The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-22
ADVENT or
HARDIN
HER Aided.

ADVENT an, club this spring
HARDIN recommends hin
hEHALDED. most effectively Il
the baseball ex
pert Hardin is "a pitcher who has
speed. His fast ball Is his main
reliance and n must be peach. Il
lone is tO credit any of the statements
OF those who saw him. Gland Blink
STARK. the Detroiter who hrstbased
FOR tie Rock Island team FOR which
Hardin pitched last year. is the man
who recommended him 10 Detroit and
az whose advice the local club paid
over 5000 for his release And
Claud believes be handed President
Natin live one
Last year was Hardins first in
league bah said Stark the other day.
'iie was "a star with Us in a month
! Green OF course ne was, bur he had
enough speed 10 get away with any
lack OF seasoning. How he could
steam them IN. and his fast ball had
mere than a break on it. We called u
Ia sweep.
After / had told Mr.. Navin about
1 him. Bob Lowe dropped in on us 10
watch him work. lie didn't know
/ Bob was there bur he acted like a
hen I'M panic that day. He couldn't
put he ball over the plate and walk.
cd a lOt OF men They got some lucky
hits and We didn't give him very good
support. But the other team was just
as bad Il was Dubuque. il | recall
IL rightly. and the score ar the finish
was J : 20 II or something like that.
Rock Island won. bur thought it was
all OF with Hardin. Lowe. though,
knew that lack OF control wasn't Har-
din's fault as a rule and he did see
the steam the boy had. The deal by
which Detroit got him was closed right
after he had pitched his worst game
OF the whole var
When some OF the older PLAYERS
on the team saw the chance that Har-
din had TO make good with the Tig.
ers, we gave him all the attention We
could We told him pointers about
how 10 field his position and one OF
our pitchers who had a swell slow
ball gave him that We encouraged
him 70 use the slow one and 10 work
on his curve in games where We hac
given him good lead and. believe
me. there were plenty OF them. Tor
nobody ever got many runs of Har-
din when he was al himself. and
things got pretty easy for us when
We had the pennant cinched. Hardin
made a lot OF progress. Whether he
made enough 10 qualify for Detroit
this year remains TO be seen. But,
II Hughie Jennings is so fixed that
he won't need Hardin this year and
decides 10 place him in some first
class club in the minors for another
year I'm willing 10 90 on record with
the prediction that he'll come back
ripe as a cherry and ready 70 take
his turn on the firing line twice 4
week in the biggest league in the
world
And mark ny words, I'm not surs
he won't be doing that very thing II
1910, either"
Aside from the fact that il Is alb
solutely certain that the Zbyszko-Fen
I by match Will be wrestled in Detroit
/ Robert Reakes admits that there i:
great doubt regarding the identity Of
the city that viii see the Pole and the
( Michigander 90 to H.
AS we take il after the thorough pc
rusal OF the auto racing rules. the
competing cars in the events OF 1871,
will be- strictly stock models with the
exception Of horse power. equipment
and some other minor details.
Now If Charlie Murphy Of the Chi
cago Cubs will only try to break the
record of the St Louis man who STAY
cd under water three minutes and sis
seconds. what a fine thing IL viii be
for the national game.
Since Mr.. Damn Of Ann Arbor
cleaned np with all the local skaters
his name has become a household
word with players OF hard-luck hands
81 the Harmonic.
That Great Western circuit lineup
makes the old Grand look like joke
$40 far as money and racing are con
cerned. The withdrawal OF Detroit
would about blow The latter organ
izatiou
Here's venturing the guess that the
1910 worlds series is going 10 be a
lot more comfortable for the specta-
tors than that OF any OF the last three
seasons. even n IT is played In iht
second half OF October The second
week OF that month has seemed latel
10 De- its worst