Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-22 | Page 11 | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down

yOU CiSfT KEEP .. ' II GOOD MM HMD Sport Feature Writer Praises Work of Al Sothoron. . By FRED TURBYVILLE. A fellow wh has enough brains to invent all the little tricks that Allan Sothoron Is famous for la small enough to .produce other foolers. There arc two kinds of pitchers: The pitcher with brains and a good I a rni'. , The pitcher with a good aim. j Sothoron is one of "the 'first class Thev declare he was a winning plttli or with the Browns because lie had sc much trick stuff; that most of -his rep- ertoire was bulff. Well, granting his critics are right, you must admit he has brains. ... x . And there is none but that MU Wl ' swear he has, a good arm. Wr' a They've Wlceii all his tricks aa F from him, but he'll come back v- itr. I . ' somethings else. Hc-ls young nnd-hls ' arm is as good as it ever was. His ' brain is better. So just watch foivAl ' lan Sothoron to wind up the seasonal ft 920 with another good record. V Sothoron in the getaway game. Tho Cleveland opened viciously againsi hit him hard and often. The Indian? ? '. were murderously inclined before r. !'::., , huge home, crowd that had been tJk-I'i tJk-I'i f : J ing' pennant all winter. And the Indi ' ans look like a team that can hammei, y most any pitching this year. And a i&fc ' . ' i lot of their hits on opening day got . f, anmn lo'.inw hv inches. ; K Thev had the bicaks on all or them. K ' : i On the other hand. Sothoron seemed ' ; j bothered a bit by the restrictions on i the pitchers imposed in the winter's i j legislation. He looked awkward as , ' . ' ' he held the ball away from his glove - or shirt. He used to be rubbing it 1 I against himself all the time. But on - opening day he caretully look off his : blove and held the ball at arm's length ' ' when he rubbed it in his hands. He didn't want to be canned from the game. ' tiy . This was all unnatural to him and J probably it made him feel as awkward j as he looked. . ; ' " He says his arm is not quite right ; and that he will be as good as ever i.j when he gets started once, "f "I could have used the spltter. on! 2 opening day if I lid chosen',"' said Al- 3 lan. "Manager Burke had permission from Ban Johnson to substitute me as , a spitball pitcher in place of Gallia, j "But I don't use the s.pltter much; ! t it's only a bluff same as a lot of other t stuff 'Ive pretended to use "