The Detroit times., 1909-03-18
YOUNG PITCHERS
INQUIRE REASON
FOR LIVING
FEAR MANAGER HUGHiE is SNIP
~ USING THEM AS GOATS FOR
TIGEs' TERRIFIC SluGGlNG
FEATS IN TRAINING.
Rx PAUL u. eRuskE.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. March Is
In the quiet OF the evening. after the
smoke OF battle has settled over tnH
local ball park and two more OF those
awful smuggling bees OF the Tigers had
been enrolled In the deeds OF history
three colt pitchers foregathered In d
secluded nook In the lobby OF the
Menger and discussed the Gay.
Il didn't suppose there was ever
ball club organized that could III ike
these fellows do. remarked Ralph
Works. Now you've been down here
twice before with this gaug OF muir
derers, Bump. Have they done this
same thing every day In the other sea
ons-batting balls over the fences as
If il was something OF no particular
importance and grabbing if. by any
accident. they happen 10 larrup thu
ball where some outhelder can reach
it,"
The pride of Oxford. Mich. deliber
ated a moment. Visions Df Augusta.
Ga. and Hot Springs, Ark. fitted
across his mind. Then he spoke
Well. | don't know. fellows. They re
great hitting ball club. Of course.
Still. IL has seemed to me that they We
been hitting bit harder down here
than they ever did before when | was
with them They haven't got their
whole batting strength here either, but
they have been hitting some and
YES. | guess harder than ! ever saw
EN- before
Talk about Teddy and his big
stick" butted in little Speer. why
that man Crawford with his bat make
a combination that would break mn
any league | ever saw. II must be
fun 10 pitch for gang like that. All
you'd have TO do Is TO hold the other
team 10 three or four runs; this bunch
OF demons would whale round half
dozen for you easy. il they hit In their
games like they do In practice or any
where near it.
I've kept track OF the way they've
hit me and | figure they have a team
batting average OF about 10 points
more than 500. That includes Beck
endorf and Stanage, who aren't hitting
more than half that, either
Say. Bump, what sort OF a chance
have | got to stick in this League
This from Works. VINO insists on re-
gardIng Jones as the nestOr OF All colt
pitchers. due TO his Eastern league eX-
perience and the fact that this is his
third time south.
We'll. what chance has anybody
got9" replied the sage of Oxford.
There isn't anybody in baseball to-
day going 10 beat out Wild Bill Dono-
van or Mullin or Summers or Willett
or Killian, when he's right Then
there is George Winter and Suggs be
sides who have pitched good ball In
the big league DO You think you can
beat out any Of Them"
iii tell YOU what think OF the
general proposition said Speer again.
THEY bring US down here so that
theyll surely have bunch OF pitchers
10 give those big fellows batting prac-
tice Their old pitchers don't get
into shape in time for that After
one OF us has bounced them on those
bats until his tongue hangs out. they
call in another When we're all OF us
all in. they quit. thank heaven
But. as soon "a their regular sea.
son starts up, We can take little
chase. don't y Bump It's back to
the tall-grass league then guess. with
another chance next year and then
skiddoo. II We can't show We're world
heaters
This was apparently the sense Of
the meeting. as Il thereafter promptly
adjourned