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Barney Dreyfuss, the brains and leading spirit of the Pittsburgh base ball club, baseball men say, has nev- CT been known to publicly compli- ment player wearing a Pirate uni- form. It is one of his strict rules. He uses every precaution to keep his opinions of his players to himself. Of course Manager Clarke is his confi- dant but that is as far as the mat ter goes.
 But Dreyfuss, so a close friend of the Pittsburgh president says, recent ly broke that ironclad rule. It hap pened right after he arrived from St. Paul and announced the purchase of Marty O'Toole the pitcher, for $22,- 800, incidentally the highest price ever paid for baseball player.
 Dreyfuss was so overjoyed to think that he was the successful buyer that he became like the COW that jumped over the fence with a rail tied around her neck. Barney just simply couldn't keep his own opinions of O'Toole to himself. He let out his Pittsburgh cronies.
 1'v got the most wonderful pitch CT in the world," he is reported to have said. And when Barney makes a statement like that he means it. The Pittsburgh presidents reputation for Judging baseball material is as widespread as the nickname his club bears. Now it is up to Marty to prove Barney's statement.
 O'Toole, who looks every part the athlete, has not had his head turn ed by the f1attering remarks made since St. Paul decided to sell him to the Pirates. The 23-year-old young ster accepts the praise as a matter of course. Out in Pittsburgh, when O'Toole arrived several days ago, he was the centre of attra ction wherever he went. But the reception he re- celVed didn't necessitate his going to a matters to purchase new top piece. Marty says the reception he got more than surprised him, and the only way he can show his apprecia- tion is to make good" for Clarke.
 The spitball, the hardest kind of a ball to pitch, is O'Toole's speciality He can throw it in three different ways. O'Toole can make his "spitters" break in, out or drop, and that's where his value as a pitcher comes in. They are unusually deceptive to batters. The way O'Toole grooves" the ball over the plate is one of his reasons or effectiveness in the American As sociation there are numerous players who have seen years of service in the majors and have faced the world s greatest pitchers. Experience has taught them how to bat successfully Cl V IOOIt IldS U60u dDl6 lO IOOI them-Jimmy Williams, George Stone, Ham Hyatt-and others once feared by major league boxmen.
 I'm a spitball pitcher" said OToole. i've also got fast ball and a curve, but I like to use the spit ter the most, for I find that I can fool batters better on that ball than with any other. However, I like to mix them. You know pitcher can't serve cup one kind of ball to a bat CT all the time. The man at bat would soon get onto his delivery.
 ''I can't explain why I fool batters, I just simply fling the ball in my own fashion. In the American Asso- citation l got to know each batter's weakness the kind of ball he bit on. Now that I have a lot of new men to face I've got to learn a whole lot.
 Lots of people think all pitcher has got to do is simply to stand n the middle of the field, put all his strength behind the ball and then throw it. Pitching is a science, just like anything else, and the more a pitcher knows about the men who face him the easier is his task. I have been very fortunate in base ball and I hope that my luck will not desert me now that I have a chance to work in big league company. me; but every man must expect that if. he wants to be successful in base ball.'
 Marty has four brothers playing baseball Of the four Mike is the most prominent. He was recently drafted from Albany of the New York State League by the Tigers