The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-25

PITCHER GEORGE CUPPY OF THE CLEvELANDs.
His slow. deliberate style drives a nervous
batsman to the verge Of insanity.
grasped, waiting, waiting, waiting, The
effect on the latter is like sitting In den
lists chair, constantly expecting to feel
the grip of the forceps.
To q nervous tempered player like Bro
die or Donavan, Cuppy is terror. His de-
liberate, threatening, holdback style is suf-
flcient to drive such men into condition
strongly resembling delirium tremens.
Elmer Cunningham of the Louisyilles Is
another slow delivery pitcher. have seen
him enforce the strain on batsman SO
rigidly that the latter would be compelled
10 leave the box and seek relief by walk
ing around for a change.
Cuppy's success Is 20 large extent the
result ol strategy. There are few pitch
ers of the present day who do not depend
wholly on their speed and curves, and
Cuppy Is one of them. 1t may sound like
the croaking of an old fogy, but / am
forced TO the opinion that the pitching OF
today Is more the result of brute force
than of headwork. Such men as Keefe,
Clarkson, White, Bond, Radbourne and
Matthews used their heads rather than
their muscles and gave TO the world strate
gic pitching such as is now seldom seen on
the diamond. In these days the pitcher
usually Is machine run by the catcher
as an engineer. The catcher decides on
what kind of a ball is to be pitched and
signals for IL. The pitcher takes the sig
nal and pitches as directed
That IL well enough when veterans like
Farrell, Camel, Mack, Robinson and Zim-
mer are behind the bat. But when we
have Wilson coaching Rusie, Clarke and
Moekin, Donohue directing Terry, Hutch
ison and Griffith, and Ryan telling Mich
OILS and Stivetts what to DO and Clarke in
structing McMahon, the system shows up
weak.
l have been requested 10 state what ma
tionality as a rule turns out tho best base
ball players. The question can be an
swercd offhanu. Irish blood predominates
among the stars Of the ball field Next
comes the German stock and possibly the
true, whole blood American must rank
third. Let us see IL this is not true.
In the Irish class we have Duffy, Dele
hanty, Kelley, Brodie, Doyle, Grady, Ry-
an, McKeon, Mccarthy, Mullane, Gleason,
McGraw, McP Phcc, o Conuor, Tebeau, Nc
Guire, Burke, McAleer, Mcmahon, Tier
nan, Carsoy, Clarke, Quinn, Reilly, Nc
Garr, Murphy, Daley, McGill and others.
Then comes the German phalanx, in
,luding Cross, Childs, Dahlen, Stencil,
Burkett, Becklcy, Sugdcn, Van Haltren,
Hassamaer Lange, Long, Shoch, Hart
man, Foutz, Vaughn, Solbaoh, Reitz, Gum
bert, Bierbauer, Shlndlo, Pfeffer, Boyle,
Shugart thinner, Fuller, Camel, SHE
beck, PETIT, Schriver, Stein, Witrock,
Breitenstein and Ehrot.
Sow see that the men Of Irish and Ger
man lineage predominant in the profession
Of baseball. Possibly il is the Irishman's
love of scrap or his proficiency in the
use of club which leads him into the
pleasures and pursuits OF the diamond.
Why the Germans arc almost equally pro-
ficient In the playing art Is hard to say
unless IL is because that nation as n rule
Is blessed with better oyesight than al
most any other people on earth.
Very recently Anson signed new pitch
er by the name Of Friend, who played this
season for the Fall River club Of the New
England league. The connection OF this
fact with the subject In hand Is that
Friend Is an Israelite. l believe there Is
but one other player in the National league
who is OF Jewish blood, namely Inks. The
lattor's real name Is Inkstcin, and he Is n
full bloodcd Hebrew The st. Louis club
had young jew playing on its nine a
few weeks during the summer--Third
Basoman Samucls-but he was released.
The Jews never turned ont many ball
players though they are extremely fond
Of the sport. No better patrons of the ma
tional game exist than the Jewish citi-
tens. Therefore IL is strange that no more
pf their number have been found on the
balldeld In uniform.
Anson himself Is a Swedc, and, though
Lange Is classed as a. German. / am Inclined
b. believe that the big center fielder Is al
% of Anson's nationality. His walk ar'
conduct ON the diamond roinind ne very
much Of Anson a. he appeared 10 Yeas
ago.
There never has been q negro player In
the National league. Though the ooiored