| Show j MAJORS HAVE HAV POOR PITCHERS PITCHER Speaker Gives Views On Mound Men In Both j Big Leagues By Dr GEORGE eH DWICk Correspondent o of TIt I F CO Copyright HIght 19 1124 b by The Con Con- Con tol d Press Pru Association NEW EW YORK May 4 Just a av average era e pitching neither I gOOd not alarmingly poor with a ahall hall dozen 01 Ot mor more pitcher In either Ither legue and tuck or honors u to the that finish that Is the 01 or ot the theold theold old e ax-e Trl Tris Speller Speaker tor the selL sea seaon Son on of ot Speak Speaker r hns ha had gin sl weeks In 1 which to look o ci the thc o the th pitcher In hi his 0 own n league and his conclusion Is that nil all ot them Including hl 1 own n ue ir going to have ha a a hard tIme lime setting a hIgh Inning average i or the tho season He H ks the thc same saml thing li Is true In Inthe Inthe the National and hi his Idea is borne born out b by perform performance ance to data l f It H Is 1 on thin a average erase brand or pitching that thai counts on onto to put his Indians In The the running or their second pennant r Not he thinks his hll 0 own n pitcher Ith the possible c exception ot or the strap strapping ping thle ha have anything much on the rut rest ot o the circuit But Speak Speak- Speaker Speaker er s team is made up ot at hitters and ones once the hit their stride he h thinks the will smash the daylights dayLIght out ot at the opposing I All that he hc asks aks ot his 0 n itch rs is that they hold the II- II op opposition position to nn avel age of o rh five 0 run IJ game came He figures on hi bai- bai bat batters to make maken an n occasional block ut tOUl tou to six runs Interspersed Interspersed ith n ln le run e ft erY other In- In In ning I often enough to put iut his club ul The batting ability of o Hi la t ear he points out won thema them a lot o or ball games and made pitcher records look 1001 nuch better thin than had they tiry been pia playing Ing nith Ith a slugging non team nuns ar not coming any too easy to most clubs this season Speaker says Tak Take the cass case of or Cleveland In a ot o games this month three thre games In the scoring ran up Into two rig fig figures ures and pitchers were ero balled right and left the winning club averaged S 5 6 11 runs per lIano and the losing club 2 t-ll t lheris e 18 no pitcher In the th American league who has sta started ted a runaway pace Dantorth ot the th St Louis Browns swept along alone until he h struck a reet In the cast Joe Bush ot oth the Yanks Is shaping up well ell and run to the top again Valter Johnson might get Int Into the tho lead it the team behind him t thick hick away so many games Shock Shocker er will make mak a fight but he h Is not likely to win In three thre out ot four s The same Bame situation obtains In the tho National league Alexander I pretty prelly well But n Rvan an who led In 1 23 can t seem to ret get start start- started started ed and Luque I Is tollo following Ing up a afat fat ear with an exceedingly lean one So 30 taking It all In tn all It looks It Speakers Speaker's dope dolo were about right Meanwhile It Is interest Interest- InterestIng interesting ing to note what hat a dangerous thing It is inline to be for tor a base baseball ball club to 10 venture out of at Its 0 n backard The western clubs at o the Am- Am American Am American league ha have 0 been going around the eastern circuit stub stub- stubbing stubbing bing their toes And the castern I clubs ot the National league didn t the road much smoother In Inthe Inthe I the west est But at that tha they didn t take as much punishment as the th 1 western American league clubs took In the east cast The Chicago White Sox or ex- ex example ex example ample Just naturally Ira right toward to the bottom when hen they got cast It Is doubtful It they III climb much again this sea sea- sea season son They did not seem to be pul right in t t e spring and their managerial vicissitudes have not helped them any |
