The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-22

against Walsh. They had much larger
horsesi1oes than the Maps. taking two
games from the big fellow that were
On September sth Walsh had the
Tigers whipped to z. with two out in
the ninth inning. and Dowre. the cas-
lest mark for Walsh on the Detroit
team, at the bat. Cobb was on third.
apparently waiting for the last strike
to be missed, but before that happened
hub Hart missed a spitball Cobb
scored. and the game dragged on until
the twelfth, when the Tigers got to
hitting. and won with three more runs.
Errors Cost Victory
Ten days later Walsh was pitching
the second game OF double header at
Detroit. White having won the firsr.
lie gave Detroit only three hits, only
one OF them out OF the diamond. AMI
not Tiger deserved to get past frss
base, but costly errors by Davis tossed
the game OFT, the final straw being
wide shoot that Sullivan failed to stop,
letting Davy Jones score the winning
run from third minute before the
game was stopped on account OF dark
ness.
Other pitchers have lost tough games
of course, but Walsh surely made {.
new record In that unfortunate par
ticular. He didn't win one game
through good luck to five he lost
through hard luck, according to slz-
ing up OF his record.
Walsh pitched so much during tho
| months OF June, July aud. August that
he wasn't In Just his finest .fettle at
the finish. and victories. came Harder
for him. but he got his share OF them,
| just the same
Throws "spitter" Only.
With Walsh it's nothing but tho
spitba1l. He throws that ball inces-
| sanity, and toward the end OF the sea-
son 1t wasn't breaking In quite the de-
ceptive manner 1t did earlier In tho
year. and twice on the final Eastern
trip Edward was bumped hard. One
| day at Washington the Senators made
six clean hits in q row off him, but that
was one day he did have his luck with
him. Altrock came into the game,
| pitched stanchly. and the Sox pullaI
out ahead; SO there was no defeat to
Ischarge against Walsh. When spit.
hall pitcher can't get his favorite de-
| livery, kp rking right he has nothing TO
| fall. baok. on, and now and then Walsh
| foun dsh h,self in that predicament, but
that was aueldom,s until he went stale OF
~ Ss asis 4 4ouna walsh the most willing
worker manager could ask for. He
always was ready and anxious to go
into the box to take charge of q game.
/ no matter how the score stood Times
without number Jones sent him to stop
batting rallies. or to hold the enemy
until the Sox could get to hitting, and
when losing streak had to be brought
to quick end, Walshsusually was the
pitcher assigned to- the job.
DIade :27 Assists.
1t undoubtedly was on account of the
| spitball that Walsh had 80 many more
FIELDING chances the any other pitcher.
| For q twirler to handle 227 assists
means either that he Is covering q,
world Of territory or that an unusually
large number OF ground hits are be-
ling dribbled toward the box. Both
| hold true In the case of Walsh.
The only pitchers In the American
League who were credited with over
loo assists were spitball twlrlers.
Howell, Joss, Mullin and Smith. Doc"
White had over 100 assists. but
doesn't depend much on the splitter, al
| though he can throw that ball.
Whites large number of chances re-
suited from extraordinary alertness in
covering ground.