The Washington herald., 1911-10-15

cOpyrtEht 1911 AL rights reserved
Ii the year around the baseball manager is a
n fisherman. In the summer time he is busy with
~ his team, but when the Of trying to
4 I mould twenty minds of varying degrees of
acuteness into big, free moving co-opera-
tive brain centre would enough to shatter his
own mentality he is fishing.
The bait is of all kinds and there many men to
help him bait the hook if he seeks assistance. The
prize for which he angles is ball players. Not all ball
players. for there players whom it would be as
worthless catch the gurgling robin the pi
ratica dogfsh both of which the impatient fisherman
consgns to their native element
When the baseball manager hooks a youngster Of
spirit, great fighting ability. quickness and mental
avidty, he is as happy the fisherman of fish who
has taken the last turn in his reel tuggng twist
ing. leapng six FOUNDER jumps above the surface.
The prize catches Of 1911 were few, but they were
sensational. The baseball aquarium has been ready
for a long time for occupants. More than
one to whom baseball is hobby and study has
felt that the rational pastime, in its professional
side, has not for seasons been producing the
"nine and ten Founders" that it had in some other
years.
In the season Of 1911 one sensation followed upon
another Some were less intensified than Others yet
of the combination of sensations was developed
the most sensational for a baseball champion
ship in the history of the sport
Who is the biggest find of 1911?
Is it Marquard, delayed fnd-something like a
delayed steal second to lapse into the vernacuar
of the game-or is it Alexander of Philadelphia, a
youthful Western recruit who only a year ago
pitching for the Syracuse club Of the New York State
League?
There may be some who will take issue with the
statement that Marquard lis a find of the year. If
they wish to be dry of sentiment a charred
bone is dry of perhaps they right But
. ATor1 ~ is 6r5 Fha oa-;ng 70 Tba
fact that he signed by the New York National
League club in 1908, can rob 1911 of the fact
that it was the year in which Marquard found him
self
Think of the wonderful transition in his career and
all in one season. too At the end Of the month of
September, 1910, occasionally referred Nc
Graws $1,000 lemon" and at the finish of the
of 1911 sharing the honors with Mathewson peer
less 'Matty," the who single handed vanQuished
his opponents in a championship for worlds series!
Why shouldn't he be proclaimed find of the year?
Look through his record. He has been opposed to
all of the best pitchers in his organization One by
one he has seen them appear before him and vanish
beaten. 1t is true that he too, has swallowed the
bitter dose of iefeat. 1t is medicine that none of
them escapes, at time another but his gulps
of the mixture which makes athletes shrug their
shoulders, clasp their hands and pull their heads
turtle like down within their collars have been few.
He met his greatest rival, Alexander, of Phadel-
phia in New York and vanquished him in a game
of extra innings. 1t a contest staged as if
Sardou-a baseball Sardou-had prepared the see
mario The time at hand when both the Philadel-
phia and New York teams must begin to show their
metle for the finish.
Philadelphia challenged, and challenged with no
unmStakable note in its defiance. New York ac-
cepted, and so these two, Alexander and Marquard,
the two pitchers about whom there had been more
grocery argument and more hotel lobby debate
than about any other two in the National League.
fought it before crowd Of frenzIed fans" who
sank back exhausted with wild note OF triumph when
New York won its game in the thirteenth inning and
Marquard assisted in winning it by properly placing
a sacrifice hit which brought home the winning run.
SuleDly the defeated team fell back upon its in
trenchments and' the victors began that onward
march toward the top which made their progress
watched Of all the world.
Marquard's Early Eclipse.
before in the major league. In 1910 he pitched
little that he failed get into the record book. All
tat tne secretary OF the league could say OF him
that he took part in thirteen games. He did not
pitch all OF those from beginning to finish. Sometimes
ne Went INTO the box TO help pitcher who tired
aho at other times to relieve a pitcher who had not
oeen strong enough to oppose successfully the attack
OF another team
IL not literally engaged by the New York team in
10 ~ appears that Marquard most assuredly did
NOT become find" until 1911 and thus he has
ealneu ms right to be brought forth into public gaze
S. i a Win little knot Of blue ribbon for his
Al his heels is Alexander ne ,-o. oh.otra5 -,
tne Fnnaoeiphia National League elub through the
neulum oi Wnat Is known as the draft The mod