Show PITCHERS SEEK MORE HONORS I MANY tANY STRIVE FOR VICTORIES Exclusive Twenty Has Plenty of Big I Loop Candidates DIrt B l GEORGE Special of of The Standard Examiner Copyright 1925 by the Consoli Con Consolidated oll- oll dated daled Pr Press sJ Association lIon NEW SEW YORK April 18 With l the baseball season barely begun two or three major league learue pitchers already are ar on their way to qualify for or membership In the th exclusive club twenty II It will be bo understood how I dlf-I dif difficult It Is to achieve this distinction tion ton when hen it is explained that thaI only eight pitchers four pitchers four In each ach e ch league leacue lea ue made mad the th grade trade last season acason To fo quality a pItcher must win 20 or more games ames In a season and season and that thatIs thatis thatIs Is not being belne done don so often these thee days Ty Cobb started a lot of talk about the Twenty club down south buth this spring when hen he remarked that If lie he h had four pitcher pitchers who ho could 20 games or more mor each hIs tum would win The fact that no manager ever has hasI hash I hid td d as many as four pitchers who won as many as a-a 20 games fames In the same season made no difference 1 i It 11 was somethIng to talk about nd ned the th writer discussed the th Sub Sub- Subject I with no lops leu let than nine major I I league manage managers and Cobb wasn't one of them It n was the of opInIon I I among these managers that De- De Detroit De Detroit troit or any other team would win the pennant If it had four pitch pitch- pItch pItch-I pitchers ers era who turned In 20 or more mor vic victories tic tic- tories each since Inc It could count countI counton Counton counton I on Its Ita lesser lesaer luminaries for at least ten victories In addition The council of managers went over the tle list of pitchers in the two leagues and picked out fifty men whom they regarded as eligIble to 10 membershIp In the th Twenty club Although five of ot the th nIne nin managers are connected with with- the X National league they selected thIrty one thirty pitchers from the American league and only 19 1 from the older circuit SOME so TASK T Selection of ot a pitcher for tor the eligible list merely means that lie he heIs lieis hIs Is regarded as being belne capable of wInnIng 20 or more mor games for his club If It given elven support The fact that Ie less than sixth one of the number regarded as eligIble this season qualified for for Zor the Twenty club last lut season leuon shows s show how great I are th the chances of o those thole thos pIcked to tall fall down And yet the th number of those selected as u eligIble are arh hardly more mor than one fifth the th to- to total total to total tal number of ot pitchers In tho the two big leagues The Th members of ot the th Twenty club of 1924 and games came won were NATIONAL LEAGUE Vance Vane 28 2 Mats May las 20 Cooper 20 Grimes 22 AMERICAN LEAGUE Johnson 23 28 21 20 Thurston Thurlton 20 NewYork It II wilt will be b noted that the Ne New York Giants Giant won the National league league pennant without havIng one member ot or this select COmpany whilo the th Washington S Senator carrIed a away way tho the American league nag flag with only one Twenty club performer Brooklyn with t two members had to be b content with place Hero Is a list lIot ot of the el this season In the opinIon bI of the for nine managers mentioned and the writer AMERICAN LEAGUE The Yankees Yankee have Shocker Jones Hoyt Pennock and Shaw Shaw- Shawkey key Some Son roll Any of or them likely to Come coins coin through Washington has ha Johnson ary ary Coveleskie kle Marberry and Gregg Gr ir wasn't put puI on because they say he cant can't work often orten enough enouch Ruether didn't get geton geton reton on because he is too loo uncertain Detroit has Leonard I Collins Holloway and DauBs Dauts Ev- Ev Everyone Ev Everyone I of them with the tho exception of o Leonard has the en- en endurance en endurance durance of an army mule The Athletics have hav Rommell I Groves an unknown quantity but buta buta buta a pitcher pilcher of ot endurance Baumgart- Baumgart Baumgartner ner nor ner who begins to 10 look like a real thrower and perhaps Gray The Th White Sox Box have Thurston Robertson Cvengros and Faber aber as candidates for th the e roll of honor Cleveland's Cle TweDt Twenty club ap- ap ap apprentices prentices are Smith Ed- Ed Ed Edwards thc varda-thc wards th ards-th council seemed to think a lot of him and him and Uhle I The Browns drew Bush Dan Dan- Danforth forth Dan forth and Gaston for their nomina nomina- nomination nomination tion lion and that Is lj thinkIng a lot of Gaston GuIon for joor the TIed Red Sox only Ehmke is named although Jack Quinn seems Beems perfectly good for the fray and so and so o does docs Ferguson NATIONAL LEA Nearly alth all al th the managers were ware shaky haky about the th Giants Giant's pitchers pitcher yet all of them are cr k sure the I Giants will win the th pennant The twenty men teen named are Nehf Bentle Bentley Barnes and Scott It 11 I makes one stopS slop and think a II min mitt minute minute U ute te I IFor For Brooklyn the lh twenty bo boys are Grime Grimes and Petty etty etty and that Is I going tolne to put a lot of ot work on somebody else before the th sea sea- season season sea season son Is 11 I over Por Pittsburgh h Yde Kremer anti and AldrIdge got cot ot the th decIsIon and that gives pause for tor thought hat will the th kids have hav to 10 do for tor the PI ates to win For the Cubs the th rail call l Is given only to Alexander Cooper and Kaufmann Haufmann In Cincinnati the chosen ones onu one are r Donohue Luque Mays Maya ant but Slay Maya has haa a 0 sore for arm armand armand armand and may not nol get et going for or some sometime time For or the th Cardinals Cardinal only two are named One On of ot them tb ni m Is b a kId named Rhem nhem and the th other is 18 Sot Sothoron boron I Boston Boton and Philadelphia are ar not conceded to have hav any Chance chanc chan e to win in the th National and no ho no t ty pitcher Is looked for fop on either of them hero althOUgh Jess Jeu B Barnes Barne on the U onU Braves and ad Jimy Ring r on the th Phils era are not nOl n t to be l courted counted out 0 of t It I |