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Show S0TH0R0N IS GIVEN NEW LEASE ON LIFE Without Spitball Brown Pitcher Was Failure. Regain of Confidence Makes St. Louis Tosser Think That Former Skill Has Returned Held Cardi-nals Cardi-nals to Four Hits. All.an Sothoron, Brown pitcher, is blooming again. He's got his spitball and his old confidence back. Giving spltballers a continued lease on life meant more to Sothoron possibly pos-sibly than to any other of the 16 major ma-jor league pitchers now qualified to use the moist delivery. Without the spitball Sothoron was a failure. He was started against the Cleveland Cleve-land Indians in the opener last year (Without his.spitter. They peppered ' W - SS y 1 VfSrS 7J Allan Sothoron. him off the hill. Later In the season he was reinstated as eligible to throw the wet ball, but be made a poor comeback. come-back. That one game turned him from a winning pitcher into a loser. His pitching average for 1020 was .324 as against .R2o for the year before, be-fore, when he used his pet delivery all season. "When Cleveland beat me in that game I got the idea in my head that I wasn't there as n pitcher without a spltball,"says Sothoron. "I had depended de-pended upon it too much. The spit-hall spit-hall Isn't the only bnll I throw, but It fits Into my system. . "After that disastrous game with the Indians I couldn't regain my old confidence, even after they gave me my spltter back. Confidence is a thing that any winning pitcher must have. "A pitcher might have a fadeaway as good as Mathewson's, the speed of Walter Johnson and the control of Babe Adams, but unless he thinks he con master the batters who face him he is helpless. I'm going to be all right again this year." The fact that Sothoron held the Cardinals to four hits and beat them in an exhibition game Indicates he is his old self. With the apparent comeback of Sothoron the Browns' pennant chances are looking up. |