The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-20
REDS SHOW CLASS
IN ALL BRANCHES
Herzog's Men Hit Fast Pace
by Steady, Aggressive
Headwork and Consistent
Work of Pitchers.
BY c. II. ZUSER.

CINCINNATI, O., May 2O.-f it's
troue that the world loves winner,
the Reds must be enjoying a large
amount of affection just at present, for
not in many years has the local team
developed such a winning spirit as 1t
is showing at present. This assertion
does not refer to the number Of games
won recently, but is based on the
class of performance the men of Her
Zog have been giving, both in the
games that have been won and those
that the other fellows have COPIED.
Manager Herzog has evidently i'm
pressed the members of the team with
two highly important facts-that they
are real ball players. and that there is
an opportunity in every second of play
to put something over on the enemy
and that's just what his ASSISTANTS are
doing from the time the gong rings for
the start until the last man has been
retired. In but few of the defeats they
have suffered this year have the Reds
been beaten by One-sided scores. The
majority of their defeats have been
nose-finishes for the other fellows,
showing that the team has been pretty
nearly as good in all it's contests as
the teams against which it has been
playing. And they're showing higher
grade of play now than at any time
his season.
Thought Pitchers Weak.
Before the present season opened 1t
was thought that the Reds were bit
wobbly in the pitching department.
Here the season is a month old, and
the hurting is getting better all the
time. The Reds pitchers have more
shut-outs to their credit so far this
year than the hurlers of any other
team. The feat of putting over six
shut-Outs-three against ST Louis and
three against BostOn-in nine consec-
utive games, comes pretty near being
record While Manager Herzog has
been depending mainly on Benton,
Tingling and Ames for work in the
box. he has two exceedingly good re-
serves in Douglass and Davenport,
with Adams, Lear and Ingersoll trio
OF classy second reserves.
These youngsters will get better as
the season advances, so that if one OF
the elder men should stumble, there
will be an equally good substitute to
send into the breach And what is
true of the pitching department in the
way of substitutes goes for every other
position, so far as this team is con-
cerned
Stacks Up Well.
We've seen all the teams now ex-
cept the Phillies and the BroOklynS,
and there has not been such great
difference between any of the others
and the Reds to justify the early sea
son predictions that Herzog's men
were destined for a lowly finish. The
kind Of baseball the Reds have been
playing has not been surpassed by the
PittSburgs. the ChicagOs or the New
IOrks-that is. so far as intelligent eff
fort and aggresSiVencss are concerned.
OF course, the Reds are not as smooth
running a machine as they will be
later on. But they've improved a lot
since opening day, and they'll show
moro IMPROVEMENT as they go along,
for Improvement is HerzOgS middle
name. It remains to be seen how the
team stacks up against the rejuven-
ated BroOklyns. who are guests here
next Sunday. and the Pittsburgs on
their return on May 31-the last Sun
day game previous to the teams first
trim East