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Show CLB OFSOUTHPAWS Work of ..eft-Handers Marks Development De-velopment of Baseball. Dlth of Boston and Ferdie B3bt of New York Were Most Schupp. of New Th ir Re- Effective Pitchers m Their n spective Leagues. fee SZ spective leagues dm in tl e I development of buaeba In the ear dy of the 6 southpaw was a iaie a ,n National league was "' of 1STG, and during its hit ten ; y kuw", j 1 Th,icp were xvicii ru,- .. -"' couple of good ones. Yet, in w years of organized baseball it is probable prob-able that not over fifty southpaws really real-ly have made good. . It is easy to look back and recall most of the better ones since those e rvdavs. Itisashortlist:Breiten- ' i A'- Babe Ruth. stein, Esper, Clausen, McGill, White, Altrock, Klobedanz, Hannehill, Leifeld, Pfeister, Waddell, WTiltse and, of course, that ageless veteran, Eddie Plank. Half of this number jvere only ordinary pitchers. Three or four of them at most belong be-long in a class with such great righthanders right-handers as Keefe, Radbourne, Clark-son, Clark-son, Carruthers, Ging, Ehret, Meekin, Young, Rusie, Nichols, McGiunity, Overall, Donovan, Mullin, Walsh, Wood, Adams, Coombs, Bender, Math-ewson, Math-ewson, Johnson and Alexander. Waddell Wad-dell belongs In this class and so does Wiltse, one of the greatest of southpaws south-paws and a pitcher who never was given the general recognition he deserved. de-served. f In the eight years previous to last season only twice did a left-hander ;top one of the big leagues in the records rec-ords of the pitchers. In 1908 the leaders lead-ers were Reulbach and Walsh; in 1009 they were Camnitz and Mullin, and in 1910 they were Cole and Bender. Mar-' quard was the most effective twirler in the National league in 1911, hut Covington led Johnson's organization. Hendrix and Wood were in front in 112, Miithewson and Johnson In 1913. In 1914 Leonard was first in the American Amer-ican league and Douk In the National Alexander and Wood were the leaders In 191o, Marquard and Leonard therefore, there-fore, were the only southpaws 'to lead their leagues in a decade, but thin-s appear to be looking up for the clan Besides Ruth and Schupp, the hi-eagues hi-eagues now have such left-handers as "" "' Marquard, Leonard, R.xey, Si,ee, Benton, Coveleslu, Cui- ilge, Koob, Harper, Russell and Sis- |