The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-19
Ed Walsh Of the Chicago White
SoxShows Amazing Endurance
By w. J. Macbeth
By international News Service.


NJ EW YORK, May 1s.--A man. no
IN matter in what walk of life,
who can upset traditional laws
Of nature. Is worthy at least Of more
than passing regard. One who can
go on doing 1t year after year should
bo an object of universal wonder
AS such let us introduce Ed Walsh.
the mainstay of the Chicago Ameri-
can league clubs pitching staff.
Walsh Is one OF the most won
derful pitchers that the game has
ever developed. Should he become
permanently crippled tomorrow, 30
crippled that lie could never again
toss the little white sphere through
which he gained his fame, this re-
markable athlete would pass down
through history as one of the great
be linked with those OF Chrlsty
Mathewson and Cy Young, men who
cheated time and conserved their
cunning through twice the span OF an
ordinary pastimers day OF major
league usefulness.
In point of years OF service, Ed
Walsh has long way TO go TO equal
the unprecedented record OF Bostons
grand old man. Compared even with
Mathewson, the White Sox marvel is
still confronted with several years
In which he must deliver his pres
ent puzzling brand. Yet the fellow
seems equal to the task. lie Is every
bit as good at this writing as at any
time In his brilliant career and there
are those who hailed him three sea-
sons back as the most effective and
capable tosser in the game.
lust look what this veteran Is
I'll doing for Callahan's White Sox.
Single handed he put Chicago
pennon out to the front from the
seasons getaway. or the first eish-
teen games played. Walsh worked In
nine. lie didn't pitch the full time
in each, but those he didn't start
were the ones that really proved the
hardest tests. He was called upon
to save tile day when como stnble-
mate wavered. Therein lies Walsh's
great value.
SINCE 1905 Walsh has pitched prac-
tlcally third OF all tho white Soxs
games. Fifty games in a season is
nothing for him. He'll turn off that
many on his own hook and finish
half as many more for less fortunate
mates, He won a pennant and
worlds championship for the White
Sox In 1906. He won Il city series
from the Cubs last fall No matter
what sort OF a club may be behind
him, Walsh Is always UP among the
lending pitchers OF the major leagues.
When his team finishes at all close
to the leaders II Is safo betting that
Walsh is tho leading pitcher OF his
company or mighty close 10 IT, IL
takes a near approach to shutout ball
TO stop this wonderful tosser in his
average game.
rs IL any wonder. then, that Charles
A. Comiskey regards Ed Walsh as
the greatest asset In baseball7
During the league meetings In this
city last December the Old Roman
daclared that be had Just one player
that he could not be induced TO part
with at any cost. walsh said
Comiskey. ''has done too much for my
club to become the subject OF trade.
or course couldn't trade him II I
wished. My city wouldn't stand for
IT, / might as we'll lock the gates as
10 part with him. But sentiment
aside. there Is not a player In the
world for whom would swap WALSH
no. not even the wonderful Ty
t-oth sonsi5ar Walsh today as