The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-28
LONG ON PITCHERS
MGRAw IS THCKLEp WITH GIANTS
 STAFF.
Exaeefa Mafhesyaon to Have Another Great Year mna Jake Wetmer fe Also Due Some
 Good Work.

Manager John McGraw recently made the statement that lie has every confi. dence In the world in the ability oI the Giants pitching stan to make good ir he ssiS that the same opinion pre- vAils on the National League circuit, says a New York paper. At the pres enf time McGraw has fourteen on his ras.sr Hss RaySond TssS sre naruusrde Durham Holmes. Weimer. Beecher, McKenney, Simmons, Waller and Paige. x
 Of these Taylor, Beecher, Paige; NC. ksnaey simmons and nd, Wallsr she Hi sea. eo son opens. Jake Weimer. the left- hand finger, is almost certain to pc on the staf If he first makes his peace with the National Commission ana then comes to terms with McGraw. Weim- CT pitched fifteen games Tor the Cin- cinnatl Reds last season. Of these he won eight and lost seven. McGraW mas the theory that a pitcher who can make q whining average of .b33 per cent. with the Reds can do better with a team like the Giants behind him. Spade was the only red stocking twirl- CT who had a better percentage than Weimer for the season
 Matty in Fine shape.
 There is no reason to think that Christy Mathewson will not be as good if not better, next season than he was in 1908. as he is in splendid condition this winter. The great fade-away art ist took part In ffty-six games last year, eight more than any other Ma tlonal LeaEue pitcher and two more than Ed Walsh. the Steel Man" of the Chicago White Scx. The official re- cords give Matty credit for thirty-sey- en victories and charge him with elev- en defeats. winning percentage or Reulbach, of the Chicago Cubs. who won twenty-fepr games and lost sey- en. pereentugsso of .7t. Matty struck out 25y batters and gave only forty two bases on balls, considsrab,y less his victories were shut-outs.
 Speaking of the dope on past per forTnances. says McGraw, Matty.s record suits me. At that 1t doesn't ber B, when Bfatty beat the Cubs with Brown pitching, only to have the game that won. us the pennant taken away
 McGraw thinks that the next season will be the best George Wiltse. the Giants hard working left-hander. ever had. IWfitee has been with the Giants since 1904. He improved every season until last year he put himself in the I front rank of southpaw pitchers. He | pulled off twenty-three victories as | against fourteen defeats. His no-hit ten n-inning game against the Phillie. the season in the National League. MeGsraw Looks to Amea.
 | Last winter Leon Ames was q sick man and he was ia no condition to 3oir 1 the Giants when reporting time came | This year the husky young pitcher l writes that he is in excellent healtf and feels as strong as he ever did When Afnes finally joined the tean | gladdens the fans Next to Matty'' 1 his winning percentage was the best with seven victories and four defeats McGraw expects Red" to finish thii l l.N avna- centage of .6ss. which was exactl, what the Giants finished the seasor with in the pennant race.
 | Then there's Bugs" Raymond 1 "Bugs' is the puzzlinE spit ball artis
 who, while with the St. Louis Cardi. nals, held opposing teams to an aver age of two or three base hits. only tc ! lose because of poor support in tht games and lost twenty-five an average of .375. The Cardinals finished the
 season with .31S per cent. Five of hi' victories were shut-outs.
 In the matter of strike e-outs. Ray
 mond caused 145 batters to fan the air I Tn that important branch of the pitch ers' art. only Mathewson. Orvie Over I all. of Chicago. and Nap Fucker o' lusions are made on the circuit thes'
 "beew." John McGraw will take cart
 of Raymond in that respect.
 Marnuardt WIII Be Ready.
 McGraw Is not discouraged by thu unfortunate debut Rube Marquard made with the Giants last fall. whei
 the Cincinnati Reds broke a losing streak by Knocking Red out of the box Neither is Marquardt. If he lives ul to his record in the American Associa ition he will do for the Giants. Fl pitched forty-five games. three mor'
 than any pitchers fin the league. win
 ming twenty-elght and losing nineteen
 Rube is wintering on his farm fl Brunswick. O.
 1 stand feet inches and ain
 through yet. I'll be a great help tt
 somebody when I grow up. I will b' in first class condition when I repor
 to McGraw in the spring"
 Louis Durham. the Iron Man" 0 the American Associatio will com plete McGraw's staff Durham met witl
 disaster in the same game in whicl
 Marauardt was checked. His record O
 nineteen victories and seven defeat
 with the Louisville and Indianapoii
 clubs makes him look good to thu fans