The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-16
PITCHERS LAST LONGER
THAN ANY OTHER PLAYERS
Tendency Of the Game is Toward
the Development Of More
Young Twirlers.
BATTING IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN

The development Of star pitchers Is
preceding at fearful pace. but the
development of star batsmen seems
10 be utterly at standstill. The way
things are going there will be regi-
ments of classy pitchers in few more
Years, while the art of batting will
die out as soon as the present crop Of
sturdy old hitters is extinct.
IL was VIII Hart, a few years ago,
who told an ambitious youngster to
train himself for n third baseman, not
n pitcher, because pitchers did not last,
whereas, infelders could play the
game for years and would always be
in demand Still, the modern pitcher,
with any sort OF good behavior, out
lasts the modern infelder.
How many men are now on the
Giants who were there when Mathew
son began? Big Six has seen legion
Of them come and go and is still good
for many years. Wiltse. lefthander.
has been pitching a long, long time.
and is still capable, though an old
idea was that q lefthanded pitcher
soon broke down.
Among the Highlanders Jack Chos-
bro only failed last summer after a
career that outwore most of the men
with whom he started playing ball.
Look through the other league teams
and see how the pitchers have out
lived the fielders. Wilhelm of Brook
Ign was pitching at college before any
man on the Dodger team, save Bill
Dahlen. the new manager put on a
uniform. Brown. the great pitcher of
the Cubs, has outlasted an army of in
and outfield stars
Clark Griffith pitched little league
and big for 20 years and could prob
ably work effectively again If he de-
sired.
How many of the Pittsburg have
longer careers than Lever, Philippi
and Willis. pitchers all three. and
still husky?
We all know that good old Cy
Young begins his twentieth year on
big league pitching i'm the coming
spring. Where is there man who
played i'm or outfield on the Cleveland
team of 1S9O-where Cy began-who
is now an active factor i'm the game
Bill Donovan of the Tigers was n
pitcher before most of the Detroits
were even minor league recruits.
Pitchers. instead of breaking early,
outlast their pals. Moreover, it seems
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quire the tricks of the old ones. while
the batters seem to fade into timidity
and oblivion. One thing seems evil
dent: that the modern batsmen, I'm
most cases, do not try to get the
pitchers goat the way the veterans
did. Today there are few goat get
ters but not many. The grim and
massive front put by Wagner. Craw-
ford and Lajoie scares many pitch
or, while the confidence and mocking
eagerness of Cobb also frightens them
These fellows act as the old timers
did. but most of the modern batsmen
simply stand at the plate i'm a hall
Apologize way, hoping against hope
that they may scratch out a single OF
draw a base on balls.
Confidence is everything. The mod
ern pitcher is chuckful of confidence
gally as "A yeggman, contemptuously
boastful. The modern batter, or &C
per cent of him, is afraid even to look
mean at the pitcher, but there is no.
body who will go up in the air Sc
quickly as a pitcher when you get hin
stung-there is no goat so easy tc
capture as that of the pitcher, if you
only show a little nerve.