The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-08-04
SMALL PITCHING
STAFFS CARRIED
Modern Managers Rely on Fewer
but Dependable TWlrlers.
IDLEhESS PROVES INJURIOUS.
Foolish TO Have Many Slab Artists
While Most Of Them Sit on the
Beneh-Pilots In Big League Be-
ginning to Realize Folly Of 1t.

That long pitching strings are no
longer necessary and that four or five
dependa Bile men are worth two or
three times that number OF ordinary
twirlers is fact.
Previously the necessity of having
seven men. each one ready at all times
to take his turn at box. was a point
that was emphasized by managers,
And during last season. too. the major
league manager who did not have at
least six available men for the box
figured that he was heavily handicap
ped in the fight for the coveted bunt-
ing
wonderful work of the Pittsburg
pitchers last season and the now very
patent fact that four twirlers prac-
ticalIy did the brunt Of the work for
the Pirates have given managers and
owners cause for believing that 100
many pitchers are worth hardly as
much as none ar all
Last season. with Camnitz. Willis.
Maddox and Leitield performing in
their turn. the Pirates were up in the
race throughout the entire season. and
they, finally drew away easily from all
other competitors at the end. In pre-
yious years it was the pitching Of
Mordecai Brown. Pfeister, Overall
and Reulbach that won for the Cubs.
and every one for years has realized
that Christie Mathewson has been the
real mainstay OF the Giants. This
only goes TO show the value of one
good pitcher to a team. With four
dependable bOxmen the ordinary man
ager should be reasonably well salts
fed.
In 1909 the Red Sox had one Of the
biggest strings of pitchers in the coun-
try. They had Hall. Karger. Wood.
Cicotte, Matthews. Arellanes. Pape.
Wolter and Schiller at the seasons
end. while previously there were Ryan.
Chech. Steele and Morgan as members
Of the pitching corps. And yet had
Morgan pitched the ball for Boston
that he did for the Athletics and Young
had been retained. these two. with
Arellanes and one other reliable man
TO take his turn in the box. might east.
ly have beaten out both the Athletics
and Tigers and brought the pennant TO
Boston.
The better part OF the pitching for
.l,,h ~
men. Plank, Bender. Krause and Nor
gan. and they are doing the same thing
this yer Four or FIVE regular men
on any team would be worth double as
much as a string of nine or ten men /
with only one or two of them in first /
class pitching condition.
Too many pitchers are bindrance /
instead of a help. II Cicotte, Wood :
and WOlter had been in shape TO help j
out Arellanes last season the pitching 4
staff of the Red SOx would not have I
been the weakest In the American
league. But the wildness Of Wood, the .
injury TO Cicotte and the bad start that |
Wolter got in the spring handicapped !
the team so heavily that Arellanes was
forced TO do pretty nearly half the /
pitching for his team.
Managers and owners both are be- /
ginning to realize the folly Of keeping /
FIVE or six abIebodied men upon the
bench while the bulk OF the work is
left TO a couple Of good men and lot .
of second stringers. Travelling is eI-
pensive. and salaries today are AT
pretty high figure. If the work could
be got out of FIVE men the saving
both in travelling expenses, salary and
general efficiency would be consider
able and owners would be willing TO
tack snug slice on TO the compensa-
ton of the FIVE dependable men who
nnrlld On in and ln thnir ranIlIar srnmtS |