Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-02-14
FIRST YEAR STARS
OFTEN FALL DOWN
Pitchers Showing Gradual I'm
provements Are High Salaried
Twirlers Today.

ST. Louis. Special: The fact mat tine
Browns developed more y%csrlines than
any of its rivals. in Balnngardner. Al
eXander. Wellman aud Pratt. has
caused much pleasure among local
rootcrs OF Hedges team, but OH the
other hand. many major league man
ayers are indulging i'm hopes and wor-
ryiny at the same time. They are the
managers of teams wuicn r%eJoiced i'm
the possession of phenomenal firSt-year
pitchers asst campaign.
They are hoping that the same phc-
MONS will come pack in 1913 and prove
To tie just as effective. but they arc
worrying for fear the juveniles will
follow the example of other Famous
onc-ye:ir pitchers and settle back into
m~ediocrity. There are /; number of
MlrlerS VIII" have gone through the
big league the first year as easily as
Luther Mccarthy would be at :: bunch
OF featherweights. but the pitchers
VIII" show gradual improvement are
the ones who are the big stars and
the high salaried mound men TODAY.
chriSty Mathewson. Bot Harmon,
Harry Sallce. Earl Hamilton. Joe
Wood. Walter Johnson, Mordecai
Brown. Jack Coonlbs. Ed Plank, Albert
Bender and Howard ClmlitZ are ex-
amples of the class referred to. Math-
ewson and johnson were about the
only ones to d" we'll during their first
year i'm fast company.
ole. Alexander. Chalmers. Adams.
Mitchell. Knapp. Gregg. d,ovington and
others farther back who have looked
like the best i'm the world i'm their i'm
auSural season. have disappointed i'm
later Years.
III ole. who WAS released this
winter. pitched the Cubs into "A cham
piorship and helped Brown win the
only game the Chicagoans We're able
to take from the Athletics in the
WORLDS series. He came back all right
in 1911. blu was traded to Pittsburgh.
and completely fizzled.
Babe Adams a Wonder.
Babe Adams was "a wonder i'm 1000
winning Is of is games. and featured
ne championship series against De-
trolt by capturing three OF the four
games the Pirates were able ia take
from Jennings men He has done
nothing sensational since. .honph lin
gering with the Pirates In the hope
that he viii round to form and brill
liancy which he Indicated when he
first came into the league.
Alexander and Chalmers put the
Phillles i'm the race in 1911. The latter
mas been a severe disappointment
since. re met with AN injury to his
arm which has stood HIM as an alibI
Tor ms poor work. Alexander also
Went poorly last year. and as ii result
enabled the Cincinnati Reds to PASS
n Quakers i'll their fight for prestige
IN the National league. Alexander is
sun a valuable asset. but sl,umped per-
ceptibly from the form shown in his
earlier trials.
Willie Mitchell, the southpaw secured
from Texas by the Maps. startled the
country by capturing 10 straight in his
season. Since then he has
endeavored to break even. and was
even relegated to Toledo last summer
IN a barter which brought Harry
lkrause back to the calcium of the big
BOYS. He Was taken back when krause
failed with Cleveland. and he prob
ably Will receive 81 trial the coming
season.
Several 1912 Stars.
Knapp and Gregg. other Nap stars OF
n season, have had their troubles.
n former was recently banished from
n big ring, while the southpaw. do
clared to be the best of his kind in
the business. has had plenty of trouble
getting by since his opening year.
Inc 1917 crop of first year stars in
cluees Bedient. O'Brien. Dubuc. Cash
Ion, Baumgardner. Mcconnell and
Brown in the American league. and
Lavender and Benton in the National
league: Bedient won 20 and lost 10.
Dubuc's record was IL to 10. while
Cashion captured II and dropped six.
Judging Bedient's work In the crucial
worlds series. he is likely to be a
repeater. Dubuc and Cashion are hard
ly as secure as the former, but never
theless h pair showed all wool and
r yard wide in a majority OF their i'm
portant tits. Hendrix. a rank bush
Lacquer the previous season. won -
and lost nine. while Cheney took 26
against 10 lost. and Tesreau won IL
and missed seven.