The Washington herald., 1912-12-28
Jack WarhOp, of New York
Americans, Now Strutting
Around Weighing III.
GAME AS THEY MAKE 'EM
highlander Flea Pitcher May Be the
Sensation of the Coming Season.
Other Sporting Comment.
Nv WILLIAM PEET.

JACK
New York Highlanders, and the gamest
little chap who ever wore toeplate.
called upon Owner Frank Farrell, OF the
New Workers, during the recent Amerl-
can League meeting in Chicago, making
a flying visit from his home in Freeport'
Ill. Farrell hardly recognized his Finger.
Never before weighing more than 10
pounds, Warhop in some unaccountaole
manner has added nearly thirty POUNDS
to his frame during the short space OF
two months. and when Farrell saw him
in the Windy City WARRIOR strutted
around weighing exactly Ill POUNDS.
The Nationals up to last summer al
WAYS found WARRIOR hard man to beat.
Even Grif's grand team OF lsl-. TO
whom all pitchers looked alike, had trou-
BILE beating WARRIOR on several occa-
EiOns
The writer recollects scoring a game
in New York last May, just before the
Nationals started their big winning
streak. Jack warhop was in the box for
the Highlanders- and up to the ninth
inning only a few scattered hits had
been made off the midget, who worked
with Gabby Street behind the bat. Inc
New Workers had accumulated COM
Portable lead. and Grif's bunch never
had a chance to win. Clyde Milan, al
ways a warm personal friend OF Gabby
Streets, came to the bat in the ninth
inning Up to this time Warhop had
tanned him twice and Clyde had popped
up an easy fly the third time. turning
to Street, he said:
Tell me what's coming, Gabby. need
hit TO patch up my batting average
I'm going to signal for three fast ones
waist high, and I'll bet you the cigars
YOU don't hit one out Of the infield,"
replied Gabby with a grin.
Sure enough, Warhop obeyed his catch
ers' orders and cut the plate. Milan took
three healthy swings and walked back to
the bench in disgust.
Discussing the incident after the game,
Milan said: You've got to hand II to
Warhop, he's got something on the ball.
I knew just what was coming and then
could not hit the pesky thing"
Chubby Mark Roth, who writes pieces
for the New York Globe, thinks that
Warhop will be one of the sensations Of
the league next season II the midget re-
ports weighing III pounds. SAYS Roth
in a recent story:
He would be one of he best pitchers
in the game If he had a little more
weight on him. II he was as big as
Ed Walsh, Jim Vaughn. or some others,
he would be busting them over so fast
that they would not see the pill coming
over the platter"
Such is the way many baseball fans
expressed it when Jack Warhop would
take the ball in his hand to try and
get it by the American League batters.
But Jack pitched more baseball than any
man on the Yankee club last season.
WARRIOR has said ON many occasions
when he would see big men strolling
across the field. Il would like to be as
Dig as that fellow
One day big Jim Vaughan was coming
from the clubhouse and Jack remarked
as he sat on the bench, Boys, II l was
As big as that guy coming over the
ield now, l would never lose a ball
game
When Warhop and Farrell talked in
Chicago the midget said: Il expect 10
throw a bomb into the camps of the
American League next season, If l get
in there weighing as much as l do now.
I tip the beam at III, and if things keep
on that way l will challenge Luther Nc
Carly or any Of those big fellows you
have around New York throwing their
mitts around
IF / had been heavier ] would have
had more strength and been able to get
more speed on the ball. 1 do not know
what is the cause of my Increase.
am surprised myself. I am as hard as
rock and hope to land at the training
camp at about rs, ready to go twenty
rounds with any of the other pitchers.
1T will not be long now before the
boys will be hitting them out. and try
ing to solve the hardest task Of all,
finding out Cobb's weakness. have
always said that the best thing to do
is to throw one up and trust to good
ness that he does not get more than a
base hit. Now don't forget and watch
me if I am in there with all this
weight"