The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-05
VANGUARD IS GIANTS HOPE TO CAPTURE WORLD SERIES;
 OTHER PITCHERS RECORDS
By IRWIN M. HOWE (sfatistician for Clubs of Major Leagues)

there is stranger on the New York staff that may be given preference over either Ames, Crandall and Wiltse, as as- sistant to Big Six and Tesreau. This is Albert Demaree, who at the earnest
 request of the New York manager was
 sent to New York from Mobile just in time to make him eligible for the big
 show. He pitched s5 games for Mobile
 and that many of them were hard con-
 tests may be judged from the fact that they averaged little more than nine
 innings each. He held his opponents to
 214 hits in S1s innings, gave only 46 bases
 on balls and registered 23o strikeouts; 61
 runs were scored in 3l9 innings consider
 ably less than two per game. If Demaree 1 is not a good pitcher, minor league fig
 ures should be thrown away.
 Collins Ranks Second
 Among the slabmen of Boston. Ray
 Collins ranks an easy second to Wood. | Had not one-half the season passed be- fore he attained his true form, his work
 would have attracted much more atten- | ton from the fans. Since July l only 29
 runs have been scored off him in 14
 games He has defeated the Athletics three times, Washington once and Chi
 cago three times. The White Sox in- I, fcted the only defeat he has suffered from first division team since July l, when they won the game of August 26
 with Walsh on the slab. Collins has ex- cellent control as 80 bases on balls. hit
 batsman and no wild pitches in l64 in-
 nings show. Doyle. Meyers, Becker ana
 MerlSle will need be at their best when l they face Collins.
 l There is division of opinion among | those best posted concerning whom Man
 ager Stahl will select as the third man /, for his twirling corps. Some favor Hugh Bedient, with his terrific speed and good | x.rbi oth md
 his eel ball OBrien should give Tes-
 reau a good battle if they meet While
 he has lost F games to date, and Tes-
 reau only six, he has won as many as his New York rival Q6), finished many
 that were decided when he went on the
 slab, and has opposed at all times the best twirling the other teams in the
 league could furnish. Stahl has picked no
 soft spots to drop Buck" into.
 If O'Brien is not chosen as first aid to Wood and Collins, Bedient undoubt-
 edly will be. Slated for another season | in the minors, his class was discovered during the training trip, and he made
 good from the beginning. He has beaten
 the Athletics three times during the sea-
 son. and when the White Sox drove Wood | to the bench in game in July, he came
 on and stopped them short Because the | score was in favor of Boston when Wood was taken out, he was officially credited l His record this year shows two things 1 clearly. First, his ability to hold op- ponents to a few runs despite liberal allowance of hits, and second, the re- markable way in which he conserves his | strength
 More of Mathewson
 | Including the game of September l2, l Mathewson has appeared in 40 games, pitched 2S3 innings, the equivalent of 32 | t,;& l.ts.
 had scored 100 runs. While Wood allowed | IS free passes to first in B games, only | 30 men have walked result of Mattys l failure to get them over, and it is very
 probable that many of those were de- | liberately passed to reach less dan | gerous man.
 To show the extent to which the New l York star relies on his support as com | pared with Wood. he has famed only 114 men in 2S3 innings. while years ago the 1 strike out was his favorite method of
 disposing of bad actors.' On the date
 named, Mathewson was credited with 9S
 victories and charged with II defeats. In
 his other six starts he finished four
 games that were decided when he went | in and was twice taken out.
 1 Mathewson's various styles of delivery l have been so widely discussed that it is
 unnecessary to go over that subject here. | His terrific speed, his 'fadeway' drop | dHu HIS IeHldTkdDie aDfiltN to plBce tue | ball where the batsman does not like 1t, are nearly as well known the country over as the game itself
 Tesreau's Great Splitter Despite the great showing of Tesreau,
 Matty Is regarded by many we'll informed people as McGraw's chief reliance. His work against the Athletics last year dem onstrated that he required at least three days rest between games, and it is un- likely. therefore, that he will appear more than twice against the men from Boston. In Jeff Tesreau, the champions present the best "spitbalr pitcher in the Ma
 tional league. and his season record
 shows how extremely effective this style
 of delivery is when once mastered. That this style of pitching has never found favor in the ol1 league, and as result very little practice has been possible for National league batters, is the only reason that any suspicion whatever | should attach to the degree of skill which Tesreau has apparently reached. He has the physique and according to all reports. the disposition. to make a slabman second to none, but 1t Is not unreasonable for
 American league partisans to refuse to believe that he is now the equal of, say, Walsh until lie has appeared against