The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07
E PAGE OF SPORTS
EAT PITCHING
BY BILL OINEEN
lie Won Worlds Cham
|nship by Striking Out
Mighty Hans Wagner. it,

burgers have cause to remen-
II Dineen, the Boston pitcher.
as been transferred TO the st.
Browns in exchange for Pitcher
IN and $500, and who pitched
p to defeat last week.
n was a great pitcher. One of
latest that ever created optical
s as, and called them curves. Two
greatest individual pitching
rs feats of the game belong to
lie pitched many fine games last
b hough he was far from being
best This year he has not
anything like good ball
@Rn has been pitching professional
Is thirteen years. ten Of them be
the big leagues. That is. some
5But he is a young man. a strong
fresh fellow. and Cy Young.
lever was better has pitched
"a years in first class company.
Ill has thrown 100 curve balls
one Throwing curves makes
Dis upon the arm that throwing
L balls does not.
Dineen Ideal Pitcher.
Pm, a man. OF ideal pitching
Sue, has one of the best and most
Re pitching. motions of any man
ing balls.
II fellow, he takes a fun swing
long step. gets his body into
Ten and follows her through. He
some grand games last year.
not half fit. His sympathy
he recalcitrant manager of the
club. Collins led Bill away
The paths of prudence. But he.
a plenty just the same.
fhn first came into prominence
be Washington CNationaI league)
+. 1895, He was a bit slender and
I tbsN time and was with a door
He stuck there in 1899. doing
10 earn feed money and in 1903
1 the BOstOns, later jumping to
znerican league team of the same
Eas 1903 that D6neen won himself
#g lame as "A man Of nerve.
land pitching powers. That sea
wv Pittsburg play Boston for the
i championship. The Pirates
TO make a runaway race of il.
Iyon three Of the first four games.
when one would have lost them
championship, the Bostons won
Straight in Pittsburg. Ii was up
h" then. The money all Law in
me. Later il all lay on one ball
chose Bill To hitch the game
row the one bail 'uDOn which the
|ionship depended.
|Vhen Wagner Struck Out.
PIE ninth inning Boston was one
bead and PiTtsbuTg had two men
Ees. Hans Wagner, the greatest
in the National league, if not in
Eorlds was at the bat. The con-
pal situation of two out. three
md two strikes on the batter and
o win confronted Dineen. Upon
Re Of the ball he was to mitch de-
4 the championship. the glory. if
Indeed the life of the American
|e stood the greatest of hitfers
bat He had the advantage of
Eng that the ueXt bail had 10
II or that Biz would lose courage
PISS him 10 first on balls. As for
h. he had nothing in his favor
bis own Stout heart and strong
have Jimmie Collins own word
that the players behind Din
|ould not have been of any value
h had Wagner hit the ball.
pit, and the boys all told me they
bs If we could not catch q ny
went up or pick I'D a .;rounder
tamef ITO US, said Collins TIE
OF the series, of the game and
|e situation had US all pros
Esmayed Big Bill faced the
y BehemOth of bats and balls.
! he looked around. saw that his
IS were all ready. Slowly ne took
|gnal from the catcher. Criger.
with a slow, fun, winding mo-
be drsV back to the utmost limit
reaSh. took a good look at the
and burned her loose.
Travels Like a Bullet.
bullet eyer left gun mouth with
II initial velocity. The ball sped
It that Wagner declared il looked
pea to him Hans was on the
He, too, might nave avoided the
by standing still. taking "a chance
base on balls or striking out like
pid- But. like Dineen, Wagner
a man. He took one step for
with his right foot. one with mis-
nus walked from under his hat.
| sight and cut loose
vain. The ball shot past I'M
d. Wagner had struck out.
game was saved. Boston ana
merican league had triumphed i'm
reatest uphill championship ever
on the diamond.
be following year the same iden-
situation confronted Big B.Il.
he exception that the champion
was only that of the American
:, and that ii was Pat DoUE1arty
'ew York, not Wagner and Pitts
that faced him. Again the pluck
over of Dineen made Boston tn
ant and champion. As the
), who won the National ieagu-
)ionship that year. refused 10
he worlds championship OF wish
ostOns, who won The American
race, Big Bill virtually made ms
for the second cOnSecu-
me.