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Show JACK WARHOP STILL HURLING IN BUSHES Veteran Has Turned in . 3-Hit Game This Season. Tills seems to be a season out of the ordinary for veteran baseball pitchers. Grover Cleveland Alexander, who la getting along In years. Is pitching about the best ball of his career for the Chicago Cubs, while Walter Johnson John-son Is winning frequently for Washington. Wash-ington. Itecently at College Point, L. I., little Jack Warhop, who passed out of the big league nine years ago, shut out the South Philadelphia Hebrew He-brew team with three scattered hits. Perhaps Johnson, Alexander and Warhop have discovered the fountain of youth. Warhop is nearlng his fortieth forti-eth milestone, but the followers of the College Point team are Arm In their belief that the little Indian could pitch winning ball in either the National Na-tional or American leagues. "There are worse pitchers In the big league today than Warhop," said a College Point fan. "Jack Is pitching pitch-ing real baseball for us, and It was a treat to watch him toss the ball against the bats of the Philadelphia players. "Perhaps he has lost some of his speed, but he's a smart little pitcher and the other fellows don't get many good balls to hit at "He'll not throw the ball as fast as Dazzy Vance, but there's plenty of 'stuff on every pitch and the opposing players have their own troubles trying try-ing to solve bis battling underhand curves." Warhop has been pitching for a long while. He first west up to the big leagues with the Detrrtt club In 1907. |