcan baseball team In Collier's. Wagner also selects John McGrnw as all-time manager. His selections se-lections are: First base Hal Chase. Second base Larry Lajole. Third base Jimmy Collins. Shortstop Joe Tinker. Left field Fred Clarke. Center field Ty Cobb. Right field Babe Ruth. A golf match was played In England Eng-land recently between an aviator and a professional, the flyer dropping balls on the greens while the golfer played on terra flrma. The blrdman won, being required only to hit the green. Tex Rlckard always wanted to build a Madison Square garden In London, and it would not be surprising if that very thing were done in the comparatively compara-tively near future. London emissaries have been over here several times to talk over the matter with William F. Carey and his associates, and the idea has received favorable consideration. The London garden might have something in common with the garden in Boston. That Is, It might be built in connection with some railroad station sta-tion which served trains from all of the smaller cities in England, but which was still central enough to get the London trade. Stagg and Yost, long rlval as coaches, never had the honor of playing play-ing against each other, but their sons may be opponents when Chicago plays Michigan at Ann Arbor, Nov. 22. Paul Stagg Is regular quarterback of the Maroons, and Fielding H. Yost, Jr. will be a back on the Michigan squad this year. The Wolverine back field is somewhat some-what open, with only Capt. Jim Slm-rall Slm-rall and Maynard Morrison of the regular reg-ular backs of last year returning; so young Yost seems to have a fairly good chtvuee of breaking In. He will have competition, however, from Willie Heston, Jr. Dan Howley, peppy manager of the Cincinnati Reds, believes in having runners on the bases and ready to run when his pitchers are working In batting bat-ting practice. "I always have a runner or two on the bases and the pitcher has to watch those runners," says Howley. "I ask my pitchers to throw to the bases and accustom themselves to pitching with runners on the path. That Is one of the most Important things In the business busi-ness of pitching. No pitcher ever became be-came a great pitcher until he realized fully this responsibility. "Many pitchers fall to make the grade because they cannot pitch with runners on the bases. Some of them change their pitching style as soon as a runner gets on. Sometimes this shift In styles takes away the effectiveness effec-tiveness from the pitcher. The change seems to throw him off his stride." Willie Kamm, the clever thlrd-sack-er of the Chicago White Sox, when he played his first game in the American Amer-ican League had a $50 glove on his left hand so the story Is told. Ilonus Wagner, one of the game's greatest players, when he played his first game in the big stuff had a glove on his left hand that cost ?2. It was a patched up affair, but he made good with that ragged glove. Both there star players made good so it must be the man and not exactly the glove. Brooklyn having no prominent golf course, Maurice McCarthy, former Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate golf champion, has Joined the Green Meadow club of Westchester, West-chester, N. Y., In order to keep In practice. It sounds the same, no matter what the language. Under the headline, "Babe Ruth, El Calnsol," we rend In El Continental of El Paso, Texas: "Babe Ruth, el formidable curnblneor de los Yanquls de Nueva York se destaca como el mas grande batendor que se haya encontrado en las ligas mayores de belsbol." Ty Cobb, baseball Immortal, broke ninety during his first month of golfing :ind nt present consistently score in Ihe ' ' - |