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Show Spitball Pitchers I Passing From Majors f (Bl X EA Service) CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 2? Tbo sale of Pitcher Allan Sothoron of the "eiand club to the. minors, marks he passing of another spltt-aH pitcher. At the close of th American league ason there were only six spltters In the organization. The release or Sothoron cuts It to five. It Ls almost . certainty that before the opening ol the season Allan Russell of Boston will have drifted back. Stanley Coveleskle of Cleveland. Red Fab r of Chicago, l ruan Shocker of Si Louis and Jack Qulnn are tho tour eterans certain tn start the VJ23 campaign. Qulnn hasn't a great many morn veais left. Ooveleskle, who Is a spu-ball spu-ball pitcher almost exclusively, seemed seem-ed to be nltpping a bit lust season. l'aber of Chicago and Shocker of I St. Louis would still b great pltci- . rs If they eliminated tht spitball n-tlrelv n-tlrelv from their assortment As a matter of fact, these two groat pitchers pitch-ers use tbe spltter more as i 1 urvn anything else They go to it in . pinch when they desire to slip a strlko pant the batsman. It Is doubtful If any of these pitchers pitch-ers will lairt mom thn five years, so that the entire oMmlnatton of th" gjplt- ! or la net far distant. |