The Detroit times., 1910-02-14
AMERICAN LEAGUE
"PLUNGING ON
LEFT-HANDERS
Washington the Only Club Not Start
ing For the South With at Least
Three of the Port-Sided
Slabsters.
Detroit Expects Killian To Have a
Good Year, and Will Keep
Speer, Adding PernOll
BY PAUL HALE sRusKE.


The craze Tor left.handed pitchers
has struck the American league cir
cult with terrific force this year
Practically every club except WASH
ington will take along three OF the
sonthpaws-recruits and veterans
ior trial on the spring trip. The easy
manner in which left-handed pitchers
disposed of Washington, Chicago, Bos'
Ton and.-at times Detroit last yea
has stirred me other clubs up 20 se'
cure men able TO initiate the feats OF
Plank. White, Kllian, Bailey, Gray
and the rest.
IL promises to be a bad year for
lot OF promising Kid left-handed bat
ters, for their fate is surely going 80
bring them mp against southpaw pitch
ers in every town
Barring possibly the Athletics, De
4 troit is wel-hAed for left-hander~.
Ki!lian Is veteran and has been hay
ing arm trouble for couple or sea.
sons. but last year improved material
~ and, at the finish, was pitching the
most sensational sort OF ball The
bugs will not be quick TO forget the
feat in Boston which marked his hnai
appearance OF the year In the box
Twice Eddie made the doughty Req
sox bite the dust in the short space
OF that one afternoon And those were
the games which enabled the Detroit
sporting extras To announce. without
heed to what could follow, Detroit
wins the pennant."
Kihan has been taking regular os-
teopathic treatment this winter with
very evident benefit. He expects 10
have an excellent season.
Speer or Pernoli?
Little George Speer was unquestior
ably the cutest piece or pitching ma
chinery in the big league last year
He was the poetry OF motion in the
box and he felded his position after
the manner OF pitching Bush. But
George needed all his Cleyerness 10
win. even from teams generally es
teemed easy for lefthanders When
il came to speed and curves. Speer
was disappointment. He himself
admitted that his strength was far
inferior 10 what it had been a year
before, when he was Wichita's star.
And then there is husky Mr. Per.
ncil. the one survivor of the recruit
left-handers who has survived TO take
the trip south There have been all
sorts OF, conflicting reports about his
size. his disposition and his ability
lr far-off Aberdeen he sprung 10 fame
last year and he really deserves the
title OF the Northwestern leagues iron
man.
For a team not quite able 10 break
even on its seasons campaign Perno!l
pitched in no less than As games. OF
which he won 20 and lost 10. He held
his opponents TO a batting rec
ord of 2ll struck out 220 men. hir
26 batsmen and gave 101 bases on
balls. Only four wild pitches for the
whole season makes him look like Il
very possible young southpaw.
Some weeks ago one OF the baseball
weeklies described Mr. Pernoll as a
giant OF more than six feet. Robert
Lincoln Lowe, the Tiger scout, says
Pernoll must have grown a lot. II that
is the case. Lowe saw him as a VERT
able baseball Sandow-short. massive
and very strong.
Pernoll came we'll recommended the
original tip being given by Fteidc:
Jones OF the WhiJesok who knows
something about pitchers He is also
the Tigers most expensive purchase
OF the fall. costing. II Is claimed ont
west no less than $4,000.
The Southpaw Census.
AS for the other clubs, they sre
numerically we'll equipped with the
exception OF Washlr eton that will keep
only Dolly Gray OF It's left-handel
band.
The Athletics are there again with
Plank AMI Krause. but Connie Mack
has sent Atkins back 10 the minors
The last mentioned got his start with
Ray City several years ago
The Boston Redsox will take Kar
ger. Collins aud Thompson 10 Hor
Springs. The las; mentioned Is Az
alleged strike-oUt wonder from the
Syracuse club
Jack O'Connor AT ST. Louis will hang
10 Bailey and Graham. with WaddcU
too. II the Rube STAYS sober and gets
started well BAILEY is being toutad
as the coming soGthpaw Of the league
EIughie Duffy At Chicago will have
the ever reliable Doc White Tie
unlucky Bill Burns and the doubt
full Sutor or his 1909 squad. and is
taking a new lefty named owen. last
year in the New England league
George Stallines didn' have left
handler good enough TO keep last sea
sen. both Schmidt and Wilson fall.
ing down. This year he viii tSy
Vaughn. mastodor last year with
louisville: Harry Wolter. the seven.
day wolder who petered out with
Boston; Frill from the Connecticut
league and Clunn from Portsmouth
Va
The Cleveland club hasn't had left
handler since Hess fizzled out. but VIII
tly three youngsters-Iinke Of Colum.
bus. Gregg OF Spokane and Mitchell
OF San Antonio The last mentioned
looked promising Ia a brief tryout
last fan.
He Just Saws Wood
Connie Mack simply won't purchase
camel. steer an aeroplane oysr
Shibe park or 10 anything else 90
break into print.