The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-09
GIANTS To GIVE
DALEY 4 TRIAL
Hard Worker With Springfield
Last Year and by No Means
Non Winner.
CONTROL OF THE BALL
GOOD FOR A MINOR
Will Be One of the First Squad
to Try Out the Diamond at
Marlin Springs.

To make ell parts of baseball club
uniform. It 10 essential that there
shall be effective pitcners as we'll as
effective batters ana competent field
efs.
To and the effective pitchers is one
OF the tasks which falls to the lot of
q manager. 1t Is practically out OF
the question to purchase the release
Of known first class pitcher from A
nfst class club. In the major league
history 1t As very seldom that any
thing of the kind has taken place.
Look up the text book and such will
be found the case.
10 true that the releases ef- s4sisass
pitchers who were presumed to have
efficiency have been sold. Usually the
party OF the second part. which pur-
chased the release. discovered before
the season had been older than a
wink that the party of the first part
knew what II was doing when Ii I'M
loaded the pitcher.
The best way TO get pitchers Is 10
20 after the better looking youngsters
In the minor leagues and keep after
them until luck happens to slip your
way with a real gem, In that man
ner Mathewson, McGinnity. ICY
Young. cuppy. good In hts time;
Walsh, Chesbro, most of the stars In
fact, have been unearthed from year
to year.
John j. McGraw has been working
that course for the last two or three
seasons. MoGraw. by the way has
been rather fortunate man with his
excursions into minor league territory.
He got Ames ana Wiitse from the
New York State League. and both Of
them have been great factors, now
and then. In winning for the New York
nine, especially Wiitse, a remarkably
consistent lefthander.
Among those who will receive
trial by the Giants this year Is
George Daley, who was with the
Springfield I'll ciun last season lie
was a very successful pitcher In the
Three Eye" League. He joined the
Giants at the end OF the summer. and
worked In one or two games when
the team was on the Western end
OF the circuit. He did not win his
games. but McGraw rked his action
and told him that he would be one
OF the youngsters VINO would receive
m early call in the spring TO get ou.
20 Texas and show what he could aos
Daley pitched thirty-nine games
with the Springfield cur. OF these ne
won twerty-three and lost eleven.
which would indicate that he is
good worker and can stand plenty OF
exercise, He was not So very wild.
as but fffy-four bases on balls were
charged against him. ana only six
Wild pitches,
lie hit fourteen hatters and struck
out 1852 men. AS batter ne did MO.
amount To much. yet stood higher
man gUr'Te Or tHU New YORK hafTers
In a relative sense. He average .lsI.
W hiie enc of the New YORK hatters
still owes the president OF the Ma
sionai League a. httie On AIS, batting
account.
Daley may not MAKE the team this
spring, but he seems To be worth a
trial, and that Is tho principle or
which McGraw Is working one 81
these days he may pick up another
star. The only way he VIII get one
u in being persistent in trying the
talent whien is asatia bic on the mar
-ket. Guess If the 81. Louis Ma
tional League Club only had known
what kind of a pitcher Mordecai
brewu would make ne would not have
been permitted to get away from that
organization. Merely shows that the
man who let him escape wasn't strong
on figuring the possibilities of young
players. Precious few youngsters get
away from McGraw II ne thinks that
they viii fit some day or another