The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-07-28

save a game, ] don't see how they
could stop u.s." ''.
This is the line of doEe one hears
on every side and yet there isn't hall
a dozen of the select great" pitchers
in the business, with each club car
rying from eight to ten men.
you can't land the money without
at least one great pitcher" remarked
baseball critic. In fact, this has
been the rule for years."
81 was forced to differ with the
young man." says Tom Murane. "The
ball team that must depend altogeth.
er on a phenomenal pitching staff is
not the ideal organization. If you
started to build up winning ball
team, the last thing you would think
of would be the pitchers. First, you
would scour the country for fast
infield that could hit. Then would
come the outfield-fast ground cover.
ing outfelders, who could hit, and run
bases. A catching staff would follow.
and then the box men would be So
lected. ~.
In the early stages of the game the
pitcher came first and the catcher
next. One catcher did four fifths Of
the work behind the stick, and one
pitcher with sub did all the pitch.
ing. That Is the reason we remem-
Der such players as Buck Ewing,
Mike Kelly, Charles Snyder, Frank
Flint, Charley Bennett and other
great catchers, as we'll as such pitch.
ers as Charley Radbourne, John
Clarkson, Amos Rusie, Jimmie Calvin,
A. G.. Spalding, Bobby Mathers and
other famous box men.
Some of the greatest ball teams the
game has produced had no star box
men. One can hardly remember who
did the pitching for Charley Comis.
keys four-time st. Louis winners.
What fan outside of Baltimore can
remember the staff on the Baltimore
three-time winners under Ed Hanlan?
Yet where is the real fan that cannot
name the other members Of the oriole
world beaters?
No club in the business has dis.
played the form for ten straight years
| that Pittsburg has, and 10 team has
depended less on their pitching staff
Whether the pitchers were going good
or bad the Pirates have always held a
formidable position, depending on
their ability to field and make runs.
The announcement that Red" Rob.
ert Kelly was absent from the White
Sox right field on account of an injury
proves to have been not quite the
whole truth. The club officials forgot
to add that Kelly had been stopped
playing with the Sox by order of the
National commission. It seems that
while at Notre Dame last season Kel.
ly got tangled up with the IIo,yoke
club of the Connecticut league In some
way. He did not sign any contract
with Holyoke, but gave that club
enough claim on his services to allow
Holyoke to protest against his use BY
the Sox and 1t was necessary to stor
him until President Comiskey can
straighten out the tangle into which
INC COllcSidu SOL uiulSclI. NeSOLl&
lions to that end are in progress.
For 13 years Hans Wagner has been
hitting at a better than 300 clip,
feat beaten by only two men in the
history Of the two major leagues.
They were Arson and Dan Brouthers.
Arson had a 800 average for Is years
straight and Brouthers scored as high
a figure for IA years right of the reel.
Waco and San Antonio, of the Tex
as league, played through four and Q
half hours for % innings recently to
a tie. to 1. record for the league
and one Of the longest games ever
played in the south. Ables of San
Antonio and Londell-of Waco were tho
opposing pitchers, the former strikina
out II and allowing Is hits, while
LonGeii struck nut II and allowed ID
h;ts.