Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-02
BY J. ED GRILLo.

Corbin, the outnelder drafted from the
Akron club, from which Ralston was
purchased. undoubtedly gives just as
much promise as his team-mate. who is
TO join the Nationals shortly. Corbin,
who leads of for the Akron team, has
been hitting at terrific rate all season.
He is leading Ralston by many points.
but for some reason or other has been
overlooked by all the scouts excepting
Dick Padden.
Padden went to Akron to look Ralston
over and after satisfying himself as to
his ability was impressed with the good
work Corbin was doing. So he Travelled
about with the Akron team for week
or SO to satisfy himself as to Corbin's
ability. Corbin hit terriically. and Pad
den wired McAleer to put in draft
for Corbin.
In the last nineteen games played Cor
against Ralston's 1857. His hitting has
been SO consistently good that McAleer
thought it well to take a chance on
him. for hitters can always be used on
q ball team.
When the draft was put in for Lefty
George and Infielder Witt IL was known
that there would be eight or nine other
clubs after this pair. and in this no mis-
st. Louis Americans were lucky enough
to get George. who, according to Joe
Cantillon, has the making OF the best
left-hander in the business. Bussey, the
should develop. He has a penchant for
pitching double-headers and winning
them. Little is known here OF Bunt-
ing. the Fayetteville infielder, aside from
the fact that Padden looked him over
and recommended his being drafted. Dill,
the Edmonton pitcher, is a youngster
who comes highly recommended
And Dave Altizer is TO break back into
fast company. Clarke Griffith has drafted
him for Cincinnati. and no doubt he will
be given a chance there. for the Reds
are In need of inf1elders. and Dave has
been going at such a good clip this sea-
son for Minneapolis that on form he Zig
ures 10 be able to hold his own In the
National League.
1t would be a really wonderful achieve
ment IL the Nationals should give the
Athletics a dual dumNng in today's dou-
ble-header, though an even break will be
most satisfactory. And yet IL there were
anything In past performances or form
In base ball IL could be figured that the
Nationals have a good chance TO accom-
plish the feat
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games. and winning two games in a
single day. and then having Detroit win
two out Of three from the Athletics
makes the Nationals chances look rather
promising. but. OF course there Is moth
ing in this sort Of dope.
There is no doubt that much Of Connie
Mack's success has been due to the wis.,
dom he has displayed in using his pitch
ers Mack figures that Ii is foolish 10
put a pitcher against a team which he
Is not successful against. He therefore
never works Cy Morgan against the De-
troit team and but seldom pits Bender
against the Tigers. because the Indian
is not successful against Jennings team
He has lost but four games this season
and two Of these were taken by the
Tigers
In fact, Morgan is not worked very
much against the eastern teams. but he
Is pitted regularly against the two others
OF the western contingent. which are de-
cidedly weaker and which he can beat.
There is no regular turn for any of
Coombs, who is pitching remarkably well
and is just as successful against one team
as another
Connie Mack was asked what he
thought of his teams chances in the
worlds series with the Cubs.
We'll. the wise ones don't pick us
to win" was the reply. "Of course
IL is hard to pick such a series. Much
depends on the pitchers and we must
rely on Coombs and Bender to do our
heavy work against the Cubs"
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