Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-18

coed pitohing is the chief cement Of
- success in any team Several notable
examples Of THAI could be pointed out
ln both American and National leagues.
but We have one or two nearer home. IL
omaha were stronger Ia the rox. with the
remAinder Of the team q has, II would be
nearer nrst than seventh place. Sioux
city. however. is the example We had
chiefly In mind Last year the Sioux BE-
~6arle all bat invincib,e with an effective
staff o. pitchers. at the head OF Which was
o roole. winning nineteen ana losing but
Eve games. and Hammond. winning n ne
teen and losing but nine. Tbs year that
staff OF pitchers Is gone. All save wilson,
while the rest OF the team is little changed
Yet Il is having a hard tine staying n
frst division. So Il goes. Il IL our firm
belief that in many cases pitchers 90 not
get enough actual work 70 kesp them Ia
the best OF form; that the average team
carries too many pitchers. This may be
explained on the theory-nore In the ma
3ors than the rninors-of the fierce rivalry
TO set and hold promising material why
should pitchers work only a third or fourth
as much today as they did years agof OF
course no one would want pitchers to do
nowadays what Radbourne do when he
pitched twenty-four successive games. But
~ might be noted that be won than al.
or even 70 DO what Bobby Caruthers and
Dave Footz did the last year they were
with the St. Louis Browns-alternate Almost
day in and day out between the box end
right field But they held their team in
first place and made 81 the "four-time win
ners." and each man ba;ted away up above
.Sa Is the pace swiftsr for the modern
day pitcher7 II 20. why ana how? In
many ways It IL not as swift. He has the
benefit OF the foul strike rule and the four
ball system. which his 'forefaihsrs" did
not have And you can seldom find q
pitcher who even thinks that he ought TO
bat. Lee alone hit in the 800 class. A minor
league team. in our judgment. should never
carry more than i've pitchers, and one OF
them should be n good utility maa. Let
the young men have more work snd then II
they DO not come TO taw let them 60 The
nAnces OF minor league base ball do not
Justify carrying from six 20 eight pitchers.
nor q man over five. The idea that a
pitcher cannot work in more than ore game
or two at the NEST = week Il rot. Take
the best pitchers in the maiorh. they are
the ones who DO the most work Look at
TIE record Of Miner Brown Of christy
MAInfMN0Us Oh L1 " assn anu A1t s@A4a
back Of old cy Young.
II there wus any doubt Of the Cubs want
sng TO win another pennant Il must have
been dispelIed by that wholesale Cub Dos
ron deal, whereby each team let go Of four
players. The sensational feature Of the
trade. Of course. was that n Involved
SSohnny Killing. who had been the Cubs
masnstay behind the bat since 1900. next
20 Chance being the oldest man In point
Of service on the team But u is not
strange that Murphy wanted 10 trade King
when II Il known that King has let II Be
distinctly understood that this Is his last
year IN the game. In addition 70 this he
had let down in his work. Yet there Is
many a doubt that King IL either all In
or viii quit after this year. There haS
been bad feeling between him and The own
ershlp since 1909. the year he played hockey
and the Cubs lost the pennant Yet the
deal was a shock TO sentiment for II seems
unnatural TO think OF the Cubs without
their Killing Probably there II something
20 the theory Of iis succeeding Tenney as
manager Of the BeAneaters In case the lat
Ger does not make good. Who could make
800 with the powers that be- at Boston
n Il difficult to tell Everybody may have
his own guess as TO whether Boston or the
Cubs got the better of the deal. What the
Cubs were after. they seem 20 have got
namely. coed for center field 20 let Artie
Holman supplant Manager Chance at trst'
since he may be outeof It the rest OF the
season
The last trip Of the Rourkes abroad was,
Of course. disappointing. like the one De
fore IL. only not as much so. They won
shis last time I'VE out Of thirteen games.
But they should get down 70 winning
streak now. for they have passed over the
eyak OF their hard times. 50 far as roao
Iork soea They have the majority OF the
rlemainfng games at home We are still OF
the belief that with another strong pitcher
or two this tesm would soon go into Iirs'
,,,xss,ou ana may anyway. There have been
many keen disappointmenss In the box 'nis
wear The very men Of whom most was
,,.,,,r.,lx expected. tidg,ng from their past
records. have done least
Detroit is doing exactly what GOOD
nav ola fans expected Il to % as soon as
,ha first keen edge wore off It's young
A.,ous IN the box Its slump Is not.
E,rstore surprising Not only was the
- n,avtnr ahead Of it's class. but the
Athletic bridegrooms found II very difficult
20 Get wen started. or course. the Tigers
are not necessarily out Of the race yet;
,bev are not even out OF first place. but
..bev are getting out rapidly.
Russell Ford. the young Highlander. did
a thing 10 Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford
which few pitchers could ever hope to do. Il
was in the ninth. with two Tigers on base
and only one out. when Ford famed both
these titanic sluggers. His pitching keeps
him Al the top and Is helping vastly to
reiuvenate New York.
There never was a prestier race than the
one now on between New York and Chi
caro. The Cubs. as usual are badly Grip
Piled. having been deprived most OF the
season OF Evers' and Chances services
and may be most % the remainder. But they
are sun the old warriors. fighting every
inch Of the way
The vagaries OF base ball were shown
when Topeka took three successive games
from sioux City. a pennant contender. ard
right on the heels OF that Omaha cams
along and took three straight from To