The Detroit times., 1912-09-03
SELL A PITCHER, THEN
WORK HIM TO DEATH IS
MINOR LEAGUE SLOGAN
Hard To Get a Club To Use a
Sold Hurler With Proper
Care
CATCHER GIBSON BOOSTED
; Texas Writer Says That Detroit
Acquisition Is a
Wonder
CATCHER GIBSON BOOSTED
.Bv RALPH Z. YoNKER.

-Pitching is as per cent of base,
ball." says Frank J. Nayin. president
OF the Detroit baseball club.
That means that in looking up ma
terial for next year Nayin's scouts
have been given especially emphatic
instructions, II they needed them, to
Z watch out for the hurlers.
That means, too, that among the
men already purchased from minor
league clubs, those who are doing the
ihurling are being watched the most
closely.
q And the result OF this watching dis
hoses the fact that it Is hard propo-
IkItion indeed to buy a pitcher and
get him delivered from the minors TO
1.-THE major league club in good shape.
buy a pitcher from small club, the
complaint is, and he will be worked
tto death before he is delivered.
This man Troy, OF Adrian, Is an ex-
sample. He Is pitching great baseball,
hut he Is pitching too much OF II. He
has been worked hard and often. 1t
ID feared that when he is turned over
to the Tigers he will be nearly all in.
~
be: Work the sold huriers TO fraz-
zIe, for you'll never see them again.
When pitcher is bought the scout
swho last confers with him impresses
At on his mind that he must not over
do. This man Remneas, the young
spit-ball pitcher from Montana, for in
stance, was one pitcher who was
worked too hard before he was let
loose 10 Detroit by the Montana club
that owned him. II may not have
been this entirely that caused his
downfall, but he Is now back in Mon
tana. He is pitching good ball, too,
by the way.
The Tigers evidently have good
man in Gibson. the Dallas catcher,
purchased this year. The following
clipping was sent TO President Navin
BY Texas friend The article is not
merely a boost for Gibson. for the
young man had already been sold
when the story was written. II fol-
''Tn purchasing Gibson, Detroit has
grabbed the best catcher OF the 1912
Texas league He has easily been the
u.
Gibson has throwing arm like Jack
Onslow. like a shot from a rifle and
true to the spot His snap throw Is
accurate and 1t has been mere play
for Kellerman and Ems to tag the base
runners. Many times he has destroyed
perfect sacrifice or an infield hit
OF an opposing batter by double quick
work on the hit and perfect pegging
to first or second base. His handling
or pitchers has been excellent and
every twirler on the team accepts his
Judgment In field work Quick to
catch the move OF the opposition, he
has the stuff to check any strategy
they start and forces them to work in
the open. As a hitter he Is away
shove the average catcher and is SUI
perior to any In the Texas league
As base runner. Gibson has no
equal In this league. Fast on his feet.
well acquainted with the pitchers
wind Mp, he knows when To start. He
looks to be as good as any catcher
that has graduated from the Texas
league and by many of the fans over
the circuit Is picked to be ranked
alongside OF the leading catchers OF
the majors In season or two. This
is saying good deal, for Gardner has
sent such good ones UP as Stephens,
the mainstay of the ST Louis Browns:
Claude Berry, who was a star In the
American association and Pacific
league; Jack Onslow with the Detroit
Tigers, and other catchers who have
received their diplomas here. Gibson
Is ambitious and willing worker and