Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-28
johnson Expected to Show Better Form in Game Against Atheti
SCOUT KAHOE RETURNS FROM
TRIP SOUTH EMPTY-HANDED
Does Not See an Outfielder Who Would
Help Nationals Teams Showing
to Date Below Standard.

field 1t is not unlikely that a deal OF
some kind will be made shortly WHEREBY
the locals will secure an outfield % v;om
one of the other clubs in this Ieague,
and in the meantime Scout Kahoe is sun
busy trying to find a suitable man or
two among the minor league clubs.
| Christy Mathewson differs from the
| late Addie Joss as to the value OF
| pitcher to a base ball team. Shortly be-
fore his death Joss made the assertion
| that a pitcher was 80 per cent OF the
strength of club.
In a recent magazine article Mathew
| son cuts this in two, and then whacks
| it up again. In substance, Matty
| says:
"A pitchers value to a club is al
| most entirely defensive. Therefore, his
efficiency could at best, not be over so
per cent. figuring the attacking power
| of a team half it's value and it's defense
| so per cent, TOO. But there are eight
other men on the team. besides the
pitcher on the defense. and none
knows 1t better than the twirler him
self. good pitcher will be worth so
per cent of the defense to club. That
is. about 80 per cent to the team
itself"
Matty's about right, although per-
hapS it's a shade stronger than he puts
it. Without the run makers. no pitch
er can win, shown by the case of
Leon Ames. who pitched thirty consecu-
tive innings without permitting run,
and yet was unable to win
Mere defense doesn't win games-it
avoids defeat.
Argument as to the nature of the play
by which Detroit retired three men Of
the Browns in one inning at Detroit Mon
day may be dismissed. The performance
did not constitute a triple play in the
scoring sense, although it was triple
| out. 1t gets no place in the record be-
cause one of the runners was automati-
cally retired and not put out by a field
ing or defensive effort. Only two put
outs can be credited to opposing PLAYERS
which precudes the possibility Of scoring
a triple play In the accepted sense.
Many arguments have arisen as to how
| the hit which started the play came to
be called an enfield fly" by the UNI
of the hit, an extremely high pop, which
| Moriarty ran in to take. After the play
had been called by the umpire, the wind
carried the ball past the infield on to the
ANY time Cleveland hasn't got some
thing to whine over Ole Nose goes down
to the lake front and throws stones at the
breakwater Now it's over the efforts of
the players on other teams to capture the
angora of one Joe Jackson that the Nap
town people are weeping sad tears The
horrid old-timers are trying to get Joes
nerve. but how that sterling athlete has
told them all to go hence and declared
that they couldn't scare him. Isn't that
all to the Dockstader?
Base ball has come into its own at last.
1t is now officially a science. And it was
the downtrodden common council OF Pitts
burg that came right to the front and
pushed base ball right UP with the other
arts and sciences
Barney Dreyfuss wanted piece of
Schenley Park to enlarge the outf1eld Of
Forbes field, but under the grant Of the
park to the city it could be used only for
park purposes or for the furthering Of
arts and science"
The council was perfectly willing to
grant the land. but was a little in doubt
as to whether base ball came under this
provision. The city solicitor told the coun-
Gil that it was entirely up to that body
! to decide the question and the aldermen
gleefully put on their o. *. that base ball
is science.