Show I ROOKIES SHOW V A ABILITY B I LIT Y WITH MAJOR SQUADS Alexander Looks Forward Forwar to Best Season ot of o oHis His Ills Career By fly GEORGE Special Correspondent of oC The Tho Copyright 1926 by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press NEW NEW YORK March The 6 6 I I rookies are having their In- In Innings In Innings now at all the major league traIning camps and reports re- re received re received bythe by by- the writer from all the managers Indicate an unusual dearth of oC good pitching material Great pitchers rs do not seem to tobe tobe tobe be produced these da days This Is tm common wall wail of oC the managers They all have plenty of young pitchers but not one thinks he has a Mathewson son a Johnson a Three Fingered Brown Bro or 01 an Alexander In the making Pitching In fact fact Is the big problem of oC the tho day in baseball Everybody connected with the game from Judge LandIs down Is deeply concerned with lith finding a solution to this problem Are the thc pitchers of oC today la laboring la- la laboring ha- ha boring under too many restrictions restrictions restrictions I in the thc rules The man man- managers managers man managers agers will seek to find an an- an anI an answer I to that question in the corn com comi Inc com i campaign If It they do decide that the thc pitchers are too greatly I an effort will be made to have the joint rules com coni- committee com committee meet again before another season rolls around and provide some relief F EW FREEDOM Any relief that Is given probably probably ably will be In the way of allow allow- allowing ing a pitcher Thore more freedom with his feet Under no circumstances will those who rule over the des destinies des des- of oC th th- th game permit a return to the old conditions under which the pitcher was permitted to roughen the cover of ef the ball In professional proCessional baseball there thele Is always alays a relative relate Value between rules and nd players and It Is i to acquire a proper balance that rul ruhn J have hao i t been changed hanged from lime to tn time Quite Quito luckily for forthe forthe forthe the canto came th change almost In- In Invariably invariably In Invariably variably has been for fol the better If baseball has become again nearly alt all ball bali men mn beleVe beeve that It Is d decline cl o of pitch pitch- In Ine ing that has caused The fact that such stars of other oth- oth othel er el days as Alexander and Johnson are still holding their thell own against young pitchers who have grown grownup grownup grownup up since sinca they started would seem to Indicate that a star stal pitcher of the first magnitude needs not help In the way of oC changed rules But since the managers seem to tobe tobe tobe be In agreement that pitchers of thIs class are not being devel- devel developed developed devel developed I the pitching rules ruin need I shaping tr t fit men of oC lesser a aver aver- aver ago er ago ao Reports from front Catalina Island where the Chicago Cubs have e been In t longer than the theother theother other elhel major majol league clubs Indicate that Alexander Is likely to have havea havea a better year vear than tian be he did In 19 5 The great veteran at 39 I Is aid ald to b i b-i In fine early season which Is all the more remarkable In view of ot his won won- wonderful won wonderful work In that 19 inning 19 game In the Chicago City series at the tho close of oC last season In that game Alexander gave one of the greatest eJ exhibitions of at de de- de e de e vork rork ork ever shown n by a pitcher Some Somo followers of oC the tho game h vc e thought that exertion of oC that great game gamo have Injured hs e It was recalled that and Cad Cadore are were neve ne the same after that 25 in ln 25 game they pitched a few Cew years eau aTO ao But apparently Alex Alex- Alexander Alexander Alex ander ander Is none t the e worse for fol his experience Ird reports from the Cubs camp v v he has not the semblance of oC an additional crease either in his face or 01 arm Alex Alex- Alexander Alexander ander andel by the way ay does not b be- be be resin Is helpful to a pitcher In fact tact 1 h thinks it Is la more mOle harm harm- harmful ful than helpful to a 0 young oung pitch pitch- pitcher cr er He lie says he never has luas used It and cannot recall any great pile er ci who w o did t- t |