Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-28
BASEBALL DOPE
 |BY TlM MuRNANE

BOSTON, June 27-Pitchers are playing a more important part in baseball than ever While the club owners feel the strain on their purse strings, with small army of box men to settle up with, the fact is they are reaping their reward in gate receipts as the result of closer races all round, due mostly to the variety and skill of the men selected to deliver the ball to the batsmen.
 With a string of six or seven pitch CTS on hand club must be playing in hard luck if three or four box men are
 not in prime shape and anxious to go after the enemy.
 The average pitcher must be on edge to win his game, for men are SC lected for their ability to work ef | fectively against certain teams, and as both teams have selected their
 ideal box men for a certain game, haf-hearted work will never land the money.
 l think pitchers work altogether too hard in their preliminary practice ! In a game at the south end last week ! 1 saw "Three-Fingered' Brown prac. | tice hard back of the grand stand, to | be in shape when called on to relieve Pfiester Brown started to work in | the sixth inning, and remained until 1 a seventeeninRing game was called on account of darkness withl the score one each.
 The next day Brown went out be ! fore the game and worked out in q l lively manner and then pitched a { hard game. Two days later Brown was selected for the box work with ' half a dozen strong arm pitchers sit. ! ting on the bench. l asked one of
 the Chicago players why this clever I pitcher was not given another day $ ! rest and sent against the Brooklyn club. I was informed that Brown was seldom used against Brooklyn, as they had a number of left-hand bats men and PfiesteT was chosen to start of with Brooklyn, as he was a , left-hander.
 Here then was Brown. a phenome- nal workmen, but sensitive and not over strong, practically worked out for the time, with the idea of bring ing him back against the New York Giants. or some other team that he is most effective against. And 1 want to say that 'Three-Fingered" Brown is a classical workman, but not a pitcher who will stand overwork much longer.
 
 Old~timers will tell you of the won derful performances of men who pitched every game their clubs played and never knew what it was to have a sore arm; in fact, would pitch the season through rather than allow a substitute a chance to show his skill. The result was one-sided champions ship races and a lack of interest in the game.
 A. c. Spalding was the first pitch CT to work in every game that his cluL played In 1872 and again in 1873 he pitched the Boston club into the championship. working in forty-seven games the first year and in sixty games the second year. In 1875 Spalding pitched sixty-thTee of the seyenty-nine games played by the champion, and was helped out by Jack Manning, a young Boston amateur, the youngest player to ever join the i ranks. and now one of the princes ot old-times who attend the outings each summer at Paddock's Island. down | the HafDOT-
 In 1876. the first year of the Ma | tional League, Spaulding pitched sixty of the sixty-siX games played by the ! Chicago white stocking champions. 1 Col. McVey, an outfielder, worked the
 other six games.
 Then came Tommy Bond for BOs ] ton, in 1S77 twirIing every game and
 not allowing the subpitcher, Will White, a chance to show his remark able line of curve pitching. Again in i 1878, Bond pitched fifty-nine of the sixty games played by the Boston champions. an outfielder twirling tho other game.
 In 1879, John NJ. Ward pitched six i ty-five games for the Providence ] champions and Roberts Mathews tht i other nineteen. The success of tht ! Providence team, working a substi 1 tute pitcher, attracted the notice O f