Show AMERICAN LEAGUE STAR SOUTHPAWS grove and pennock termed greatest left handers robert moses grove of the elie alila athletics and herb pennock or of the new ark yankees have been termed the greatest left banders in the game they merit the superlative records in baseball louder lhnn words and the records for the year of these two stellar southpaws account for the con commanding in ii a large way lend lead held by the yankees yankee and the athletics over the other clubs in the american league before going out of tile game in the middle of august with will n sore arm pennock had co contributed 17 victories R alast six losses to the yankee cause tor for an averige of while letta groves line fine average of a rolind around 7 ia has done n luch to keep the athletics in the race lost last season pennock won iron 19 games and lost eight while grove won 20 and lost 13 pennock penned allowed the pittsburgh pirates only three hits in the th third rd game of tile the world series to ghe the iho yankees their third consecutive win liv hv tile the score of 8 to L 1 connie mack relieved the philadelphia Ath lelles treasury 0 of f oil lie grove from the baltimore Halt imore orioles in the of 1024 1124 tills this sum represented the largest amount deviet spent for a p pitcher I 1 acher the terms of the sale oy DY w which I 1 bleb grove groe went to the athletics culled called for tho money to lie paid in annual install monts ments for a perlor period of eleven years this eased the burden hut the cash hill III he paid just the lie slime same pennock his has been IL the american league foi fo fourteen years although he Is only thirty two years old connie mack also introduced tills star left hander bander to the ways of the big leagues back ir 1012 1912 the dign school nine of kennett square pa had a tall gling youth as pitcher who wits wag winning games consistently following his schooldays school days he be joined the kennett square independent club philadelphia newspapers begun began to carry stories of the year old wonder down at kennett square connie much mack was aia interested cad and one ilav dav lie made n trip to the scene of herb Pen nocks activities tivi ties and returned with a signed contract when lefty came to the athletics from the orioles lie had a failing which Is common among twirlers twirl ers breaking into the big show he had a world of speed and a lot of stuff but bill he knew next net to nothing about the science of pitching connie mack and ira fro thomas tackled the job of revamping groves style the experiment was successful grove Is twenty eight years old he was born at long achning md on march 6 1900 1000 lie he broke into professional ball with mar tins ainsburg burg in the blue ridge league in 1920 und aud early in the season was bought by baltimore |