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Show GRIFFITH TOUTS A STAR TWIRLER Although he has allowed a number of players to slip from his grasp who have later turned out to be stars of i the first magnitude. Clark Griffith, nutijger of the Senators, Is generally conceded to be one of the best judges of haseball players in the big leagues. He has decided to take a risk with that rep by predicting the Claud Ilei.drlx. star twirlcr of the Pittsburg team will be the pitching sensation of 1918 "That boy Hendrix can do anything,'' any-thing,'' says Griffith He's there with the hit when a hit will do the most good, can field like a streak and the fact that he lead? the percentage column for pitching statistics of 1912 tells what ho Is capable of doing from the mound. " And here the wily "Old Fox" sighed: 'Hed certainly make a creat working mate for Johnson." As a matter of fact, he was a sensation sen-sation among the pitchers of last season, but the pitching spotlight of 1012 was occupied almost the entire season by Rube Marquard, because of his wonderful feat In running up nineteen straight victories. Lust season Hendrix performed In thirty -nine games, in 2Sfi of which he was on the mound for the full nine innings oi mre In the ofticial statistics, sta-tistics, compiled on the ganie won nnd lsi basis, Hendrix led all the twlrlers of the National league with twenty-four letorics and nine defeats for a percentage of .727 Four of bl6 wins were shutouts He also leads the league In strikeouts, causing 176 batters to make that longest of all walks. In strikeouts Claude topped Rub Marqoard by one victim. But the Rube had forty-four games in which to kill 175 hatting focraen In fielding Hendrix tied Harmon of i St. Louis for ninth place, both having an average of 970. Another Htrong point in his makeup is his batting eye His work with the willow boosted his batting aver-He aver-He slammed his rival slabmen for the fat average, .322, In forty-six games True. YVIItse of 'ew York is credited with an arerage of r..'G but as the Giants' hnrler only went to the plate n twenty-six game, the Pirate is eaMly seen to be the better batsman. |