Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-08
SOUTHPAW PITCHERS WIN
Artists Flinging from the Pot Side
Not at All Slow.
NOTABLE EXAMPLES RECALLED
Experts Now Agree the Left-HanderH
Are Not 20 he Underrated in Com
troll, speed or other Quail
ties that Win Games.

NEW YORK, May lit is common ex-
preston in base ball that when a port
side pitcher goes through a game with
one or two bases on balls "he had good
control for a left-hander' AS a matter of
fact, when It comes down to that there
are some left-handers, and not by any
means a striking scarcity Of them, who
have quite as good control. day in and
day out as most right-handers. There are
not any southpaws who have good con-
troll ss Mathewson. but Mathewson has ex-
ceptionaly good control among right or
left-handers. The two left-handed pitchers
who have been In the box for the High
landers this season have put the ball over
the plate as well as any right-handsrs,
those two being Vaughn and Frill Vaughn
has shown noticeabiy good control
Another left-hander whose control Is
nearly always conspicuously good. for
right or left-hander. is Wiltse Of the
Giants. Control is his long suit. Plank
of the Athletics is a left-hander who has
nice control as rule, and so has Doc
White of the White sox. Among the left
handlers Of the olden days Lady Bald
win was possessed of effective command
of the ball. wildness was not among his
faults, while Matt Kilroy had fine control
ana EiO MOTIFS knew NOW W dhN SOhN fNN
the ball where he wanted to.
Pass a Good Many.
1t must be conceded, however. that the
very best control is shown by the right
handed pitchers Also among the pitchers
who did the most work last year two or
three left-handers were conspicuous by the
number Of balls they issued There was
Kill!an of the Tigers. for instance. In 17s
he
forty-nine passes to first, which Is an
average OF nearly three strolls game.
Nap Rucker of the Brooklyns gave 1o1
bases on balls in thirty-eight games last
year. which was almost three game.
Three bases on balls a game doesn't seem
so very many when you come TO think Of
il. not enough to harp on wildness. yet
Rucker. next to Killan. gave more bases
on balls a game than any leading big
league left-hander except Killian and Kar-
ger. @ sHQ
Mattern of the Boston Doves, in forty
seven games dispensed 10l promenades to
first base. IAifield, of the Pittsburgs, gave
only fifty-four in thirty-two games. Lush
of the Cardinals, provided sixty-nine walks
in thirty-four games. In 275 innings about
thirty games, last year, Plank walked bat
ters sixty-two times. an average of
fraction over two. WaddeI in go innings.
walked slightly over two men game.
Krause of the Athletics, averaged over two
to a game, forty-nine walks in 20 innings.
KiIlian averaged close TO three a game;
White less than two. and Karger, who was
the widest of any OF the leading south
paws over three. Karger gave twenty-five
bases on balls in sixty-eight innings.
Right Hand Champions.
BY comparison. the work of several of the
prominent right handlers is given; Matthew
son distributed only thirty-six bases on
balls in thirty-seven games. Brown gave
fifty three in fifty games. averaging
slightly over one a game to Matty's less
than one .Camnitz gave sixty-eight bases
in forty-one games. Smith of the White
Sox, gave seventy bases on balls in Ss5 in
nings; Mullen of the Detroits, seventy
eight In 800 innings; Young of the Cleve-
lands. fifty-nine in 2s6 innings; Bender OF
the Athletics, forty-five in $50 innings;
Walsh of the White sox, fifty in 2SO in
nings; Joss of the Clevelands, thirty-one in
242 innings; Johnson of the Washingtons,
eighty-four in 2s7 innings; warhop of the
Highlanders. eighty-one in 23s innings, and
Petty, of the Browns. fifty-three in 1893 in
nings.
Smith averaged less than two walks
game Mullen over two, Young less than
two, Bender less than two, Walsh less
than two. joss a good deal less than two.
johnson less than two, WARRIOR over three
and Petty over two. Wild Bill Donovan, a
right-hander was wilder than any OF the
pitchers of either kind named. He handed
out sixty bases on balls in 40 innings.
That is practically fifteen games, and sixty
walks for fifteen games is an average of
four to a game.