The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-06
TAKE PITCHERS
OUT TOO QUICK
Team Managers Too Sensitive
to the Cries From Bleachers,
Says Manhattan.
GOOD TWIRLERS ARE ALL
TEMPERATE AND STEADY
SaIlee, of Cardinals, Offers Ad-
vice to Youngsters With Big
League Ambitions.
BY MANHATTAN.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.--There has beer
some loose and unjustinable gossip about
Mathewson's present ability as pitcher
the tenor OF 1t being that he is has
been" So good a judge as Roger Bres-
| nahan says of the famous Giant;
| The big fellow has many more years oi
| good pitching In him. and ! only wish
we could get one like him on the Car
dinals."
The custom has grown upon managers
TO suddenly shift pitchers IL they hap
pen TO he batted hard. For that reason
ball teams are carrying more pitchers VI
comparison with the actual work that
they do on n ball field than they ever
did.
II pitchers who happen to be hit hard
being being Sc sent I to the bench Il might be that
the team would rally as quickly behind
him as II would behind q fresh pitcher;
and Ii has frequently been demonstrsted
In baseball that pitcher may be- hit hard
In one Inning and after that hold a team
| to almost nothing,
The policy which makes for the retire
be batted hard also tends 10 the destruA-
ton OF his confidence. Possibly ths
would have been less bearing upon an old
timer than II would upon youngster.
John McGraw Is slow to change a
pitcher who happens to be hit, for, the
reason that he wants the pitcher TO have
every oppor,unity TO help himself ,,ou ou'
When he notes that pitcher Us not
himself he Is likely 10 change In hurry
whether he is an old or young player,
There are days when the best pitchers
are less effective than usual.
Before II was baseball etiquette Ia have
almost as many pitchers on team as
there are all other players combined. the
time was when pitcher would be
raped for three OF four runs In the rath-
er early part OF the game and yet stick
through and win.
SOME managers are too sensitive 10 the
yowl from the blcachers- Spectators
have become too much accustomed 10 be
licve that the only relief In baseball Is
a change. Perhaps as good relief would
be To permit the pitcher 10 go through
now and then and trust to his ability and
that OF his fellow players to overcome
the lead OF the opponents,
"Cy'' Young once said 10 the writer:
AZ wouldn't have been old Cy IL II had
not been for Pat Tebeau. When be-
gan TO play ball with Cleveland and hap
poned 10 be batted In tho early part OF
the game Pat would walk over and say,
Keep 1t going. Wen catch 'em yet And
many time ,,. we did % eaten them, SecSnse Sesn
pulled out OF the box every time that
the other club made two or three runs
wouldn't have confidence enough TO
pitch myself
Good Pitchers Temperate.
Two youngsters, neither, two years in
professional baseball. hold the pitching
bonors In the two big leagues. They are
Van Gregg OF the Cleveland club In the
American league and Grover Cleveland
Alexander In the National.
Vans showing Is most creditable. He
won most Of the games with second d.
vision team behind him. II WAS only
very recently that tho Maps climbed into
the first division by winning nine straight
games, Alexander, on the other hand Is
backed by a team that has been at the
top all the season.
"Slim" Sanee OF the St Louis Cardi-
nails Is rated one OF the best pitchers.
You-auRht to Eat. Into colyersation