Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-04
GROOM'S SHOWING MAKES
PITCHERS LOOK STRONGER
Tall Twirler Should Be Winner If His
Performance Against the Highlanders
Gives True Line on His Ability.

praised for 1t. The result was that Milan
soon regained confidence in himself. and
| this accounts for his good work to date.
Harry Krause, Connie NIack's sensa-
t1onal southpaw, is not being worked as
much as he was last year, with the result
that he is showing even better form this
spring than he did last, when he won
OF frail physique. and for this reason
cannot be forced, but by using him about
once week he is sure to win large
ma jority Of his games. Krause, like many
opposing batters of having nothing and
being only lucky. That. Of course. is
absurd, for his work has shown him to
be great pitcher. 1t is perhaps that he
but battles, nevertheless, the deception
not being recognized by the batter that
makes him successful Whenever a
pitcher Is charged with being only lucky
It's safe bet that he has ability. TO-.
luck alone won't carry a pitcher very far.
There Is better spirit among the
players Of the local team this year than
ever before. There was a time that the
members Of the Nationals felt perfectly
close game and the fact that it was a
defeat did not bother them That has
all been changed and McAleer deserves
credit for bringing this about.
Dut MC<AlccJ Cudu&cO IuS SySlcu VI
managing q ball team since he came
here. While in st. Louis McAleer was q
driver He found. however: that his
tactics had not been successful and he
how a team should be handled. He is
now believer in encouragement. He
has from the outset impressed his play
ers with the fact that they have ability,
that it requires hard work to make good
in base ball and that the team which will
hustle stands a better chance Of making
a good showing, even though it lacks
strength, than the strong team which
displays no interest in its work.
Notwithstandins TIT. the .nr fact that sno the
to discourage most players they have
kept at their work at all times and have
fought hard with great odds against
them. 1t is this spirit which is most en-
overlook defeats IL the team displays
disposition to put forth its best efforts
at all times.
Hinrich. the coast youngster who Wal
ter Johnson says has as much speed as
he ever saw. who Is to report here within
few weeks, Is very apt to be worked
regularly by McAleer If he shows the
slightest ability. johnson touts Hinrich
as a wonder. and he il q mere school boy,
at that. tall and slender. Iunrich is
credited with having everything that goes
to make successful pitcher. At least
he showed all this while pitching against
the semi-pro. team at Santa Anna, where
johnson worked part of the winter. Hin
rich il still at school, but efforts are being
made to get him to give up his studies
before the regular vacation time rolls
around, so that he can help out the Ma
tionals.
After that awful walloping the Boston
Red sox gave the local pitchers q slump
in their stick work was to be expected,
and It seems to have overtaken them at
Philadelphia, whore Connie Mack's pitch
ers are not finding them near as trouble
some as did the local twirlers. But not
only were the Red Sox hitting far ahead
Of their natural gait. but the pitching
was miserably poor here. That the Bos-
ton team will be a factor in the race
seems certain. and yet the team has not
jumped out as was expected. It's splen-
did showing last year made it appear
that this spring the :Speed Boys would
set . rapid pace, and base ball men OK
pected them to take the lead early in the
race with a chance to hold it to the
finish. But victories have not come with
any degree Of regularity. True they beat
the Nationals three out of four, but most
any team could have done that with the
way the local pitchers were going.