The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-24
.ack Of Confidence Bars
Many From Big Leagues
lly Evans Says There Are Just as Good Players
in the Minors, but They Are
Not Always Game.
By Billy EU0ns

ability than players who are classed as
major league stars. 1t is almost impossi-
BILE TO understand why some OF these
majors. Some players have come 10 the
| big show from the bushes half dozen
, ;, times. only TO be @ returned with ~ l,t. thanks
| for baseball material annually report that
such and such player is easily the class
the chap who has been tried repeatedly
and failed to deliver
Natural ability is a wonderful asset,
NeFy Class of'fn n Wa9 Sh0G
call some pitcher. who in warming up
Ts apeed e erVe Saau and ter
good change Of pace Seeing the chap in
action for the first time would immedl-
ieR pitcher e0H.as 4 is ta diferent thing % however
when you step on the rubber in a real
game from warming UP in front of an
admiring grand stand, or pitching to the
players In batting practice.
lTHE real test calls for a display OF
something that is not needed in
practice-,contidence II is the PLAYER
with the heart of oak. the player who ts
confident he car, do things, that ~ Is worth 2r{
the real stars OF the game. the men IKE
Cobb. Wagner, LaJole, Mathewson and
the many other celebrities; do their Thot pe5s =
the reason they are classed as stars,
they do things out of the ordinary;
Pitchers, fear Cobb or La1oie great ,1.sn dea,
when the sacks arc empty They Know
both are stout OF heart. men who 90
Sa hest II 5e1 the pa pneeeh ehrsty
almost unhittable when single IS needed
70 send couple Of runs across @ the plate;
there there IS SpG nothing thing hard TO solve about Mat
ty. The Observation-Disclosures is a great
pitcher, who does his best when things
iook darkest. who always has something
in reserve to dish up to the batter.
+ have always regarded Rube oldrinE
of the Athletics as a wonderful player,
one Of the greatest In the business Yo,
il took the Rube several years to find
himself and Connie Mack had to show
him the way, OldripG from his very
debut in the American sal league S,s Was Lack S'a y
confidence; he didn't think he WAS one
third as good player as he really was wa,
oldring took things to heart too easaiy ~,
| and allowed criticism to affect him en-
tIrely too much. Not until Connie MacH
: hy his original system had impressed or
8 OldJing his greatness did that wondeIIu
, stunts that he was really capable Of 10
! day Oldring Is recognized as one or th'
9 greatest players in the game, simply ne'
dance galore. Is aggressive, but always II
t gentlcmanly way; ana is cohetA"''S Wv
ing the unexpected
I'm many cases the confidence OF young
= i pitchers is ruined through the polio!
r of taking them off the mound just a.
: soou as trouble looms up. know a Tor
n n,cr college star, now retired from base
hall. who always insisted that his iaiiur
y | 20 star In the major league WAS due u
= tba too-u,iick system OF derricking. Un
: fortunately for the player IN question. ~
ioined a club that had q chance for TN
Tnenriaut Because of his great proves
AZ a collcgian he was started IN eevers
% Nos oniy TO be taken out as soon a.
Sava a couple OF bases on balls o
niiowe5 a few hits. Naturally every tim
hn ysnt TO the rubber aftcrward he wa
innlsins AT the bench more than the plate
. | a,ensctin, 10 SEQ the signal OF distres
, banded kim at any minute
4 few years ago Willie M1tcneu OF LII
. / r1eyeIand club won ten straight games
Te ciose of the season, when all IN
ciuhs were at their best; IL was Pre-
diuted that Mitchell would be siar IN IN
Soliowing year, Great tnlniss Mits WerS mo,s,a ca
i, neaied OF him. Perhaps MitcneH aIlowe 2
!. tbis fact 10 worry him; He got away 7
uoT 1,roc he showed signs of faltering
ahg as q result lost his confidence WIFI
NNsi1cSsu has far more stun than man
D o1isLrau,s regarded as stars OF the game
> sou i meods is the od-time confidence
AZ ne Hs,,.a 70 return with the clover ifarr
y II - spi III charse There is no Enne
DAVIS ~ fha business than Harry DAVE
plays MIN iron, experience. He SHOVE
q , snx snnxnnAdenoe by his work IN tle "oi'1
= ar,ea after being out OIL the so"'o ~
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