Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-04
O'TOOLE MADE GOOD
Pittsburgh Club Not Disap-
pointed in High-Priced Star.
SURE TO DO BETTER IN '13
Luck Was Against Him and Fans
Expected Too Much-Lost
Many Close Games.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOT SPRINGS Ark Anril ga,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. April Barney
Dreyfuss Stung!''
Marty O'Too1e Loses Another Camel!
How often in 1912 did these words
decorate sporting pages in big, black
head-letter type?
| How often did the fans say, Just as
thought
These million-dollar stars never make
good"
"OToole's boomer and Barney
stung, stinged, stang!''
The average fan doesn't analyze. SUI
perficial examination is enough for him.
Probably If q vote were taken in fam
dom. the majority would decide that
O'Toole failed to make good in 1912,
and this would prove the genus fan
poor observer.
Your fan seldom goes beyond the fact,
If the home team loses, no matter how
well played the game, it is rotten" If
the team wins, 1T is great game
o'Too1e Made Good.
Cold analysis proves O'Toole made
good Manager Clarke and Owner
Dreyfuss of Pittsburgh are content. They
but his 1912 work speaks large for a
great 1913 season.
Sy ColOgy played a winning hand
against OTOole last year. Had he Joined
the Pirates minus the blatant publicity
the chances are his record would have
fans to build great hopes upon for 1913.
Too much boosting proved knock to
O'Toole. The efforts of scribes to Guido
each other in lauding the youngster, who
oFnof hp
than if they had dipped their pens in
vitriol. That So. 500 check was the blow
that killed O'Toole. Marty was press
ACCENTED to death. Only a pitching aver
age OF LOCO would have satisfied the
fans-and probably they would have
growled II every game was not shut
out.
Figures Tell.
Secretary John Heydler in 1912 made
two tables Of National Leageu pitchers
One showed games won and lost The
other the runs per game for which each
pitcher was responsible. In the first list
OToole stood twenty-seventh, having
won fifteen and lost seventeen games. In
the second he ranked eleventh, ahead Of
Camnitz, Alexander. Cheney. Adams.
Suggs, Richie. Lavender, Moore. Ruel-
bach, Brennan. Perdue and Harmon
OToole's opponents made no runs but
In Heydier's list he is responsible for but
S3. an average of 2.12 per game. He was
hit 1877 times, walked 159 batters and
famed $50, made two wild pitches and
hit two batters.
Over-anxiety to make good. because of
the press-agenting and the high price he
Brought, bone-headed base running by
Pittsburgh. lack of timely hitting and
the fact that every club saved its stars to
pitch against him-these things initiated
against O'Toole
To illustrate: July he opposed Lay
ender, and for eleven innings not a run
scored. Pittsburgh made six his the
Cubs five. In the twelfth, Schultz hit
fly over Donlin's head. The ball rolled
through a gate. opened for the first time
since Forbes Field was built, and Schultz
scored.
June II O'Toole opposed Marquard and
lost 81 in eleven innings Pittsburgh out.
tributing two doubles and single. The
papers declared ''bone-headed'' base run
ming defeated OTOole.
July 10 MarQuard again beat him. 81
New York made four hits Pittsburgh
ten. The winning run was questionable,
and the game was protested without
avail.
Records show O'Toole pitched splendid
ly. He should have won 50 per cent of
his games. His support was often lurid,
there was little hitting behind him and he
constantly faced the pitching class of the
league.
Clarke was criticised for using O,Toole
against stars like Mathewson Marquard,
Cheney and Lavender. but Martyrs work
satisfied the manager that, with a little
hitting and the thought of that SO 800
check dimmed by time, Pittsburgh will
have one Of the games, greatest pitchers
in O'Toole this season.