Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-04
USE R|GHTHANDERS
Jennings Will Depend on Them
for Pennant.
MAY DEVELOP NEW MEN
Southpaws Effective Against the
Tigers-Hughie Is Not
Worrying.

DETROIT. Mich. August fright.
handlers must pitch Detroit to a fourth
consecutive pennant.
The last Of Detroits veteran left,
handed pitchers has passed from the
| ranks in which he had served for
seven seasons.
Detroit can use Ed Killian no longer
Not because he has spent his best il
the pitching line. but because the I'll,
gers have no more use for a left.
handler. not this season at least.
IL Hughie jennings Will use another
left handed pitcher in the future hs
will develop one himself.
"Jud" Pernoll. the husky Oregonian
is undergoing the developing process
Pernoll works every morning and at.
| ternoon. His purpose is to discard
short delivery. a jerky sort OF mo.
ton with which he throws a ball and
| secure full swing to his arm.
This youngster may develop into a
good man. but he must have consid.
cradle more schooling.
Two years ago killian was good
against Chicago. Boston and Washing.
ton Last year he could still be used
against Washington and Boston with
success, but this season Washington
and Boston have been taken from his
list of victims. There is nothing more
for him to do in the American League
therefore Detroit released him to To.
ronto.
Boston started out this year In a bad
slump. The Red Sox looked like tail
enders for several weeks. They had a
batting order packed with left-handed
hitters. Consequently everybody was
| saving left-handed pitchers. using them
against Boston and beating the Hub
team.
Patsy Donovan looked about for right
handed batters. He secured enough of
them to break up the hoodoo that left
handed pitchers exercised over the Bos-
ton club. He got up a batting order
that was effective against lefthanders as
well as righthanders.
Washington has enough rght-handed
batters to make that club effective
against left-handed pitchers as well as
righthanders.
So as the foresight of the managers
gradually increased the usefulness of Ed
killian decreased. The more right hand
ed batters that were brought into the
league the more his worth dropped.
1t is true that Connie Mack recently
secured Lefty Russell, a left-handed
pitcher, from Baltimore. Also, that Con-
ME expects to use this young man this
year. Mack realizes that he still has
eleven games left with Detroit on his
schedule. He also remembers the sue
cess that Harry Krause had in pitching
like Russell. had just broken into the
league. The most effective pitcher Mack
can send against Detroit is Plank, and
he is a left-hander. Therefore, Mack
would naturally try to get a good left
handler for Detroit, il for no other club.
Still, If Mack can develop a man like
Plank out of Russell he will be valuable
against every kind of a club.
AT one time killian could be used
against nearly every club in the league.
That is when his iron nerve had gooo
arm to back it. The nerve is still there.
but the strength has left the arm. ana
nerve without strength will not make g
pitcher out of any man, or hold him q
place in the big leagues.
Hughie is not worrying about the lec4
of ft-handed pitchers on his club. Othe1
teams may save them for the Tigers, but
that is no reason why Hughie should
save them for other clubs as far az Id
can see.
Boston has a left-hander who can-egu
orally make good against Detroit. H1
name is Karger. New York has left&
handler who generally troubles Detro1o
His name is Vaughn. In Chicago II ID
DIR. White, in Philadelphia, Plank.
Killian could not be used on an AVERAGE
of more than every four weeks and he
club He has performed many notable
feats for the Tigers, and the one that ID
prominent came last September, when he
pitched two victories over the Boston club
in one afternoon i'm Boston. Detroit
needed the games to win the pennant. De-
troit won the flag the next day when Chi
cago defeated Philadelphia. Ed was a
mighty good pitcher i'm his day. but the
day Of left-handers is on the wane.