The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-29

HOW SHALL DETROIT GET
PITCHERS? AN ANSWER
TO THIS IS VALUABLE
About Every Brand of Hurler
From Greenest Greene To
Big Lacquer Tried
COLLEGE MAN is COMING
This Rah-Rah Is the Only One
Not Tapped This Spring
By Tiges
COLLEGE MAN is COMING
BY RALPH l.. YONKER.
How shall Detroit get pitchers?
That Is a poser.


That Is a poser.
Since the time when the cry that
the Tigers catching stan was the
cause of its downfall in a worlds
series, the big nut to. crack has been
that with pitcher meat N II.
II is very probable and extremely
TO be hoped that the new pitchers
that grace the Tiger payroll now will
develop into stars. II Is more than
POSSIBLE and also much TO be desired
that they at least begin pitching their
best ball when the Tiges are hitting
behind them.
But the showing TO date is rather
6lsCcuraging. AS the Tiger hitters
have not been at their best. so their
opponents shouldn't have been going
at top speed Thus II should have
been easier for Tiger hurlers to win
games in the past than II will be to
win them in the future,
Granted that what we need now Is
pitching material. where shall Presi-
dent Navin and his bankroll go TO
get 1t?
Quit fooling with the kids from the
lots and get the old, experienced men,
quotes the sage Look at Maurer
What possibility was there for this
boy, taken from an amateur team, TO
make good? asks the wise one. Why
bother with youngsters like Remneas!
He showed his greenness. Get out
with big roll of money and buy up
somebody who Is already great
pitcher. Never mind looking TO the
future We need new great pitcher
now
Thus says the fan OF the old school,
who wants 10 see the experienced
graduate in the Tiger ranks
Then Bill Burns, measuring exactly
M 10 the standard named, counted by
every body as an Al man. with all
kinds of big leagues experience. doubly
anxious to make good with the Tigers,
PITCHER a game like that OF yesterday
with the Sox at Navin field Eleven
hits and then retirement in six Sox
innings is as funny as crutch BIN
couldn't fall asleep: he had 10 protect
his bean from bingles SO the cause
OF defeat cannot be laid TO his reputa.
tion for siestas.
After a pause to reflect on tn
mutability of fate. or why does
southpaw throw with his left hand, or
Is the bark of hot dog worse than
bite or something like that--the
adherent OF the postgraduate school
OF applied pitching tips back his KEEL
lev and scratches the back OF head
where he is beginning to grow bald
from anxiety.
Then hobs up the vice versa, tho
man who is always on he other side
OF the argument-and he has his say.
u Is something like this:
Why waste time, money and games
trying to bring back old-tinsers who
have seen their day? II they do come
back they have only year or two
anyway And il is very likely thG
they can't come back Look at Bill
Burns, See the game he pitched yes
terday!
Take shot at a kid o. two. Get
youngster Find an Alexander the
Great. Pick up Vean Gregg! That's
the way Connie Mack makes his team
Young blood, Young blood.
Whereupon the black and yellow
ghosts OF Maurer and Remneas slide
cut before the hapless adviser and he
shrinks into obscurity.
But there is another course Watch
minor leaguers and cop them as they
appear above the sea that engulfs the
mediocre Easy The releases Of
Wiley Taylor. Eddie LATTE and Bill
McCorry. show that
Still another chance Take a long
shot on hndinMg RUDE Waddell,
The echo OF eccentric Jim Moroney's
high.keyed voice comes screeching
back from Chicago TO drown the senti.
ment.
There is only one kind OF pitcher
that the Tigers have not tried this
year in their efforts TO get hurlers of
quality That Is the college kind. One
OF these is TO report, when Soldier
Hyatt comes from West Point
The Tigers have seven or eight
scouts securing the country for likely
material Two OF the wisest men in
the battery business, Jim Mcclure
and Joe Sugden, go south for six
weeks with the youngsters TO show
them lot they don't know about the
game.
There seems to be considerable ILL.,
fortune in the Tigers efforts to get
In line with the right kind OF material.
Either that, or there Is a whole lot OF
trouble in the right kind OF material
getting started.
In the meantime, President Navin