The Detroit times., 1912-03-19
FATE OF A PITCHER OR
TWO MAY Be DECIDED BY
TODAYS PERFORMANCE
If Destiny of Any Is In Doubt,
Here's Where 1t May
Be Settled
SECOND LOOK FOR MAC.
Little Fellow Who Hasn't Been
Attracting Much Attention
Is Good
SECOND LOOK FOR MAC.
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

BY RALPH L. YONKER.
MONROE, La. March ls.--lf there
is any pitcher about whose fate Man,
ager Jennings is not quite sure al
ready, he will probably have decided
II before this afternoons game 10
over.
In the two games played thus fer
IL was his evident intention to use
all the new men at least two innings
just TO see how they would act while
actually at work In the box. Further
more, IL looks as II he planned to uso
his best bets among the youngsters
against Topeka at Shreveport. Sun
day.
But If anybody made good enough
to deserve a second look before be-
ing shipped back north. this little man
McCorry, who pitched 10 balls for
three strike-outs In the second inn
ing, Saturday, was he.
Mac hasn't drawn much attention
because he is the smallest pitcher n
the bunch. That old feeling that
, man has TO be big TO be a pitcher has
hung around Mac like vapor. put
ting out every warmth OF sentiment
for the quiet little New York hoy.
But Mac has kept on going with hiS
mouth shut, and his ears open and
has worked steadily and hard. AS
far as deserving to make gCCd, IL
there is anyone who does Ii IL Nc
Gerry.
!, McCorry's wind-up resembles one
OF those 40-day clocks with the tor.
sion movement. He swings away
around to his right until he almost
faces first base and then springs back
whirling like the revolving door III
the Majestic building There Is lot
of motion besides that or his arm hat
helps shoot the ball.
II Is coincidence that McCorry,
one OF the pitchers from the Now
York State league. is quiet sober
fellow. while Moroney, the other man
from the same league, is the verbose
man of the squad.
Both are agreed that the New York
State league Is about the best Of the
minors. and that 1t Is mighty hard
TO get into a class good enough TO
get into It. But be that as II may, II
has produced two opposites in Mac
and Jim.
This southpaw has been caught up
in his room talking to himself. just
because he likes TO talk TO sensible
man and TO hear a sensible man talk.
He is the only one in the crowd who
can get into fairly respectable argu-
'ment with himself.
Arguing with somebody else,
though, is his long suit. He doesn't
care which side of the issue he Is
asked to take nor what he believes.
He'll change his announced belief any
day for the sake OF verbal scrap.
McCorry Is there with something
that Mike Maurer, the real kid OF tae
squad acks-self-confidence II is
not at all to be wondered at that Mike
was not cool in his first attempt TO
pitch for Boss Jennings.
Mike had sensation In last Satur
days game that few men will ever
experience The first time anything
entirely new Is undertaken is the last
that he feels that peculiar nervous
ness that plainly affected Mike when
ne first stood in the box as a sandlOt-
ter trying to make good with one CT
the best teams In the land.
II Mike fails to stick here this year
and goes to some minor league for
seasoning, 1t will be just what will
be needed to bring him to major
league caiiber. Mike surely seems 10
have the stun in that left arm OF his,
II he gets the baseball wisdom re-
,quired of a big Lacquer poured into
his think tank.
Once the Detroit boy gets his start
he ought to last good many years.
Heretofore his life has been ore OF
the best OF habits. He has always
been interested enough In athletic
sports to keep himself In excellent
shape. There was probably not a
man in better physical condition than
Mike when the bunch first got to-
gether here.
.-His- conduct in camp has been Of the
best. Take from one who has been
with him enough TO know. the dlssipa-
lions that Mike INDUCES In would de-
light the heart of the widest physical
torture crank. There haven't been
any.
Putting a player In a game some
times makes him look much worse
than in practice. Then again II
makes him look a whole lot better.
One OF the things that the man in
the game has to use a whole lot more
than the man in mere fielding prGc-
tice, is his head, especially that part
OF II where the trick bump shows.
Bill Louden is a man who improves
his reputation by his work In games.
In that clean-cut looking Uranium "
his there is evidently machine that
works out baseball with a nicely end
with CELEBRITY.
or course. game or two agaIDet
bunch OF school kids and some busl.
ers. cannot quite determine what a
mans headwork will be aga.ngt his
equals and superiors, but still 1. is
true. on the other hand, that the Inan
who can't use his head when with
kids and bushers certainly can't with
big leaguers.
Returning TO Bill, he handles him
self in a way that makes everything
count for him. II Is amusing vel 20
,htnk ~ hnkU he kfdded the Indus rim