Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-25
CONTROL
RUDOLPH'S SECRET
Established Wonderful Record
in Recent Game at Pitts
burgh Park.
GOSSIP OF MAJOR STARS

How George Stallings's pitchers get
by through the wear and tear of iron
man performances is shown by q re-
cent pitching record by Rudolph. The
clever box artist pitched only four
teen called balls in the entire game
against Pittsburgh. This saves the
pitchers arm and shows how perfect
his control is.
Dick Rudolph is the oldest of the
Boston Braves apparently three tire
less twiEers. Bill James the young
est. Rudolph now Is twenty-five years
old, but his twenty-sixth birthday
soon will arrive he being due to cele-
brate 1t tomorrow. George Tyler will
be twenty five on December IA next,
while James was twenty-five on
March IL, last Rudolph was born
in New York, Tyler in Derry, Rock
ingham county, N. H., and James in
Iowa Hill, Placer county. Cal. Ru-
dolph and Tyler both broke into the
National the same season-1910-
while James did not reach the parent
body until 1913.
Rudolph Advanced to fast company
from the Toronto club, Tyler from
Lowell and James from Seattle. Mel
WQlfgang, from the White Sox, was
teammate of Tyler's the last sea-
son he was in the juniors. while as
ISOLATED with James on the Seattle
club in 1912 were Bert Whaling and
Leslie Mann, both now with the
Braves, and Schneider, 1914 Red
leg. -
The fact that Coombs has pitched
several exhibition games for the Ath-
letics against minor league clubs
shows that the great twirler is grad
ually getting back to form. He has
not started in an American League
game yet, and there is no need of him
doing so as long as the Mackmen con-
tinue to hold their big lead. But in
the event of an apparent slump
Coombs will be ready to get in and
do his share, and pending this he is
improving all the time. And if the
slump does not come it is quite UNI
likely that Coombs will be asked to
pitch any championship games until
the Athletics have actually cinched
the American League pennant. Then
there would be no danger in allowing
the pitcher to demonstrate just how
far he has come back.
It was bound to come. The sound of
the hammer bouncing off the already
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coming from New York, where last
year he was hailed as the most peer
less of all peerless leaders. Just a few
days ago one New York writer indited
column roast of Chance, which he
began in this way: "As a baseball
manager Frank Chance has been
greatly overrated," and ending with
these words, IF team were recruited
from the best men that Chance has
placed the N. G. stamp upon that
team probably would give the Ath-
letics fight all the way, and it would
be perfectly able atIa1l times to wal
lop Chances regular team at least
seven times in every ten attempts"
What Johnson has done in the box
this year furnishes a curious contrast
with the work of Mathewson. After
the great record the big Washington
twirler had made for himself last year
there was every indication that this
season would see him in the zenith OF
his glory. Predictions were freely
made that Johnson would establish
an entirely new pitching record for
big league baseball, excelling any
thing the notable stars of the past
had done. His form had been superb
in the latter part of last season. His
feats on the diamond included, among
other things, new big league record
for consecutive innings in which OPP
posing teams had failed to score off
any individual pitcher.
Manager Herzog. of the Reds,
seems to have solved the problem of
what to do with Won Kolnitz. In his
work at third base he has shown well
and there Is talk that he may win the
job from Bert Niehoff.