The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
WILL MARTY O'TOOLE
 MAKE GOOD THAT s22,5OO7
Chucking Good Games But Losing Following Path of Marquafd
 and AKerkle.

It has probably been noticed in a group talking about the great pitch
 CTS of the game, that sopeone will ask, What about O1Toole?" Midsea- sons advent finds the question some what unanswered. Battling with ill., luck and the handicaps imposed up- on him by giittering advance notices the red-headed spitball pitcher has worked heroica1ly to justify the ex- penditure of $22, 500 by the Pittsburg club to secure his services.
 But the $22,5O0 Is the smallest part of it. That sum has come back through the box office. but what Pittsburg wanted more than anythin g else was a pitcher. They got a dan- dy, but he has been unsuccessful. Ee- hind him his club has been lame6t- ably weak on the attack. Most kof his defeats have been his best pitdh- ed games, an instance being whenI a home run off him by Schulte was the only run scored in a 12-inning game with the Cubs, probably the greatest game ever staged in Pittsburg.
 |. O'Toole has been a very cratic pitcher this season. One cannot go behind the facts. Like all the other Pittsburg pitchers, he was slow in control. He has pitched wonderful ball in streaks and his work has. been more spectacular than consistent. He has Weathered his trials bravely and
 is still plugging along, confident and eager to hit his winning stride. Skep- tics who ridiculed the outlay of the
 big sum to St. Paul for his services
 have tried to raise the "I-told-you-
 so,' but O'Toole has shown enough
 to furnish hundred arguments to the contrary.
 They may talk of Lefty Leifieid and Leon Ames and the hard luck of
 this pair of pitchers, but if any pitch
 CT in the world ever experienced
 tougher luck than Marty O'Toole he must have resorted to a rope and a rafter. After the fans have had their say about O'Toole one way and the other and after critics everywhere
 have pecked at him and harped or his hard luck and failing efforts te win a lot of games, it is a good idea of O'Toole by National league bats men. Rube Marquard. Frank Schaftze, Dick Hoblitzell and any number of leading lights have extolle6 the merits of O'Toole and have de clared him to be a wonderful pitch. CT.
 No two players suffered more from public criticism and unkind ridicule in their time than Rube Marquard ant Fred Merkle, both of the New York Giants. Marty o'Toole is ploddins along the road taken by these two ant is heading in the same direction tt fame. Poor Marquard was the but of millions of jokes after John T Brush parted with $11.000 to secure him from Indianapolis in 1909. Ht
 couldn't win. He didn't show any
 qualities. He wasn't nearly as sue,
 cessful as O'Toole has proved himsel to be. New York fans clamoree for his release Lemon" was hi. name He plodded along under han dicaps This year this same char won 19 consecutive victories for the Giants, equaling the record for al time for consecutive victories. He i. winning another pennant for Me, Graw. And so it is with Marty O'Toolt pitching good ball, but losing games He is being judged by his losses while his support is really to blame which should not be the case.