The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-04
IS RUDE MARQUARD
ALEMON OR STAR?
MCGraw and Meyers Think He
viii Make Good in
Time.
Is QUESTION OF NERVE
In Minor League Clubs he Showed
Great Possibilities-Too Much
Expected Of Him.
by SAM CRANE.

q
New York. sept. 3.-wiu RUDE Mar
ounrd. the "gf1 900 beauty whose sole
claim % National league fame 50 tar
has been that moro money was pald
Tor him than Tor any other player. ever
amount To anything as a big league
mat is tho question that is bothering
the baseball fans Of the country: as
well a. Manager MeGraw, I III
. John r. Brush ct al, ct al, al no.
VIII the TAN. unEainly southpaW oe-
come a lemon or "a starr
McGraw has the idea that eNentu l
Marquard fork-har.d slings viii nave
a paralvziug effect on opposing bat1-
men. and that the Indianapolis pur-
chase will make National league slug
gers Of the biggest rep throw away
It ie wee small idca. perhaps. but
e. fingers in the little manager DIE
mind. nevertheless. 49,.
Is Marouard game or mas ne heei .
no bigger than pear ,,,...
rfas he eood red blood IN his veins
or are the corpuscles Of yellow
M IS up 90 Maruuard himself 70 an
am sure that the big HOosier would
make star pitcher IN any =. he
league club. Row, why can't ne DC
cqualiv successful In the majorsf
chief Meyers Of the Giants rs one %
Maruuards staunchest backerss ~
thinks he has rythinE 70 make one
OF the best pitchers who ever went
on me mound. The chief says he never
caught a pitcher who had more speed,
uuzzling shoots and curves than lne
same pulling proposition, huoe 10.
ruard. aud ne predicts most success
fuf biz league future for him -.
lack 81 control g.. Of course. Mar
.,r,sTd's one crave fault. and the only
reason Of HIS failure TO make goog- But
when up against the Texas le@Eus
teams in the south. tnis spI.nE. .,I
faet Marduard had almost perfect con-
troll and won nearly every game ne
pitched by EhJt-out scores.
Price n Handicap.
am Of the opinion that MarQuaI9
imarincs that too much rs eNpeSIeu
81 MIN. THAT immense price the New
york club paid for him has, been
handicap and n heavy burden TO him'
Scy, tbat baseball people in general
orpcct SO little from him. possibly ne
may regain the nerve that he apparent
~ has lost and. with chief Meyers;
am of the opinion that be can De ce-
,-ef,red into "a winning twirler.
mat NcGrav thinks so too Is shown
bv the fact that ne has refused otiers
Tor Marquard that were neS nee. al 5 o.
MIN Possibly another season IN SOM
minor league club would enaoiS w
big pitcher to regain ne .l, ~ IN
such demand as he was when the Nc"
York club secured him -
There are many pitchers. nov stars
81 thc first magnitude. who had some
,.rsf .irnfiar experiences 20 Marquard' e.
r'rrfatv Mathcwson had his own trou /,
bios in making the Giant team. 1lil
,vae not appreciated at his fun worm
fnr many months. In that connectloh
al uvfU be remembered that Horace Fo-
81 ,-hon MANAGER Of the Giants, put
sr.tt,. on frat base with the intention
~ MAKING tho best pitcher who ever
threw n ball u permanent guardian OF
tho initial sack -
V,-bffc eox was considered hopeless OF
gevoionucnt hut ComisScy stuck 70
bir, ard see what Walsh is today. Ana
there have been hundreds OF slrh''et
cases 49,. -
.rbere are hopes Of Vanguard. and II
t,. aoee set into the stride he showed
ir indianapolis. look out for him-thats
all