The Detroit times., 1912-07-01
Uy EXPECTS TO. Be
MEANING PITCHER
AGAIN In SHORT TIME
Tiger Star is Having His Arm
Rubbed for First Time
Since Playing Ball
CAUGHT COLD IN FLINGER
This Has Made His Slow Ball
Almost Useless to the
Frenchman
CAUGHT COLD IN FINGER
~ RALPH .. YoNKER.

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Jean Dubuc, by gar, she expect ina
he'll be a nine-inning pitcher again
noon.
For the last three or four game
Dubuc, the star recruit hurler OF tht
American league, has been keeplne
his feet on the ground until the ma
frames and then has climbed IN tnt
cage and sailed all around Navln neiu
in his big balloon.
Jean has never been an airman De
fore and he never expects TO be again
Dubuo's arm has been on. He him
self doesn't know exactly what's the
matter with II, but he thinks that ne
caught cold in it. He says that !,
doesn't feel any different after eigh'
innings of pitching than II does when
he starts a game for the simple reason
that Il hasn't felt right at all for sew
eral weeks.
John. for the first time since he
has been a pitcher, Is having his arm
rubbed. He is one of the very few
bic league pitchers (perhaps the only
one). who doesn't take advantage oil
q trainer 10 have his arm massaged
after game Jean has never be
lieved I'm that: that tender nursing
hasn't appealed TO him. But at last
he has come TO IL.
From now on. until his finger feels
right again at least, Dubuc is going TO
have the steam roller pummel his arm
after he pitches.
John says that he hasn't had a
thing for weeks, and that his slow ball
has been almost useless TO him.
Il will be remembered that Dubuc's
eastern trip and his work here before
the present at-home stand showed no
signs OF his not being able TO pitch
the regulation length of game. Jean
Is anxious TO get his arm in shape so
that he can come back and prove to
his critics that this eight-inning stunt
OF his is only temporary.
Nor is John at all superstitious, but
he wants to get on the road again 10
shake the jinx.'
II Is not always possible to be fair
10 players They are often criticised
when they should be praised.
Del Gamer furnishes an example OF
the man who has been unfavorably
commented upon when he should have
been getting the plaudits Of the fans.
There is no getting around the fact
that Gamer has not been playing good
baseball. Hughie jennings says that
he Is now not even good. minor
Lacquer.
And Del gets all this because he has
tried to play ball with an arm that
has panied him over since the season
started He has worked with his right
wrist In such condition that he
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most wrenohing his hand on and
hasn't been getting any credit for II.
Gamer admits now that his wrist
which has got so bad recently that he
has had TO quit the game, has hurt
him all the year. He has kept quiei
about this and has taken the gibes
thrown at him In the hope that his
wrist would improve.
Del Is q quiet, modest fellow. He
doesn't talk very much about himself
He has heard that he was false
alarm as q first baseman and he has
finally come To The conclusion that he
won't run the bluff that he Is all right
any more.
Here's sincerely hoping that hell be
back In the lineup again and show
that the promises he gave of rivaling
Hal Chase last year are to be fulfilled.
AS Is pretty well known, when
Gamers wrist healed after IL was
broken by one OF Jack Coomb's fast
ores last year, the bones didn't knit
together well. A callous formed, OBJ
structing their free movement. 1t is
now thought that the wrist must be
broken again and the bones reset or
this callous cut out. Nature was ex-
pected to dissipate this foreign forma-
ton in time, but there Is no sign of
its doing so.
The price of baseball has gone down
Judging by the amount Of II that was
dispensed at Navin field yesterday
for the regulation admission and rain
checks.
The postponement OF the game Sat
ltrday before the umpire had called
play ball" and the consequent double
leader yesterday would have been
enough for the money. But the Tigers
end White Sox thought that while
they were generous they might as we'll
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