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Show 4 SPRING TRAINING GOSSIP On the trail of the lonesome southpaw. south-paw. A lot of major league managers u;e -inglng thai ditty in the southland. south-land. No . major league club consider Us pitching staff quite complete unless un-less It boasts a crack southpaw. . It is n rather unusual fact that a number of big league ball teams i.fV.-.l Mich i". individual I -.ft ear. . " The profcnce of a crack southpaw on a ball club means much. It enables en-ables the manager to offer a diversified diversi-fied assortment of pitrhing. A crack loft bonder is a threat tha; can be used to advantage in many directions. direc-tions. Often in every circuit there are a couple of clubs very weak against southpaws. A crack left handcr has no trouble taming such a club into subir.i.s.-icn in a couple of games in every series. . Tlrn again a southpaw is often lnvr.luable In a pinch, when a team . Is taking liberties with some right , handei Such a change oftvn abruptly abrupt-ly stops a rally tliRt Is being staged at the expense of a right hander. In the National league the two leaders last year. New York and Pittsburg, are much more fortunately Mtuated The Giants have Nehf and i the Pirates Cooper. They are two of h best southnaws In the eamo. ... It looks as if Tris Speaker of Cleveland would be forced to place hta dependence In Walker Mails us far as southpaw pitching Is con-cerned con-cerned Walter Mails has the stuff. No southpaw In the game has more on ih- ball, However, last year I Mails was unable to win with con- . sistoncy. . . . I'ndoubtedly Malls at the start of i last season felt that he had a very I large reputation to live up to. In the spring a sore arm retarded him. j In his early games he lacked c.on-I c.on-I trol and was unable to win. Un- questionably that affected Ills confl- dence. There is no doubt in my I mind that all these things tended to work against his success. Malls I certainly should bo a far better itcher in 1921 . |