The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-04-01

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surprising remark several days ago
that he expects RUDE Marquard to be
one of his best winning pitchers dur.
ing the coming season. Since the
training season began Marquard has
been kept very much in the background
He pitched in very few practice
games, and has done comparatively
little work of any kind on the side.
Il think we worked Marquard most
too hard last spring." explained Nc
Graw And he was so anxious to
make good that he overplayed his am.
bition His first disappointment at not
making good after having been talked
about all over the country as a SILL
600 player took the art out of him and
his nerve to certain extent went
with it. If We can get that $1,000
idea out of his head and make him
pitch as naturally as he did at Indi-
annapolis, think the Giants will have
most valuable man.
"They may say what they please
about Marquard," said McGraw. "But
know that he is good pitcher. He
has everything that a good pitcher
ought to have, and no man could have
done what he did before coming to
New York without having been good
man."
Marquard has been working on
curve similar to Matty's fadeaway
ball, the only difference being that it
is thrown from the port side. AS it
is perhaps well known, the fadeaway
is slow curve thrown by right-hand-
ed pitchers. 1t breaks to the outside
OF the plate, and that is what makes
the fade-away such a puzzle. Mar
guard is showing wonderful progress
in developing the left-handed fade
away, and If he ever succeeds in con-
trolling it so that he can make 1t drop
away from the batter, just as Matty's
curve drops in toward the batter, he
will have wonderful puzzler.
The Giant camp is so enthused over
the unexpected pitching brilliancy of
Parsons, the former star of Bucknell
college, that the annual christening of
new curve balls has become fad.
They have their sneeze balls, their
Whit balls, their sinker balls, their
stop balls and all that line of stuff
says Catcher Robinson, "but l amt
kiddin' you when say that this fellow
Parsons has got curve that is abb
solutely new to baseball. The only
thing l can think of as a name for
it would be the fish ball"
1t was thus recorded. Parsons has
the fish ball." and if anybody can stop
that for a brand-new curve it's Just
like money in his hand
Parsons Is already known as "Slim"
and skinny" He is so tall that he
has to low bridge on electric fans, and
he is so thin that McGraw barred him
from the hot baths to prevent him
from evaporating.
Pitching a no-hit game 80 years
ago did not cause near the sensation
in the world of baseball that the per-
Torrance of such feat does to-day"
says Business Manager Bancroft of
the Reds.
"Why, can remember back in 1879,
over so years ago, mind you, when
J. Lee Richmond, low teacher in a
Toledo high school, pitched a no-hit
game the first time he worked in a
professional contest, and the perform
ance didn't cause any kind of a stir.
Richmond was student at Brown
university at the time and was pitch.
ing some great ball. l was managing
the Worcester team and we needed q
good pitcher to face the Chicago club
one day, so we went to Providence for
Richmond, and he came.
what he did in his first game is
history. Not one member of the Chi
cago club reached first base on hit.
One player received a base on balls,
but was thrown out trying to go to
second. His regular catcher at Brown
caught Richmond in that game, and
we paid the two $40 for their after.
moons work.
after the game Pop Arson came
to me and asked me If I had signed
up Richmond. I told him I had, but
that wasn't true. That same after.
noon I signed him to contract for
500 month.
1--WE asked him to pitch another
game for us later. It was on the day
he was to graduate. He graduated il
the morning, and in the afternoon
was rushed to Worcester on a fast
train. The opposition hammered him
all over the lot that afternoon, but he
was a great pitcher and soon was
pitching rings around most Of the