The Washington herald., 1910-05-31
SCOUT" KAHOE DIGS UP
LIVE ONE FOR NATIONALS
Signs Promising Player but Refuses to Disclose Tden-
ity-SayS Mcclure, Pitcher, VIII Not Do

Oberhn and Groom, who pitched good
enough BAH 10 win any game. Lack or
hitting by the men behind Groom and
OoerHn caused the defeats.
This afternoon Walter Johnson takes a
fling at the Highlanders and will prob
ably be opposed by Jack Quinn. II Nc
Aleer's boys can get away with a vic
tory they Will be able to show an even
break in Gotham and that will help some.
There is no use denying the fact that
Russell Ford, who allowed the Nationals
but two hits yesterday. is a first-cIass
| twirler and likely u prove one Of the
sensations Of the American League this
year.
Mark Roth. Of the New York Globe.
recently had the following TO say Of
Ford:
Now many times a day do you suppose
questions are asked how the pitching
stan Of baseball club looks. and
whether such and such a club has a star
pitcher, one OF the brand that players
think they have the game won whenever
he starts in 10 pitch?
The Yankees have grabbed another
Matty. Russell Ford viii be that sure
[ II ne can continue TIE same work he has
done in the past four games. He has
won them all lie has proven that he has
all the manners pitcher must have 10
make star IN the big society Of base
ball
There is no doubt about his control
He holds runners on first when they get
on Ike a chicken 10 its mother He
studies his batters. puts on more steam
when IN a pinch. ana doesn't know what
/ the rattles mean.
Here is line on what Ford has accom-
| piished for the Yankees since he has been
/ getting his cakes and chops on the hilltop
grounds; He bounded right into popular
/ ity IN the game he pitched against the
| Athletics al Shibe Park April q In thar
/ game he shut out the White Elephants
! and struck out Harry Davis four times.
/ once IN a pinch fl the ninth inning.
/ Who does this sort OF a trick 10 Harry
| Davis? Ford had nine srrikeouts IN
/ that game. he did not hit a man. and
/ not one did he Pop" Weston 10 first
base. and the Connie Mack team secured
/ but five hits.
After the game the writer asked Billy
/ Evans, the umpire. what he thought OF
Ford, and here Is what Evans said.
/ They viii have fierce time getting
/ next 10 that fellow II he pitches the
same kind of ball he did to-day He is
/ a smooth, intelligent pitcher. and 7 never
/ worked behind a pitcher who performed
I any better than Ford. II ever a hurler
| had a bright future it's Russell Ford. "
Ford slammed them over the platter in
/ another game against the Athletics on
/ April y. He made Ave White Elephants
I beat the air out OF the base hit factory
/ in this game. and but three Of the Ath-
/ letics went 10 first base via the Pop"
I Weston route. That was more on balls
\ than he gave IN the four games ne has
/ pitched. Philadelphia got FIVE hits in
that game.
Ford can pitch against all clubs, as
/ was shown when he went against the
| Tigers on May Il. He put the whitewash
/ brush on Jennings team and the score
/ was 10 a horsecolIar. He made seven
Tiger hitters beat the air. and gave but
/ one base on balls. The jungle team got
/ four hits.
Ford pitched his fourth game on the
/ hill and he had St. Louis as the enter
/ tainers. He had nine strikeouts in this
/ game. and gave one base on balls. did not
/ hit any one, and did not spring a wild
pitch.
/ He has struck out tbirty-six men in
the forty-seven innings he has pitched.
/ Only eight men got free transportation.
/ showing that he has control Twenty
| five hits IS all that the opponents have
secured from Ford In the forty-seven
4 innings he has pitched. which IS about
/ an average OF five hits a game He did
/ not hit man or have a wild pitch.