The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-12
AMERICAN LEAGUE
"PLUNGING" ON
LEFT-HANDERS
Washington the Only Club Not Start
rs 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.
nv PAUL HALE eRUsKE.

cult with terrinc tofce inns gSal'
Practically every club except WASH
ington will take along three OF the
sOuthpaws-recruits and veterans
for trial on the spring trip. The easy
manner In which lefthanded pitchers
disposed OF Washington, Chicago Dos
ton and---at times-Detroit last year
has stirred the other clubs up To Sc
cure men able to initiate the feats OF
Plank, White. Killian, Bailey, Gray
and the rest
Il promises TO be bad year Tor
lot or promising kid left-handed Dat
tiers, for their fate Is surely gong 10
hiring them up against southpaw pitch
ers In every town.
BARRING possibly the Athletics De-
ltroit Is well-hxed for left-handers.
iKiIian Is a veteran and has been hay-
ing arm trouble for couple or sea
sons, but last year improved material
IN and. ut 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 fnal
appearance OF the year in the box
Twice Eddie made the doughty REQ
sox bite the dust, in the short space
or 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."
Killian has been taking regular os-
teopathic treatment this winter with
very evident benefit. He expects to
have an excellent season.
speer or PernolI?
Little George Speer was unquestioE-
ably the cutest piece OF pitching ma
chinery In the big league last year.
He was the poetry OF motion in the
box and he fielded his position after
the manner OF a pitching Bush. But
George needed all his cleverness to
win, even from teams generally es-
teemed easy for left-handers. When
1t came to speed and curves. Speer
was a disappointment He himself
admitted that his strength was far
inferior to what II had been a year
before, when he was Wichitas star.
And then there is husky Mr.. Per
noll, 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.
In far-off Aberdeen he sprung to fame
title OF the Northwestern leagues iron
man.
For a team not quite able to break
even on its seasons campaign, Pernoll
pitched in no less than As games. or
which he won % and lost 10. He held
his opponents to batting rec
ord of PHI, struck out 22O men. hit
&c batsmen and gave 101 bases on
balls. Only four wild pitches for the
whole season makes him look like a
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 verit-
able baseball Sandow-short. massive
and very strong
Pernoll came well recommended, the
original tip being given by Fielder
Jones OF the White Sox, who knows
something about pitchers. He is also
the Tigers most expensive purchase
OF the fall. costing. II Is claimed out
west. no less than SO, 500.
The southpaw Census.
Az for the other clubs they are
numerically well equipped with the
exception OF Washington that will KEEP
only Dolly Gray OF its left-handed
band.
The Athletics are there again with
Plank and Krause but Connie Mack
has sent Atkins back 10 the minors
The last mentioned got his start with
Bay City several years ago.
The Boston Redsox will take Kar.
ger, Collins and Thompson to Hot
Springs. The las; mentioned is an
alleged strike-out wonder from the
Syracuse club.
Jack OConnor at st. Louis will hang
to Bailey and Graham. with Waddell
too, II the RUDE STAYS sober and gets
started we'll Bailey is being touted
as the coming southpaw Of the league
Hughie Duffy at Chicago wiz have
the ever reliable Doc White. the
unlucky bill Burns and the doubt
full Sutor OF his 1909 squad, and is
taking a new lefty named Owen. last
year in the New England league.
George Stallings didn't have a left.
handler good enough 10 keep last sea
son, both Schmidt and Wilson fall.
ing down This year he will try
Vaughn, a mastodoE last year with
Louisville: Harry Wolter. the seven
day wonder who petered out with
Boston; Frill from the Connecticut
league and Clunn from Portsmouth,
Wa.
The Cleveland club hasn't had left
handler since Hess hzzled out but will
try three youngsters--Linke Of Column
bus. Gregg Of Spokane and Mitchell
of San Antonio. The last mentioned
looked promising ia a brief tryout
last fall