The Detroit times., 1910-02-22
ADVENT or
HARDIN
HEH Aided.

ADVENT or club this spring.
HARDIN recommends him
/ hEHALDED. most effectively 10
the baseball ex-
pert. Hardin is pitcher who has
speed. His fast ball is his main
reliance and il must be peach. II
one is 10 credit any OF the statements
! OF those who saw him. Claud Blink"
Stark. the Detroiter who first-based
I for the Rock Island team FOR which
Hardin pitched last year. is the man
who recommended him TO Detroit and
at whose advice the local club paid
over $4,000 for his release. And
Claud believes he handed President
I Navin live one.
Last year was Hardin's first in
I league ball. said stark the other day.
He was a star with us in month.
I Green? OF course he was. but he had
enough speed to get away with any
[ lack of seasoning. How he could
steam them in. and his fast ball had
more than a break on it; We called IL
4 sweep.
After | had told Mr.. Navin about
him. Bob Lowe dropped in on us 10
watch him work lie didn't know
Bob was there but he acted like a
hen in a panic that day. He couldn't
put the ball over the plate and walk
ed 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 II was Dubuque. II | recall
Il rightly. and the score AZ the finish
was Is TO II or something like that
Rock Island won, but thought II was
all of with Hardin. Lowe though,
knew that lack OF control wasn't Har-
din's fault as rule and he did see
the steam the boy had The deal by
which Detroit got him was closed right
after he had pitched mis- 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 to field his position and one OF
our pitchers who had swell slow
ball gave him that. We encouraged
! him 10 use the slow one and 10 work
on his curve in games where We had
given him a good lead and. believe
me. there were plenty OF them, Tor
nobody ever got many runs on Har-
1 DIN when he was ar himself. tand
! 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 10 be seen But.
| If 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 go on record with
/ the prediction that he'll come back.
ripe as a cherry and ready TO take
This turn on the firing line twice a
week in the biggest league In the
world.
and mark my words I'm not sure
he won't be doing that very thing IN
/ 1910. either"
Aside from the fact that IL is alb
solutely certain that the ZbysZko-Fen-
! bv match will be wrestled in Detroit.
( Robert Reakes admits that there is
great doubt regarding the identity OF
I the CITY that will see the Pole and the
/ Michigander go 10 IT,
As We take II after the thorough pc
rusal OF the auto racing rules, the
competing cars In the events OF 1910
will be strictly stock models with the
exception OF horse power. equipment
and some other minor details.
Now II Charlie Murphy OF the Chit
cago Cubs will only try TO break the
record OF the st. Louis man who stay
ed under water three minutes and six
seconds. what a fine thing IL will be
for the national game
Since Mr.. Damn OF Ann Arbor
cleaned MP with all the local skaters
his name has become a household
word with players OF hard-luck hands
at the Harmonic
That Great Western circuit lineup
makes the old Grand look like Joke.
so far as money and racing are con-
cerned. The withdrawal OF Detroit
would about blow the latter organ
ization.
Here's venturing the guess that the
1910 worlds series IS going 10 be
lot more comfortable for the specta-
tors than that OF any OF the last three
seasons. even II IL IS played in The
second half OF October. The second
week OF that month has seemed fated
10 be its worst.
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