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Show HI MAYS VICTIM OF TOUGH LUCK THIS YEAR; Hi FAILURE TO GET BREAKS HINDERS WORK I. . ' :,r..., IK YEAR brings about 'some funny Vrhanges in baseball. This time last season, as the Yankees Yan-kees were coming down the home stretch, Car! .Muss and Waite Hoyt were carrying the burden ol the pitching. pitch-ing. Mays finished the season of 1921 with 27 lctorles, Hoyt with 19. New York. In order to win the American Am-erican league pennant, registered B8 triumphs. Mays and Hoyt scored 46 of the wins. Some pitching: In the world series these same pitchers pitch-ers were called upon to save the day Each pitched three remarkable games. Hoyt winning two and Vlaye one. The two defeats suffered by Mays and the one by Hoyt were heartbreakers. DIFFEJUCNT THIS YEAR There was every reason to bollovv that Hoyt and Mays would be equally successful this year. Thus, when Bam Jones and Jo.- Bush th sta ol the Boston staff, were sold to New York, I It was only natural that the i xperts should concede the pennant to the Yankees. Thlng3 have been mighty dirferent this year with the two star pitch r of the Yankee staff. With fpi r.wi I of the season to go. Hoyt had 14 Memories Me-mories to his credit. Mays, on the oth-i"er oth-i"er hand, had only 12 wins. 1 It is possible that Hoyt will com close to his 19 victories of last year, but Mays Is certain to fall far below his mark of 27 wins for 1321 LI CK NTSEDEDj TOO. j They do say, that to be a winning pitcher, you must be blessed with luck, as weil as ability. Last year the Yan-;kees Yan-;kees made plenty of .runs for Mays, this year they seem to leave their bats I In the club house when he performs. iHoyt's luck has been much the same. I Failure to get the breaks often robs a pitcher of much of his confidence. That, to a certain extent, has played havoc with the Yankees' pitching this year. I can see very little difference between be-tween Carl Mays' pitching this year and laf-t lie seems to have iU3t as much stuff, but he can't win with any degree of consistency HOOD00 WORRIES HIM .Ma; h is high-strung, temperamental ho lacks the poise that would enable him to throw off the hard-luck hoodoo hoo-doo Instead, he worries over his failure fail-ure to win, which', !h turn, naturally affects his pitch. np I Last year Sam Jones, pitching for Moston. won 23 games for a club that finished fifth This year, with a month to go. he had only won 11 games for the league-leading Yankees Joe Bush ha;i carried thr Yankees' 1922 burden. With rour weeks of play remaining, he had 22 victories to his credit He should reach the 25 mark I easily. Hob Shawkey. who failed in the se-Irios, se-Irios, and was counted out by many of I the experts, ranks next to Push in effectiveness, ef-fectiveness, THREE BB&1 Bl TS Thus, the three best bets Mays 1 Hoyt and Jones have not j un true to form, while Push und Shawkey hae bettered past performances. Howcer, despite the disappoint-, iimnts that have crept Into the Yankee 'staff, I rate it as the equal of any in jthe major litgues. Hoyt. Mays and Jone have all their old-time stuff. ! Their falluro to win is simply ono of j tho many mysteries with w hich baseball base-ball is filled. ' If the Yankees get into the big series se-ries tho opposition certainly will be 'forced to look at some mean pitching The staff boasts five regulars of class and experieni e |