The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
HARD SEASON
FOR JEAN DUBUC
Star Of Jennings Fingers
viii Have Tough Row
to Hoe.
THREE REASONS WHY
May Be That Canuck will Have the
Same Experience as Tex
Covington.
THREE REASONS WHY

II Jean Dubuc signs with the Tigers for
the season 1913 as hurler. the coming
year will be the hardest in his base.
ball career. says Ralph Yonker, in tho
Detroit Times.
He will have many handicaps to face
Here are three OF them:
Few first year phenomenal players
have failed to crack during their sec,
ond or third year IN the majors.
The player who holds out faces the
same sort Of an obstacle to his making
good that the player who cost his clut
$500 or $1,000. or whatever the enor,
nous figure may be.
Jean viii have to bear the brunt Of
the attack in 1913 as far as pitching
goes. unless the old-timers pick up great
| ly or some new Dubuc shows up among
! tie recruits.
In the matter of being a first year
| phenom, Jean has this much to encour.
age him: The season of 1872 was really
not his first experience in the big leagues
as he was with Cincinnati before join.
| ing Detroit.
But Detroit fans cannot help but won.
der II he will be another Covington. Gov
ington, IL will be remembered. was a
| martyr his first year here in 1911. He
| Won seven games and lost only one.
DuI lnt HtNI StdsOll. dlItT Ouk
like world beater against Kaler at
Cleveland in April. he quickly sank and
was finally transferred to Providence.
There Is this difference between Cow
ington and Dubuc which has to bear di-
rectly on the matter OF sticking after
the first year. Covington's force was his
speed: Dubuc's headliner IS his slow ball.
Covington never lost his speed. but at
the same time he never got the best
Of h. TS.
that resembles Joe Woods he creates
wonderful velocity. but he can't steer his
, creations with proper accuracy.
Here is another instance wherein the
two men are exactly opposite: While
! Covington has been working for a slow
J ball to go with his speed. Dubuc wants
more speed to make his change of pace
all the more effective.
Had Tex been able to cultivate properly
sort of knuckle ball that he was prac-
ticing down South last spring he would
have had a neat assortment, which, with
control. would have kept him in the big
tent.
Citing past history TO support the con-
tention that many first-year pitching
ThenOms crack early one can mention
King Cole. the Saginaw barber, who
stirred things in Chicago his first year
with the Cubs. He is now shaving Gus
hops.
Alexander the Great, of the Phillies
was the greatest in his first year. Babe
Adams. hero Of the 1909 worlds series
bases his claim to fame on the work OF
his first year in the majors.
Dubuc has this consolation: He will
have company in the baby wonder club
He 10 picked as the best of the American
League recruits of 1911, but Bedient and
Cashion are also worthy of notice.
Bedient's work in the worlds series
brought him fame and upon Cashion' $
work in 1918 depends much of the Ma
tionals' chance to get peek at the pen
nant.
Bedient won twenty and lost ten games
last year, Dubuc won seventeen and lost
ten. while Cashion. trying at the first of
the season to be an outfielder. won eleven
and lost six.
In the National League there were
Hendrix. Tesreau, Cheney and Robinson
among the buds.