OCR Text |
Show m - - -f, j GAMBLING IN PITCHING BUDS? Gambling in rookie pitchers is the pastime of the major leagues. Bach spring finds them stocking up with the youthful buds and each fall! finds most of the lot wilted back into the minors. The. 1G big league clubs started out a ear ago with teO of these promising fellows who w. re supposed to have magic in their arms. But 22 survived. Some of the most highly touted hush 1 gentry slipped back first, while othersj of the less advance press agent fuel rode tho waves and are slated to be the ii res of l'.iL'l Connie Mack's bunch assayed mostly most-ly gold and Clark Griffith assembled a crew that panned out The .St. Louis Browns cashed also. Miller HuTgins! produced winner out of six. Cleveland Cleve-land and the Chicago alabaster hose Ian didn't turn a single llvo one. In the National league, McGraw's judgment proved to ho all to the bad. Branch Rickey got the sweetest dealj of the entire circuit when he picked, off Haines from the Kansas City club.! Pat Moran didn't even bother to put new blood in his world champion string. The Cub's veterans worked so steadily stead-ily that the youngsters didn't get a shot at the big league swatters. Those the Phils plucked from the bushy dells have gone back from whence they came Undo Wllbert Robinson didn't ex-j perlment much but he's still holding on to Mlijus fur luck. Eyars turned out to be an ordinary pitcher for the. Braves but he's some hitter. Connie, Clark, Branch and Jimmy (who Is now unhorsed) were the only rr.ina nickers nf 1'IIMI Mrivlw. IhftV know how to break In the untried piil shooters Perhaps they were Just lucky But It might have been they us. d good Judgment. However, tho best ono can figure Us that picking budding "Waller Johnsons" John-sons" from the minor league lawns Is more of a gamble than anything else- .Yet II Is a game all managers must play. |