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Show MUCH EXPECTED OF GEO. SMITH Ferdie Schupp made a great record last year and is a capable southpaw, McGraw expects a lot of Jim Middle-ton, Middle-ton, the pride of Louisville. If George Smith isn't a better pitcher than either ei-ther of the two then it's all wrong, Rube, it's all wrong. Smith has an ideal pitching build. He has much of the pitching style and equipment of Christy Mathewson. He Is much the same typo of a pitcher, as Big Six, a young man of intelligence intelli-gence who studies his work all tho time and does not suffer himself to be distracted. The Columbia boy has tho mental equipment and education to make good. Ho chose to follow a baseball career and Is making as completo a study of pitching as ho would of law or medicine. McGraw never has to toll him twice how to do a thing. He studies batters bat-ters and follows directions when their weaknesses are pointed out to him. He fields his position well, and ha3 learned tho art of keeping base runners run-ners close to tho bag. |