Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-02
(Bv Billy Evansl


 A formidable pitching staff is very essential 10 the pennant-WHninG ball club. Picking the proper spots for that pitching stan is a very important task that falls to the manager Certain managers will get twice the results others do, out Of the same corps of twirlers. Thus a manager can great ly increase the strength of his pitch ing stan by exercising good judgment in making his selections.
 Not sc many years ago it was GUS tomary for the managers to work their pitchers in turn. Usually four men would get the honor of being selected zs the regulars, while two or three others would be kept as second string men, out of the long list of twirlers seeking a big league berth. It be- came the duty of the four regular men to officiate on the rubber every fourth day. Very seldom did a second string man get a chance to start a game. Only a camplete reversal of form on the part of some of the regulars, or unexpected injuries, ever gave one of the substitute twiriers a chance to hear the umpire announce his name as the pitcher before the start of the game. Relief duty was about all that was expected from the second-string beavers.
 Theories are Changed
 Nowadays very few managers cling to the theory of working the pitchers in regular turn. If a manager hap pens to have four great stars on his staff he naturally gives them the pre- ference, but usually shifts their turn so that their work will show to the best possible advantage. Winning ball games is the goal of every club leader He always seeks 10 attain such an end, and a 9 to s victory in a sloppy exhibition boosts his maIf- agerial stock more than l to o de feat in an sXtra-inning game. Defeat in brilliant extra-inning game simply means a waste of so much pitching energy of the best grade, a victory in a poor exhibition simply means that so much poor twirling has been put to the best possible use.
 Few managers have been more sue cessful than Connie Mack, and I know of no leader who juggies his pitching stan more than the silent general of the Athletics. During his highly sue cessful career as leader of the Chica- go White Sox Fielder Jones was con stantIy forced to depend on strategy rather than strength to return his club the winner. Much of the strength of his club was in his pitching staff. No manager could have got better re- suits from that stan than did Jones. No manager made so many changes in his twirling arrangement. u was well-known fact that you could never tell who was going to pitch for the Sox. although you always had an idea that it would be Walsh.
 Jones Was Wonder
 There is no getting away from the fact that Jones was a wonder when it came to getting every bit of ability possible. not only out of his pitchers. but out of every other member of the squad He always seemed 10 know when the derrick should be used on a faltering twirler He invariably se- Iected the proper spot to insert rtnch hitter, and fortune usually smil- ed on him, for the pinch hitter came through in a great majority of the cases He never appeared to be caught mapping by having some pitch er who had been working fine. sud denly blow up. It always seemed as if Jones had a pitcher all warmed up ready to take up the burden
 Ed Walsh, the great spitball pitcher of the Chicago team, is an iron man when if comes to standing work me spit ball is supposed to be very weak. ening On the arm, but it never seemed ,o have any bad effect on Walsh. Since Iouss left the Chicago team xvs1sb has done lot of work for