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Show DIAMOND COMMENT TJMPIRE 'Silk" OLoughlln of the American lcagu does not agree with tho majority of baseball followers follow-ers thit tho new cork rentcred bill Is responsible for the hcay hitting this season Recently the king of American Ameri-can league Indicator holders gae tys opinion of the new ball and also hie reason for disagreeing vlth those followers fol-lowers who Insist that the new spheroid sphe-roid Is too heaj 'Silk offers the argument ar-gument that in oerpIuc of pitchers Is to blimo Each tim carries from six to ten pitchers, and tho cluo managers, mana-gers, as a rulo trj to glvo each man a ' fair trial Thin plan gles a pitcher only ono day In lght or ten for work and It Is hard for a mm to shoA at his best. "Cut down our pitching ntr.ffs to six men," sijs O Loughlln, and jou will' havo tho solution of tho hard hitting problem " How much ono ball plaer miy mean to a club seems to bo shown In the case of Boston whose owner last season sea-son put through tho somewhat celebrated cele-brated deal with Chicago Reference Is had to tho trade of Harr Lord and Ambrose McConncll for Frank Smith and Billy Purtell. ono of whom Taj lor does not now posscsB and for the other of whom he necms to hae no use Boston never looked good after Lord got away last season and it no time this year has suggested to anj one that It would be a serious contender Stahl Is missed, of course, but the real loss Is Lord Engle, who his tried to Buccecd him, has tossed game aftor game cither through plain errors or through his Inability to cover ground Wagner startod In handicapped by a bad arm and does not now seem to be much greater distance from tho plate than tho pitchers, struggling with sharp boundera and liners it io easy to sf- tno predicament a pitcher will bo In if the ball is hit hard right at him. |