The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-14

He first attracted attention at Buck
nell University and his first profess
sional berth was on the Taunton
nine of the New England League
Twice the big fellow has pitched no.
/ hit games In 1908 he was credited
with 81 Of the Giants Victories
( He won more than two-thirds of the
games he pitched this year He is 81
! years old
Notwithstanding the confidence
still placed in him it is likely that he
| win have less of chance to figure
as a hero in the present series as his
big left-handed pitching mate,
"Rube' Marquard, and Matty's iun-
ior by years. has won champion
ship distinction. The young South
paw whose services cost McGraw
$1,000, proved a good investment
for it Is mainly due 10 his phenomo-
nal pitching that the Giants" ara
in position to face the Athletics -
for the title. He has won "a and lost
only 6 games this season
Marquards first professional play
was with the Waterloo team of the
Iowa State League Later he was
with the Canton Club of the Central
League and was drafted by the De-
troits, who turned him over to In
dianapolis. He proved the sensation
of the American Association and il
took the big price named to bring
him to New York in 1908. While he
possesses all kinds of speed and a
varied assortment of curves he was
almost a complete failure in his first
seasons, but McGraw stuck to him
and has been well rewarded.
Leon Ames, who has been on the
Giants pitching staff ever since
he jumped the New York State
League in 1904, and George R.
Wiltse, another former state Lacquer,
are the most likely candidates for
relief work in the box Otis Gran
dali is the fifth member of the staff
There are six of Connie Mack's
men who were with him when he
fought in vain for the 1905 flag,
They are Bender, Plank, Lord, Hart
sci, Murphy and Harry Davis. Head
and shoulders above them all stands
Chief" Bender, a red-skin of the
Chippewa tribe, who was sent to the
Carlisle school for his education and
promptly evinced his fondness for
the great American white man
game. After leaving college he join
ed the Harrisburg, Pa. team, and in
1908 was brought into the big
league by Connie Mack. He became
one of a famous quintette of twir-
lers which brought Philadelphia in
to its second league championship
in 1905, In the worlds series he was
which the Athletics" took from the
Giants that year On the other
hand, to him is charged the only de-
feat suffered by the Athletics" in
the series with Chicago last year,
though this came after he had al
lowed but one hit for eight innings
With the Indian in the box is, az
| was the case last year, Jack Coombs
| the real hero of the last series
| Coombs, known as Mack S man o
| IRON" won three straight games II
the 1910 series. feat which the
Giant Mathewson equaIed in 19o3'
Coombs is 27 years old He play
ed at Colby College, in Maine, ana
graduated at once into big league
company with the Athletics in 1906.
He is exactly the same height as his
pitching mate, Chief" Bender,
IT inch. He is a holder of records,
one of them being the famous "a
inning victory over Boston IN l9of
During the 1910 season he went %
innings at one stretch without let
ting an opposing club score on NM
Bender and Coombs will be called
upon it is believed to do most of the
pitching in the series at hand but as
the Giants are said to be weaker be-
fore left-handers It is possible that
the two "south-paws, Plank anG
Krause, will be given chance I"
distinguish themselves. Plank was
one of a trio of twrilres who won for
Philadelphia it's first taste OF leagec
championship in Mack's second year
Veteran though he is, al the age OF
SO. he is still able to do effective
work
In cold figures, the records of the
pitchers selected for the present Sc
ries is as follows:
NEW YORK GIANTS