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Show ADAMS BEST HURLER ON PIRATES' STAFF Years of Service Fail to Stop Pittsburgh Star. His Clever Twirling Won Worlds Championship Eleven Years Ago-Still Ago-Still Has Plenty of Stuff and Knows How to Use It. Babe Adams Is the most remarkable athlete now hurling the pill in the big leagues. By all the laws of nature he should now be combing his long, white whiskers and relating to his grandchildren the tale of how he pitched the Pittsburgh team to a world's championship in 1900 eleven years ago. But here he Is still In the flesh though there is more of it clinging to his frame than there used to be and still around slinking a mean arm and shutting out National league teams. Ten or twelve years ago Adams-Mathewson Adams-Mathewson and Brown were the three crack pitchers of the National league In those days the Pirates, Giants and Cubs always operated in the first division. divi-sion. Brown faded out seveu years ago. Mathewson passed out a little later, Babe Adams. and all the other first-class pitchers of that day have long since been gathered gath-ered to their fathers. Adams in the National league and Walter Johnson In the American are the two remaining remain-ing stalwarts of the departed generation genera-tion of big league pitchers. Johnson is tottering, but Adams displays no signs of wearing out. Adams joined the Pittsburgh team in 1907. Two years later he pitched the Pirates into a world's championship champion-ship which was hotly contested by the Detroit Tigers. A few years later he dropped to the minors, but built up such an impressive record there that ' he was recalled by the Pirates three years ago. Today, he is the best pitcher on the Pittsburgh staff after warm weather sets in. He still has plenty of stuff and knows-how to use it to the best advantage. |